Recycling State lawmakers give chemical recycling a...resource-recycling.com - Colin Staub Ohio lawmakers recently passed a bill codifying a number of definitions related to chemical recycling. | Paul Brady Photography/Shutterstock The sixth- …
Plastic CEO responds to concerns over impacts of plastic...resource-recycling.com - Jared Paben Some readers challenged the environmental benefit of Arqlite’s plastic gravel product. | Via Arqlite’s Instagram page. A startup won money and media …
Plastic Reclaimer gets food-contact nod for OceanBound...resource-recycling.com - Jared Paben As of early this year, Envision Plastics was on track to meet its goal of recycling 10 million pounds of OceanBound plastic over two years. | …
Recycling Survey: Americans continue to recycle despite...resource-recycling.com - Colin Staub A Carton Council survey found 44% of respondents simply don’t believe their recyclables are being recycled. | siam.pukkato/Shutterstock Industry-wide …
Plastic Life in plastic, not fantastic: reducing waste in our oceans - CSIROscopecsiro.au - By Nikki Galovic This July saw millions of people get involved in Plastic Free July. Plastic Free July is a global movement that encourages people to be part of the …
Plastic Bags banned: South Australia to ditch plastic in cafe and retail trial - SmartCompanysmartcompany.com.au - Matthew Elmas Plastic straws, single-use coffee cups and plastic bags of all types will no longer be supplied in select areas within South Australia under a state …
Plastic UTS’s plastic free food court might just be a world firstthefifthestate.com.au The University of Technology Sydney’s newest food court has opened for business without a single piece of plastic on the menu. Patrons are encouraged …
Recycling Data Corner: What accounts for the higher cost of PCR? - Resource Recycling Newsresource-recycling.com Historically, companies have used post-consumer resin (PCR) because it was a lower cost feedstock than virgin. In recent years, however, pricing for …
Indonesia's fiber import rules become more...resource-recycling.com - Colin Staub Indonesia’s government has been developing more rigorous import restrictions for recovered fiber for the past several months. | Unureanu Catalina …
Plastic The ChemCycling Industry Unleashes The Armadabioplasticsnews.com - By Axel Barrett The following is based on an article published in the French newspaper “Les Echos”. The most frequent form of recycling is physical recycling. Plastic …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRecycling Selecta UK and Veolia launches new SelectaGreen Cup Recycling Service for workplace and ‘on the go' | RISI Technology Channelsrisiinfo.com LONDON, Aug. 14, 2019 (Press Release) -Selecta UK LTD (“Selecta UK”), a group company of Selecta AG, Europe’s leading route-based unattended …
Plastic Is Boston Consulting Group Lobbying for BASF Chemcycling?bioplasticsnews.com - By Axel Barrett We found two articles promoting Chemcycling. We leave the conclusions to you if Boston Consulting Group lobbies for BASF‘ Chemcycling….But then …
Thailand Promotes Itself as Bioplastic Basebioplasticsnews.com - By Axel Barrett Speaking to PlasticsToday, Plastics Institute of Thailand Executive Director Dr. Kriengsak Wongpromrat said that Thailand produced around 17 million …
Starbucks Starbucks and sustainability: Current and future packaging effortspackaging-gateway.com - Deborah Williams Earlier this year, Starbucks and UK environmental charity Hubbub launched the first-ever reusable cup trial at Gatwick Airport in a campaign they …
Recycling Commentary: Recycling bins are for recyclables, not junkchannelnewsasia.com - Nazurah Razali SINGAPORE: In a move to help Singapore residents recycle regularly, the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced last week that 18,000 households …
Plastic Commentary: We are on the cusp of a plastic recycling revolutionchannelnewsasia.com DENVER, Colorado: Minster for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli highlighted in Parliament in early August that while 60 per cent …
Halt use of styrofoam boxes for takeawaystodayonline.com - kenneth.cjw Chua Chye Wah16 hours 43 min agoNot too long ago, news that several restaurant and cafe chains would stop providing s
Bamboo 'Keep your hands off' bamboo coffee cups, German consumer group warnsDW News - Darko Janjevic Makers of bamboo cups claim their products are reusable and ecologically friendly. German consumer group Stiftung Warentest tested 12 brands of …
Composting MinnPost’s illustrated guide to municipal composting | MinnPostminnpost.com - Greta Kaul Composting is the talk of lots of Minnesota towns these days, as dozens have adopted programs to collect residents’ table scraps and tissues and turn …
Sustainability sells: Woolworths to launch garden collectables next month - Inside FMCGinsidefmcg.com.au - Ruth Hogan Just five weeks after Woolworths introduced shoppers to Lion King Ooshies, the supermarket giant is looking towards the next collectables campaign to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCircular Economy Scientists redesigning materials for circular economysustainabilitymatters.net.au Materials scientists from Deakin University are working on several projects to help solve the global waste and recycling crisis. The projects, …
Opinion This is crunch point for our oceans: let’s do the right thingThe Guardian - Gillian AndersonThere are whales alive in the Arctic today that were born before Moby-Dick was published in 1851. Despite this extraordinary fact, humans kill about 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises every year –
Environment New plastic pollution formed by fire looks like rocksNational Geographic - Madeleine StonePieces of plastic that are gray, round, and resembling rocks and pebbles are hiding in plain sight on the beaches of southern England. On the sandy embayments rimming the southwestern English coastline,
Plastic So...Why Is It Raining Plastic in the Rocky Mountains?Popular Mechanics - By David GrossmanPlastic is so commonplace in modern society that even protected natural areas are being inundated with it. When U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers were taking samples high up in the Rocky Mountains,
Recycling 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?The Guardian - Oliver Franklin-WallisWestminster council sent 82% of all household waste – including that put in recycling bins – for incineration in 2017/18 One of the UK’s largest waste companies, attempted to ship used nappies abroad consignments
IKEA Ikea to begin removing plastic disposables from restaurants globallyedie.net Ikea has unveiled a new range of plastic-free disposable food service products, which will enable it to begin removing single-use-plastics from its …
Recycling Ecovia food summit asks adopters to ‘pay it forward’packagingnews.co.uk - Waqas Qureshi Ecovia Intelligence has hosted its latest edition of The Sustainable Foods Summit, which took place recently in Amsterdam.This story continues at …
Why the waste export ban should include textiles - Inside Retailinsideretail.com.au - Adrian Jones The Prime Minister’s recent announcement of a $20 million fund to grow Australia’s recycling industry and ban the export of plastic, paper, glass and …
SA names first plastic-free precinctsinsideretail.com.au - AAP Adelaide’s first three retail precincts to go plastic-free have been named with the South Australian government declaring now is the time to remove …
Plastic A crude response to the issueaumanufacturing.com.au - By Brent Balinski One possible remedy to a world drowning in plastic has been under development since 2005. Brent Balinski speaks to Licella. The Catalytic Hydrothermal …
