cardboard recycling News
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NPR Here & Now Interviews NRC President, Bob Gedert
Online Retail’s Having A Good Year. So Is Cardboard. On August 19, 2016 the NPR program Here & Now interviewed Bob Gedert of the National Recycling Coalition about what the boom in online retail means for cardboard recycling. Click Here to Listen to the Interview ...
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U.S. Paper Industry Tallies High Recycling Rate in 2022
PAPER RECYCLING RATE WAS NEARLY 68%. CARDBOARD RECYCLING RATE WAS MORE THAN 93%. WASHINGTON — The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today announced that nearly 68% of paper consumed in the United States (67.9%) was recycled in 2022. The paper recycling rate held approximately steady to the 2021 rate and has remained consistently high. In fact, the paper ...
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Makron to Deliver a New Production Line for Asphalt Additives to Lithuania
Makron will deliver a new production line to Lithuania-based Antrocelas, a major European asphalt additive manufacturer. Antrocelas produces asphalt additive from recycled cardboard and paper. Adding recycled cellulose fiber to bitumen results in stone mastic asphalt (SMA) that is more resistant to humidity, fluctuations in temperature, and wear and tear. The planned Makron production line ...
By Makron
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New Cardboard Baler Video Released!
Harmony has spent a lot of time recently promoting the need to recycle cardboard and shrink wrap in urban and confined operating areas. Business owners and building managers understand how recycling cardboard and shrink wrap: creates a safe work environment saves valuable employee time generates an additional source of revenue keeps cardboard out of the waste stream, making our world a ...
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Bromsgrove banks more with Smurfit Kappa Recycling
Bromsgrove District Council has teamed up with Smurfit Kappa Recycling to introduce five further cardboard and paper banks at sites across the District, making the reprocessor the sole provider of paper banks in Bromsgrove. Smurfit Kappa Recycling has been providing the Council with recycling solutions for more than a decade and the recent expansion of facilities is expected to result in tonnages ...
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Space-saving space cardboard box disposal
Special shredder reduces cardboard volume to a fraction of its size, making it more compact... Light, easy to use and, most importantly, fully recyclable – cardboard boxes are becoming increasingly popular as packaging material The members of the Corrugated Cardboard Industry Association (Verband der Wellpappen-Industrie) alone sold around 1.9 billion square meters in the first quarter ...
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Space-saving cardboard box disposal
Light, easy to use and, most importantly, fully recyclable – cardboard boxes are becoming increasingly popular as packaging material The members of the Corrugated Cardboard Industry Association (Verband der Wellpappen-Industrie) alone sold around 1.9 billion square meters in the first quarter of 2017. However, recycling used cardboard boxes can be problematic, not least because the folded ...
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Paper and Cardboard Recycling Industry Launches New Initiative to Help Councils Improve Quality of Recycling in a Changing Market
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has today announced the formal launch of OUR PAPER, a new programme to support councils in improving the quality and quantity of paper and card separately collected for recycling. OUR PAPER is an initiative that promotes the value of paper that local councils collect on behalf of the public, a resource that generates income from our recycling services. ...
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Corrugated Recycling and Landfill Prevention
The Confederation of Paper Industries is pleased to announce the release of its new fact sheet, “Corrugated Recycling & Landfill Prevention”. The release adds to CPI’s array of 18 existing fact sheets, and compliments its two established corrugated information publications, “A Case for Corrugated” and “Corrugated: Key Facts”. The consumer-focussed fact sheet explores the place of corrugated ...
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Efficient volume reduction of cardboard boxes with our EKZ1800
Currently 70% of all materials such as cardboard, paper and cardboard are recycled. According to the German Packaging Act (VerpackG), even 90% of it should be recycled by 2022 (source: VerpackG §16, paragraph 2). This makes the carton an environmentally friendly packaging solution. Paper and cardboard are valuable raw materials that play a major role in recycling and waste management. ...
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Balers shown to cut company waste management costs by up to 80%
In a move designed to help businesses respond to the 20% increase in the standard rate of tax from £40 to £48 for each tonne of waste sent to landfill, effective 1 April 2010 and announced in this week’s Budget, waste solutions company Mil-tek is launching a “free, no strings attached” two-week baler trial for companies of all sizes. The government now plans to raise landfill tax to £80 per ...
By Mil-tek
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Data centre equipment specialist opts to bale with Riverside
Techbuyer – a global leader in the purchase, refurbishment and sale of IT equipment – has recently invested in a waste baler from Riverside Waste Machinery, in an effort to continually reduce the amount of waste material it sends to landfill. The RWM500 mill size machine supplied by the Boroughbridge-based provider is now being used to bale cardboard, which is then recycled. Tom ...
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PAPER RECYCLER CREATES LOCAL AUTHORITY ROLE
PAPER RECYCLER CREATES LOCAL AUTHORITY ROLE 03 June 2010 – Smurfit Kappa Recycling, one of the largest recyclers of paper and card in the UK, has appointed Ian Halson to the new role of local authorities business development manager. Ian Halson brings many years’ experience of paper recycling in the local authority sector to Smurfit Kappa Recycling. He joins from Abitibi ...
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OBC baling equipment exhibits at PACK EXPO 2013
As the OBC brand continues to gain national awareness, representatives recently exhibited at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013 on September 23-25 to demonstrate their recycling equipment solutions. With more than 27,500 processing and packaging professionals in attendance, this proved to be a tremendous opportunity to create additional exposure among this important audience. Packaging generates recycling ...
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EPA signs agreement with Southampton hospital to enhance its environmental practices (NY)
Long Island’s Southampton Hospital has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enhance the hospital’s environmental practices. The hospital has pledged to eliminate mercury, reduce and recycle solid waste, conserve energy and water, and establish policies for purchasing green products. “Doctors take an oath ‘to do no harm’ ...
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WRAP survey shows positivity for recovered paper and plastic UK-China exports
Chinese recovered paper and plastic imports from the UK are looking more positive according to a survey commissioned by the Waste & Resources Action Programme. The China Market Sentiment survey is the first of its kind conducted among Chinese reprocessors. WRAP questioned 104 reprocessors for each material from December 2008 to January 2009 after the sharp fall in prices. WRAP director of ...
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Tis the season to be aware of recycling
A staggering 300,000 tonnes of card is used in UK households during the festive season Card packaging used at Christmas could cover Big Ben almost 260,000 times Recycling charity is urging people to recycle as much card and paper as they can this Christmas The UK is estimated to use almost 300,000 tonnes of card packaging at Christmas, according to leading recycling campaign Recycle Now ...
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What Are Good Balers For Baling Cardboard?
The cardboard recycling industry is booming and many people have become interested in it. If you want to open your own recycling facility, you need to purchase the right materials and machines. People who are new to this industry may not understand the many options available to them and often make the wrong decisions. This can have a negative impact on your business, so you need to make the ...
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Kernic Systems New Vertical Balers Lineup
Reliability and Health & Safety are trademarks of a Bramidan Vertical Baler. All machines meet and exceed all Federal and Local Standards (ANSI Z245.5, UL and CSA compliant and pre-evaluated for Ontario PSR) Bramidan, based out of Denmark, with U.S. operations in Illinois, says the move is meant to expand on their already strong North American presence. Kernic Systems, with 40 years of ...
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M&S announces local authority recycling partnerships
High-street retailer M&S has announced four recycling partnerships with UK local authorities to help councils collect an additional 60,000 tonnes of recyclable material per year by 2015. The announcement comes as part of the M&S Plan A eco-initiative and is set to significantly increase kerbside recycling in the four partnership areas. The first partnership is with Somerset County ...
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