Adina Renee Adler, ISRI’s senior director of international relations, told Resource Recycling “all scrap shipments from all supplier countries (not just the United States) must be inspected before shipment.” With CCIC suspended, ISRI member companies have been left with no access to pre-shipment …
ACC wants to hit 100 percent recovery for plastic packaging
Hitting 100 percent recovery will require major movement on the part of the wider plastics industry. For instance, the U.S. plastic bottle recycling rate was 29.7 percent in 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. That represented a decrease of 1.4 percentage points from the year before.
Put the wrong items in recycling bin? You could be fined if you live in Marion County
Residents who fail to follow Marion County’s strict new recycling rules could be slapped with a fine of as much as $15.45 per pickup. “We’re going to monitor everybody a lot more closely,” said Art Kuenzi, manager of Suburban Garbage Service, speaking on behalf of the Mid-Valley Garbage & Recycling …
Niles To Roll Out Free Textile Recycling Program
Village trustees signed a contract with Great Lakes Recycling, which runs Simple Recycling, at their April 24 board meeting. The contract is expected to earn the village $900 in direct revenue and save Niles taxpayers nearly $28,000 by diverting nearly 600 tons of trash from landfills each year.
Single hauler, required recycling favored as trustees talk trash
After years of discussion, Carbondale’s Board of Trustees seem poised to get directly involved in municipal waste diversion with the goal of increasing …
Cartoon Quickdraw: The Pensacola recycling lie!
Like a great frog and environmentalist once said, “It ain’t easy being green.” Especially if you lie to taxpayers about it. Under Mayor Ashton Hayward’s watch, the city of Pensacola has been lying to citizens by encouraging them to recycle, billing them for recycling collection services, and then dumping the …
Shaw Brothers Co. Inc., Recycling Company Opening in Salem
WSLM reports, the project is headed by Eugene and Denise Hsiao, who own Shaw Brothers Co., Inc., a recycling company in New Albany that serves …
Cops Sift Through Mounds of Recycling in Search of Body of NYC Baby Thrown Out in …
Detectives began sifting through mounds of waste in a Brooklyn recycling plant Wednesday in search of the body of a baby they believe a woman …
Blocks put on Sandycroft recycling site after fire
Environmental officials have stopped further work from being carried out at a Flintshire recycling plant following a big fire. Firefighters spent two days last week tackling a plastics blaze at Factory Road, Sandycroft. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said the decision was taken after “officers found that the …