paper waste collection Articles
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Americans are recycling more paper than ever
Americans are recycling paper at an all-time high, recapturing more than 300 pounds per person each year. That's about half the paper produced in the United States. In addition to improvements in the tactics of waste paper collection, recycling is gaining from China's suddenly ravenous appetite for U.S. scrap paper. Its hunger for recycled paper is fueled by its own shortage of wood pulp and a ...
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A decision support system for waste collection management and its potential improvement with Radio–Frequency Identification Technology (RFID)
Due to vigorous globalisation and product proliferation in recent years, more waste has been produced by the soaring manufacturing activities. This has contributed to the significant need for an efficient waste management system to ensure, with all efforts, the waste is properly treated for recycling or disposed. This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) framework, based on Constraint ...
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The performance of Spanish solid waste collection
In this paper we examine street cleaning and waste collection services in Spanish municipalities with a population exceeding 50 000. The purpose is to identify factors that influence the efficiency of these services. Three input variables (staff, vehicles and containers) and four outputs variables (tonnage, collection points, collection point density and kilometres of surface area washing) are ...
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The Circular Economy and Paper Pulp Molding: A Sustainable Path Forward
The concept of a circular economy has gained prominence as a sustainable alternative to the traditional linear economic model of “take, make, dispose.” At the heart of the circular economy is the idea of keeping resources in use for as long as possible, minimizing waste and promoting recycling and reusability. One remarkable innovation that aligns perfectly with this concept is paper pulp ...
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Paper Recycling - Case Study
The problem: The UK is the largest producer of wallpaper worldwide. The British wallpaper industry is situated around Darwen, Blackburn. Many of the wallpaper mills are operated in crowded old factory buildings. Once a leading wallpaper manufacturer Crown Wallpaper (also known as the Crown Wallpaper Company) was an agglomeration of wallpaper manufacturers in the United Kingdom since 1899. A ...
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The Best Way To Easily Make Egg Trays From Recycled Paper
It is actually common practice for companies that produce egg trays to make use of recycled paper as far as possible. It is not necessarily only an environmentally friendly method of doing business. It is also an expense-efficient way to purchase this material. You may possibly not realize how difficult it is to deliver these appliances with sufficient pulp in order to make the trays. When you ...
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