recycling stream News
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ERCC to hold workshop at E-Scrap 2016
This workshop, hosted by the Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse (ERCC), will discuss the latest successes and challenges under the implementation of the 25 state electronics recycling laws (and now DC). Workshop participants will hear about the latest updates to the laws from this year, such as those in Minnesota, and discuss what lessons can be drawn from them. The workshop will ...
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End of Exemption on Toxic Additives to Enter Recycling Streams in The EU
Environmental health groups celebrate the end to EU allowance for banned flame retardant chemicals to enter recycling streams and new products The European Union (EU) has taken an important step towards cleaning up its recycling; it will no longer allow materials containing a class of toxic, globally banned flame retardants known as PBDEs to be recycled. Researchers had revealed that across ...
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GPI Voices Support for California Assembly Bill 815 - Improved Glass Recycling through Dual Stream Collection Programs
GPI is pleased to announce our strong support for Assembly Bill 815, introduced by California Assembly Member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, which incentivizes communities and recyclers to adopt “dual stream” recycling systems. The legislation signals a growing national interest in separation of recyclables at the curb, in recognition that dual stream recycling is superior in recovering ...
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H2O in refinery CCR unit recycle streams
On-line monitoring of the H2O concentration in the hydrogen recycle streams of continuous catalytic reformer (CCR) units enables refineries to control the chloride level required for optimum catalyst activity, and avoid excess levels of H2O that strip chloride from catalyst surfaces and forms HCl. This HCl can be transported to other downstream catalytic processes in the net hydrogen gas from a ...
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Avery Dennison introduces glass labelling technology to boost recycling yields
At Labelexpo Europe 2015, which was held in Brussels from 29 September until 2 October, Avery Dennison introduced a proprietary labelling technology that allows clear separation of self-adhesive labels from glass pieces thus facilitating clean glass recycling. The removal of self-adhesive labels from one-way glass bottles can be a challenge during the glass recycling process, impacting both the ...
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Updated APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability Unveiled
Increasing supply and enhancing the quality of the plastics recycling stream are two primary goals of an updated resource guide unveiled this week by the leading technical authority on plastics recycling. The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the international trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry, presented the new and improved APR Design® Guide for Plastics ...
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Wastewater Treatment
Lakson completed phase 1 for the wastewater treatment project implementing its intellectual property methodology. The project includes removing oil and grease, recovering products while treating the wash water for reuse, recycling the clean stream for washing purposes extracting suspended solid parts to be valorized producing valuable ...
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WRAP pioneers technique to remove mercury from FPD shred
The Waste & Resources Action Programme is pioneering a technique to recover mercury from LCD flat panel display shred, which can potentially be used for bulk scale commercial recycling. WRAP, currently inviting companies to tender to demonstrate the process that separates high-quality materials from size reduced LCD displays until 1 February, 2010, say in their tender document: “Assessment of ...
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NAPCOR Endorses APR Full Wrap Shrink Label Protocol
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) today endorsed the newly published Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers’ (APR) guidance document pertaining to full wrap shrink sleeve labels for PET bottles, “Sleeve Label Substrate for PET Bottles Critical Guidance Document.” This testing and guidance protocol document is ...
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EPA Administrator to Announce Small Business Award to Nashville, TN based National Recovery Technologies, LLC
On Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 a.m., EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will hold a press call to announce the recipients of the Small Business Innovation Research awards, including Nashville, TN-based National Recovery Technologies, LLC. The company is receiving the award for developing a technology that allows for the automated identification and sorting of rare earth elements in electronic ...
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Recap of the Folly Beach Clean-up and Food Packaging Summit
SPI’s Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Packaging Materials Committee (FDCPMC) recently hosted its Fall 2016 Food Packaging Summit in Charleston, SC. The event kicked off with an effort to give back to our host city, in keeping with SPI’s zero waste mission, by clearing waste from nearby Folly Beach. Twenty-five of our energetic volunteers combed the shore for two hours and removed more than ...
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Recovered material quality is declining, says Aylesford Newsprint
The quality of material collected in the UK is declining according to major paper reprocessor Aylesford Newsprint. Aylesford Newsprint is currently importing 25,000 tonnes of recovered paper each year, which it expects will rise to 50,000 tonnes in the near future. The company says this figure could even top 75,000 tonnes next year, equating to 15 per cent of its feedstock. Opposing reports ...
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From curbside recycling bins to recycling carts – making the move to single stream recycling
What’s a curbside without a traditional-looking curbside recycling container sitting on the edge? With many cities making the switch to single stream recycling and distributing 2-wheeled carts, the curbside container may become a thing of the past. Single stream recycling allows all materials, whether it is paper, plastic or glass to be collected in the same container. Once collected ...
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Liberty Sold to ECP
Global investment firm The Carlyle Group announced on April 1st, that it has agreed to sell Liberty Tire Recycling to ECP, an investor with a decades-long reputation in the environmental and sustainable solutions sector. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. Liberty Tire Changes Ownership Liberty is a premier provider ...
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Innovative recycling demonstration project to launch in oregon
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2019—Responding to the urgent need to improve recycling rates, plastic and packaging makers today launched a 60-day recycling demonstration project in Portland, Ore. The project aims to demonstrate how a wider range of materials can be captured from the curbside recycling stream. The innovative project involves installing a portable secondary sorting system at ...
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Oxo-degradable plastics may not be as `green` as producers claim
Degradable plastics may not be as environmentally friendly as producers believe, finds research by Loughborough University backed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Producers of oxo-degradable plastics regularly tout it as being a solution to the plastic bag litter problem, claiming the plastic is 100% degradable or biodegradable. But Defra’s report asserts that because ...
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AshBritt`s eco friendly initiative for going green
AshBritt’s comprehensive sustainable Going Green Program reduces our organization’s adverse impact on the environment through activities such as reductions in waste generation and in carbon emission. Our long term goal is to reduce the amount of carbon generated as a result of our recovery and restoration operations.Striving for a Green Restoration OperationAshBritt is constantly looking for ...
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ReCommunity Memphis reopens MRF - Converted to single stream
ReCommunity, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., converted its dual stream MRF in Memphis, TN, to a single-stream recycling facility. The largest pure-play recycler in the United States, ReCommunity chose the CP Group to design, manufacture, and install the new equipment in its existing 42,000 sq. ft. building. New system operations began in January. “We are committed to leading the Recovery ...
By The CP Group
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Organisation ‘supporting Britain’s bravest’ turns to UNTHA
Britain’s Bravest Manufacturing Company has invested in a new pallet shredder from UNTHA UK, to enhance the team’s production of materials for the biomass industry. Established in 1919, BBMC – the social enterprise of charity Royal British Legion Industries - has long strived to support the lives of ex-service personnel, but as the years have passed the Aylesford-based company ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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Bunting Extends Its Range with a Shredder Feeder Conveyor
Although not directly aimed at the tyre recycling sector the new shredder feeder conveyor from Bunting might be of interest to recyclers who have issues with metal contamination, or who are also recycling alternate waste streams on site. The new shredder feeder conveyor from Bunting-Redditch combines with either a magnetic separator or metal detector to protect a shredder or granulator from metal ...
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