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Columbus, Ohio, Joins CVP
Posted on January 17th, 2012 No commentsThe Curbside Value Partnership (CVP) and the Columbus, Ohio, Office of the Mayor and Department of Public Service have partnered to introduce a new recycling program that will begin this spring.
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Seattle City Council Passes Bill Banning Plastic Bags
Posted on December 20th, 2011 No commentsThe Seattle City Council has unanimously passed Council Bill 117345 banning the use of plastic carry-out bags.
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Got it Covered
Posted on December 14th, 2011 No commentsWith environmental regulations becoming increasingly stringent and budgets continuing to shrink, recycling and other solid waste facilities are looking for innovative solutions for physical plant upgrades. To reduce processing costs and to protect the environment, many recycling plant operators are choosing tension fabric buildings. Tension fabric buildings, or fabric structures, can be a unique and economical method for covering containers of unprocessed material for recycling.
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Unifi to Supply Ford Focus with Recycled Plastic
Posted on December 1st, 2011 No commentsFord Motor has chosen Unifi’s line of Repreve fiber to supply the company with recycled plastic that will be used in the seat fabric for its new Ford Focus Electric. The Repreve line of plastic is made from a hybrid blend of recycled materials.
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CMI Raises Money for Charity
Posted on November 29th, 2011 No commentsThe Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI, www.cancentral.com ) says it raised close to $75,000 through its Great American Can Roundup Industry Challenge, which lasted 108 days and involved 68 can plants in the United States. The facilities involved in the program included the plants and corporate offices of three major American can manufacturers: Rexam, Ball and Crown Holdings. Through the challenge, individual facilities partnered with schools and local organizations to collect and recycle aluminum used beverage cans (UBC)
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World Recycling Forum: Forward Thinking
Posted on November 23rd, 2011 No commentsRussia is both spacious and rich in resources, two circumstances that probably have helped stifle the development of its electronics recycling sector.
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TITECH Enters Brazilian Market
Posted on November 22nd, 2011 No commentsThe equipment company T ITECH , headquartered in Norway, has announced its arrival to the Brazilian market during the 13th FIMAI and SIMAI (Feira e Semin
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Study Finds Nonrecycled Plastics Can Fuel Alternative Energy Industry
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsA new study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University, New York, and sponsored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Washington, D.C., has found that converting the nonrecycled plastics that are currently landfilled each year in the United States to energy using currently available technologies could provide at least enough energy to fuel 6 million cars annually.
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BIR Autumn Roundtables: Plastics Committee Focuses on WEEE
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsThe spotlight was turned on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) during the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Plastics Round-Table in Munich in late October as two guest speakers approached the issue from different angles. Rainer Koehnlechner, owner and managing director of separation specialist at Germany-based Hamos GmbH, explained that it was possible to derive high-purity polymers from mixed WEEE plastics.
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Posted on October 19th, 2011 No commentsInternational Paper Announces Plan to Acquire Temple-Inland Memphis, Tenn.-based International Paper (IP) and Austin, Texas-based Temple-Inland Inc. (TIN) have entered into a definitive merger agreement through which IP will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Temple-Inland for $32 per share in cash, plus the assumption of $600 million in TIN’s year-end debt
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