More Recycling Means More Machines at NPE
More Recycling Means More Machines at NPE Maine Plastics Inc. projects that it will recycle in excess of 350,000 pounds of plastics at NPE2012 in Orlando — or almost three times as much as the 125,000 pounds it recycled at NPE2009 in Chicago. “We have 55 exhibitors running materials through their machines,” said Robert Render, CEO More...
Ocean County Expands Plastics Recycling Program
Ocean County Expands Plastics Recycling Program FROM PLASTIC BUCKETS to old lawn furniture, rigid plastics are the latest addition to Ocean County’s recycling stable. Following a pilot program in Lakewood Township More...
Packaging recycling targets for 2011 met with ease
Packaging recycling targets for 2011 met with ease Packaging producers appear to have met their packaging recycling targets for 2011 with ease, according to provisional data published this week by the Environment More...
Anheuser-Busch InBev closes in on 99% recycling goal
Anheuser-Busch InBev closes in on 99% recycling goal Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) said it is getting closer to meeting its 99% recycling rate goal by the end of this year. By eliminating material losses, improving More...
McDonald´s to test paper cups for hot drinks
McDonald´s to test paper cups for hot drinks McDonald´s Corp. might have found a recyclable replacement for its polystyrene foam beverage cups. About 2,000 of the company´s restaurants, mostly West Coast operations, More...
England’s ‘first’ nappy recycling service to launch
Cheshire West and Chester council is set to become the first local authority in England to offer residents a dedicated weekly kerbside nappy recycling service. The service has been made possible thanks to the UK’s More...
Higher packaging targets confirmed in Budget 2012
Higher packaging targets confirmed in Budget 2012 Higher packaging recycling targets for 2013-17 were confirmed in Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget today, alongside plans to radically shake up the planning system. In More...
Startup Converts Plastic To Oil, And Finds A Niche
Startup Converts Plastic To Oil, And Finds A Niche Only 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A startup company in Niagara Falls More...
Brazil Closed-Loop Recycling Project Targets Agrochemical Bottles
Brazil Closed-Loop Recycling Project Targets Agrochemical Bottles DuPont’s Fusabond modifiers are being used in an award-winning closed-loop recycling process in Brazil called the Virtuous Cycle using Fusabond. Fusabond More...
Recycling of non-bottle rigid plastics soars 72 percent in single year
Recycling of non-bottle rigid plastics soars 72 percent in single year The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has released a new report showing a significant increase in the collection and recycling of non-bottle More...