Only once they have been reused – often many times – do we recycle them into wood chips, animal bedding and other products, or used as biomass fuel.
Recycling app helps residents cut down on contamination
The welcome sign for the Auburn Recycle Center at the Auburn Environmental Services Department’s Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, …
A California environmental group is suing Coke and Pepsi over claims they’re polluting oceans …
Earth Island Institute’s suit claims that product labeling misleads consumers to think recycling is the answer to waste when less than 5% of today’s …
Maine legislation would transfer cost of recycling packaging to producers
As the cost of recycling programs has risen in recent years due to Chinese restrictions on acceptable recyclables, governments in Europe and Canada …
Loop Industries, L’Oréal sign multiyear supply agreement
Loop Industries’ chemical recycling technology depolymerizes PET products into their base building blocks and then purifying and polymerizing them …
China issues additional import quotas
The Bureau of International Recycling, Brussels, has alerted its members that the Solid Waste & Chemicals Management Centre of the Ministry of …
Battery Recycling Technologies – Part 1: Introduction and Recycling Preparation
Batteries which have reached the end of their service lives should be recycled. Batteries contain extremely hazardous components such as mercury, …
Vecoplan announces personnel changes
She brings more than 15 years’ experience in industrial manufacturing industries, including paper, furniture, recycling and waste. Nelson has served …
Spain: Fuel station offers discounts for recycling plastics
Spain: Fuel station offers discounts for recycling plastics … to offer discounts on refuelling and goods at the store in exchange for recycled plastic.
Recycling experts say reducing and reusing needs to be the new normal
Yakima offers curbside yard-waste recycling. But residents who want to recycle cardboard, certain plastics or paper have to pay a monthly subscription …