Recycling long-chain polymers like these is a challenge, even in chemical recycling. The polymers in these super-absorbent plastics look like a fishnet …
The Recycle Bin: The trickiness of recycling aerosol, paint containers in Brunswick
Plastic cans with no residue, but with a recycling triangle, can be recycled. They are otherwise trash, if dry, or hazardous waste, if not dry.
Startups, researchers race in the Wild West of EV battery recycling
Some battery recycling startups claim they can recover roughly 95% of the lithium, cobalt, nickel and other minerals that go into batteries, dramatically …
DANC won’t pursue regional recycling facility; Watertown still considering a single-stream program
Here, a pile of recycled material sits behind the Jefferson County Recycling and Waste Management plant on Route 12. Watertown Daily Times.
Hoover council clears path for new garbage, recycling collection company
Residents no longer would be required to separate their recyclables, but people who want to make a special effort to recycle could save those items to …
Chico Scrap Metal will not be recycling CRV products starting Friday
Chico’s last CRV recycling center to close Friday as the business is in a lawsuit with the City of Chico. Posted: Aug 2, 2021 7:13 PM. Posted By: …
In California, That Recycling Symbol Doesn’t Always Mean What You Think It Does
At least 85% of single-use plastic items don’t get recycled, even if they carry the familiar triangular symbol. A California bill would restrict which plastics …
People dumping garbage in recycling bin could lead to end of service for Mill Street Recycling Center
The Recycling Center is operated by the city of Elizabethton’s Street and Sanitation Division, but it is serviced by the Carter County Landfill. Carter …
Possible delays in recycling pick-up in Camden County
The county’s recycling collection contractor, Waste Management, has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases causing a chance for a one-day delay.
Lewis County’s ‘Recycle Reset’ Deemed a Success
At the county’s transfer stations, residents have been newly required to sort their own recycling and haven’t been able to recycle plastics.