recycling material News
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Targets Needed if Export Ban Goes Ahead
Recyclers demand recycled content targets as EU Commission seeks to keep recycling exports in Europe As Europe heads towards a waste export ban, recyclers are concerned that there are no targets driving the use of recycled materials. As a result, European recyclers are urging EU decisionmakers to introduce mandatory targets for recycled materials in new products as proposed EU waste shipment ...
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Sculptor creates recycled Eco Dragon
Watch out it may breathe on you! This intriguing sculpture has been produced by sculptor Chris Pilmore. It is made from 99% recyclable materials “apart from the nuts and the bolts”. The materials are mainly collected from a farm. Tractor inner tubes and old bike tyres cover a frame of reclaimed plywood and the wings are made from old pond liners. Pilmore said: “Hopefully it will make people ...
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REI to Exhibit at the Tennessee Recycling Coalition Conference
REI will be exhibiting at the Tennessee Recycling Coalition Conference beginning next week. Starting on Monday February 10th and Ending on Wednesday around 12:00pm. Last year we made a lot of new friends. We are looking forward to another great turn out. If you are attending please stop by our booth and visit with Joey Walls or John Duke. Ask them how you can increase your return on recycling ...
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Recycling Manual from Qatar
As part of initiatives of the Qatari Public Works Authority (Ashghal) to use recycled materials in projects, Ashghal Research and Development Centre run by the Quality and Safety Department has prepared the Ashghal Recycling Manual, the first of its kind in the region. Qatari Guide to Recycling This manual is the result of three years of research, expertise, field tests and pilot projects ...
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Minister reminded: quality recycling strengthens market
A rallying call for continued support for quality recycling collections has gone out to Welsh Recycling Minister Jane Davidson. In an open letter to the Minister, Campaign for Real Recycling chairman Mal Williams, asked Davidson to resist the pressures of the credit crunch and back quality materials. “There is still a healthy and enduring UK market for good recyclable material,” he said. ...
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Giant teach-in to focus the nation on global warming
Global warming is being explored at more than 1,500 universities, colleges and high schools across the country this week in what organizers are calling the largest teach-in in American history. The problems posed by Earth's warming climate and the best possible solutions are the subject of classes, seminars, panels, debates, teleconferences, workshops, roundtable discussions, expos, concerts and ...
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Prices for recyclable materials stable but fragile
Prices for recyclables are stabilising although the market remains fragile, according to industry surveys conducted this week. About 200 organisations, including local authorities, waste management companies, reprocessors and exporters were surveyed by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to determine market confidence and prices ahead of Christmas. This follows a downturn in demand for ...
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Japanese paper industry in recycling scandal
Two major players in the Japanese paper industry have been left with egg on their face after admitting they lied about the amount of recycled paper in their products. Several days ago Nippon Paper Group, the second largest paper company in Japan, admitted it had lied about the percentage of recycled material in its products. Oji Paper, the country’s biggest paper company, revealed that it too ...
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IGLU’® for the new Paul Biya Stadium
Paul Biya Stadium (even known as Olembe Stadium) is a sport facility in Yaoundé, in Cameroon, for whose construction, some innovative materials and solutions, such as Iglu’® by Daliform Group, were chosen. With its 60,000 seats, Paul Biya Stadium aims to become the new landmark of the Cameroonian capital. Iglu’® was chosen and used to create ramps, steps, structural ...
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Government plans to boost the quality of recycled materials
Businesses approve of the plans to boost quality of recycled materials. A recent article published on Business Green discussed why businesses are welcoming the government’s plans to boost the quality of recycled materials and in addition the government’s predictions that this new rule could boost the economy by £31m annually. A consultation was announced today by, Resources ...
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Plastics Releases Report On Recycled Materials Used In New Applications
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) today released the Phase II Technology Package report from its New End Market Opportunities (NEMO) Film Recycling Demonstration Project. Phase II demonstrated that recycled materials can be functionally used in structural applications, and proved to be a good, low-cost feedstock for advanced recycling technologies, like chemical recycling. When ...
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Somerset waste partnership inspires proposals for waste recycling (end-use register) bill
The Somerset Waste Partnership has inspired an Early Day Motion to support a Waste Recycling (End-Use Register) Bill. An Early Day Motion is a formal motion submitted for debate in the House of Commons. If the Bill gets through Parliament and is turned into law it could require all local authorities to publish what happens to all the recyclable materials they collect. The SWP published its ...
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Hold your nerve` on recycling, EA chair to tell councils
The Environment Agency (EA) chairman is expected to call on councils to 'hold their nerve' on recycling, during a speech this evening. Lord Chris Smith will highlight the need to maintain public confidence and support for recycling along with quality material outputs. In an address to the Aldersgate Group, a group of environmentally-aware businesses and non-governmental organisations, Smith ...
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REGOM and Zeppelin Systems Sign an Agreement
REGOM creates, produces, implements, and sells tyre sorting machines all around the world. It also develops software for the management of sorting activities and promotes the reuse of tyres. This initiative comes at a time when tyre manufacturers are looking to recycle materials for their own use, and one of the criteria that may help them develop solutions is the sorting of tyres at the ...
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Green Roads for Leicester
Leicester County road improvements are using new environmentally friendly techniques Leicestershire Builds Greener Highways Leicestershire's roads are getting greener and cleaner thanks to the use of recycled materials and carbon friendly techniques to resurface highways. In a bid to be more environmentally friendly, Leicestershire County Council has used around 5000 recycled tyres during the ...
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EPA promotes recycling materials into fuel
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the recycling of certain petroleum secondary materials into fuel. This effort, which will revise the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulations, is expected to help petroleum refineries reduce waste and capture more energy from each barrel of oil by allowing for the recycling of these materials when they are used at a petroleum ...
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Sulo Acquires San Sac Group
Sulo, a global player headquartered in France, has acquired San Sac Group from Accent Equity. Sulo is a leading international manufacturer of bins, underground and semi-underground systems for collection and separation of recyclable materials. Sulo is owned by Latour Capital, a private equity fund that makes investments in growth companies based in France and other European companies. ...
By Orwak AB
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ISO14001:2004 Registration Success!
As of February 9th 2011, Container Components Europe Limited were successfully registered with ISO14001:2004. This is certification of our environmental management standards and helps our organisation to: minimise how our operations (processes etc.)negatively affect the environment, comply with applicable laws, regulations & other environmentally oriented requirements, and continually ...
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The Film Grabber, new development from Bollegraaf Recycling Machinery
Single-stream processing of recyclable materials is becoming increasingly common in the recycling industry worldwide. This means that all recyclable materials are put together in plastic bags and are sorted by a single sorting installation. The bags are opened by a bag opener, but the foil of these bags disrupts the subsequent sorting process. Therefore, the foil has to be removed at the ...
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Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Workshop to Review Case Studies on Reporting Byproducts/Recycled Materials
Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (EST) Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) and B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), affiliates of The Acta Group, L.L.C., have organized a workshop with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review reporting obligations for byproducts and recycled materials under the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule. The workshop will ...
By Acta Group
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