recycling management News
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M&S `closes the loop` with food-grade recycled plastic
For the first time, Marks & Spencer this week will sell food packaged with plastic recycled in Britain. The retailer has worked with plastic recycling plant Closed Loop Recycling and packaging supplier Reynolds to supply it with food-grade recycled plastic. M&S’ salad boxes are the final step in a project to create a closed-loop for plastic food packaging in the UK, in which used ...
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BACE revolutionizes paper recycling with the introduction of its export baler
BACE, a global manufacturer of balers and compactors for the recycling industry, has introduced the Export Baler. The Export Baler produces horizontal bales for a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the space as horizontal balers. Its bales require no re-baling -- reducing time, cost, and truck transportation (including drivers, trucks fuel, and re-baling labor) -- because they're the exact ...
By Bace, LLC
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Carpet Recycling UK Conference: Design for Recycling and the Circular Economy
Catch all the action at Carpet Recycling UK’s 2019 Annual Conference and Awards Event which opens at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium, Birmingham on Thursday July 18th. Taking the theme of ‘Design for Recycling and the Circular Economy’, this year’s event will cover innovations in carpet reuse and recycling techniques, as well as new developments in circular carpet design. The ...
By Axion Group
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UNTHA XR shredder gears Fortress up for 2018 growth
It’s only three months since the official opening of Fortress Recycling and Resource Management’s new £5m facility in Warwick. But already the team has successfully processed 6250 tonnes of ‘waste’, thanks to an UNTHA XR3000C shredder at the front-end of a sophisticated processing line. And now, all eyes are on ‘what’s next’ for the system, as the ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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Axion welcomes ‘all-in’ Deposit Return Scheme proposal
Proposals for an ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks containers have been welcomed by Axion as a positive move to encourage people to recycle more and associate a value with waste plastic and other materials. Including cans and bottles made from plastics, aluminium, steel and glass would also help to increase capture of ‘recycling on the go’ materials, ...
By Axion Group
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Register Now for the 2017 APR Plastics Recycling Educational Webinar Series
As The Voice of Plastics Recycling®, APR consistently seeks to recognize and promote innovations that enhance the recyclability of a new or existing package or container. APR promotes the long-term growth and development of plastics recycling by providing the leadership and tools necessary to support the sustainability of the industry. Innovation drives the growth of recycling, and is ...
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Register Now for the 2017 APR Plastics Recycling Educational Webinar Series
As The Voice of Plastics Recycling®, APR consistently seeks to recognize and promote innovations that enhance the recyclability of a new or existing package or container. APR promotes the long-term growth and development of plastics recycling by providing the leadership and tools necessary to support the sustainability of the industry. Innovation drives the growth of recycling, and is ...
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Report says PET recycling rate increased 28% in 2009
The recycling rate of polyethylene terephthalate increased 28% in 2009 making it the six consecutive year of gains in the United States´ recycling rate. And the 2009 rate increase occurred despite a 4% decrease in the total PET bottles and jars available for recycling, by weight, according to the "2009 Report on Post Consumer PET Container Recycling Activity" -- a collaborative effort of ...
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Aylesford newprint`s chris white to take up plastics recycling role
Aylesford Newsprint's commercial manager Chris White is leaving the paper recycling industry for the plastics recycling sector. After 41 years at Aylesford Newsprint, the well-respected paper expert has accepted an offer to be managing director at a PET recycling firm. Although White was unable to disclose which firm he will be working at, he revealed that it is due to open a 20,000 tonne a ...
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Statement Regarding H.R. 4236
Alexandria, VA –– The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) and its members support recycling and waste reduction programs in national parks and in communities throughout the United States; however, we oppose efforts to ban the sale of bottled water in national parks because this legislation unreasonably targets only bottled water, the healthiest packaged beverage option, and ...
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Lindner at IFAT 2022: Be A Waste Transformer
This year, Austrian recycling pioneer Lindner is highlighting once more the importance of the Circular Economy. Over its many decades, Lindner has developed, produced and installed countless shredders and system solutions – both mobile and stationary – to efficiently process various waste streams. Now more than ever, the focus is on energy efficiency, productivity and the economically ...
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PET Container Recycling Rate up to 29% for 2010
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), and the PET Resin Association (PETRA) announced today the release of the “2010 Report on Post Consumer PET Container Recycling Activity” and a 2010 Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) container recycling rate of 29%. This is the seventh ...
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Recovinyl: PVC recycling reaches a new high in UK and Ireland
The UK and Ireland collected and recycled a total of 143,428 tonnes of waste PVC across all PVC recycling formats in 2019. Within this total, PVC window profiles accounted for 86,057 tonnes, according to latest industry figures. Second only to Germany, the UK’s achievement represents 18.6% of the 771,313 tonnes of waste PVC recycled throughout Europe in 2019 – a new record high and ...
By Axion Group
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Lindner Micromats Helps Unifi, Inc. Transform Plastic Waste into High- Tech Recycled Fiber
Of the 400 million tons of plastics produced worldwide each year, too much still ends up in our waterways and landfills. Unifi, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of high-performance synthetic and recycled fibers, has decided to tackle this global problem. They collect used plastics, primarily post-consumer PET bottles, and transform them into REPREVE®, a high-performance recycled fiber. ...
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Determining the municipality waste fees and way of payment in Japan - Mariusz Grabda
Dr. Eng. Mariusz Grabda is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Environmental Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences, and currently a post-doc fellow in the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials of Tohoku University in Japan. His primary research concerned on utilization of geothermal heat and natural utilization of sewage sludge. In recent years, his ...
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Recycling waste packages in Japan. Construction waste recovery - Mariusz Grabda
Dr. Eng. Mariusz Grabda is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Environmental Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences, and currently a post-doc fellow in the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials of Tohoku University in Japan. His primary research concerned on utilization of geothermal heat and natural utilization of sewage sludge. In recent years, his ...
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US Recycled Plastics Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: US Recycled Plastics Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p01050292/US-Recycled-Plastics-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Plastic US demand to rise 5.9% annually through 2016 US demand for post-consumer recycled plastics is forecast to rise 5.9 percent per year to ...
By ReportLinker
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