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The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) has released an economic study highlighting the impact that the recycling industry has on the state. The report finds that the recycling and reuse industry directly employs 40,000 people in 2,173 recycling and recycling-related businesses. The businesses include municipal and private collection programs, MRFs, brokers, reuse […]
The UK Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has revealed its latest project will be to develop recycled polypropylene (PP) that can be used in food packaging. According to WRAP, the project will aim to reduce the dependence on PP in the manufacture of food packaging. It will also help divert waste from landfill and […]
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) used the recent K 2010 show Dusseldorf, Germany to expose Canadian participants to some of the leading post-use plastic recovery technologies in the world. The CPIA’s three-day “Technology Transfer Mission” involved a tour of plastic recycling exhibitor booths at the show, followed by two days spent touring local municipal […]
Several views on globalization as it concerns the recovered fiber business were offered by presenters at a session titled “One World, Several Markets” at the 2010 European Paper Recycling Conference (EPRC). Richard Getkate of the Netherlands-based CVB EcoLogistics acquired his global viewpoints from having lived in Tanzania and Sri Lanka and having been involved in […]
Most of the plastics that Winnipeggers toss in their recycling bins are sent to China to be remade into fly swatters, dolls and other plastic objects that never get recycled again, a CBC News investigation has learned. City of Winnipeg documents show 82 per cent of plastic waste in 2009 was sold to International Paper […]
SITA UK, a subsidiary of the French waste management firm Suez Environnement, has signed a technology agreement with Cynar Plc to build a facility in the United Kingdom that will recycle end-of-life plastic scrap into diesel fuel. According to a Suez Environnement announcement, the objective is to build 10 plans in the U.K. that will […]
Western Europe has sent millions of tons of recovered fiber to Asia in the past several years in a trading pattern that is being met with resistance by some paper mill operators in Europe. The implications of the new pattern were a topic of discussion at the 2010 European Paper Recycling Conference (EPRC). At a […]
Per Ove Nordstrom, a McKinsey & Co. global basic materials analyst based in Sweden, is forecasting more slow growth for the economies of Western Europe. Nordstrom, who offered the keynote presentation at the 2010 European Paper Recycling Conference (EPRC), is predicting average annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 1.7 percent in the European Union […]