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Recycling
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Carbios produces bottles from enzymatically recycled plastic
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France – Carbios has announced it has successfully produced the first bottles containing 100 percent recycled Purified Terephthalic Acid (rPTA) from textile waste that contains a high PET content. This result confirms the capacity of its technology to recycle…
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Clean Earth posts big bump in aerosol can recycling
HATBORO, Pennsylvania – Specialty waste processor Clean Earth says its Clean Earth Aerosol Recycling System expects to process 13 million aerosol cans by the end of 2020. That’s an 85 percent increase from the company’s aerosol can recycling in 2015.…
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Montreal borough begins PPE collection
SAINT-LAURENT, Quebec – Residents and employees of Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough will be able to drop off personal protective equipment, including single-use masks and gloves, in new Terracyle boxes that have been set up in municipal buildings. According to the United…
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U.S. labs collaborate on plastic bottles
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico — Los Alamos National Laboratory is partnering with four other U.S. laboratories and four academic institutions in a new program to tackle the problem of plastic pollution. The partnership has been dubbed the BOTTLE Consortium for…
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Researchers working to ‘upcycle’ polymers
US$2.5 million U.S. Dept. of Energy grant is part of $27 million initiative to solve plastic recycling dilemma
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Merlin Plastics joins Polypropylene Recycling Coalition
DELTA, B.C. – Merlin Plastics has joined The Recycling Partnership’s Polypropylene Recycling Coalition. Merlin’s membership in the U.S.-based, industry organization will allow it to bring its 30 plus years of experience in the Canadian and US recycling plastics realm to…
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Label industry creates recycling consortium
With a shared goal of creating a sustainable self-adhesive labeling industry, more than 30 companies from around the world today have established a new consortium to promote recycling. Currently only 52 percent of matrix and liner waste is recycled globally.…
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CleanFarms adds Alberta bag and twine collections sites
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta – As of early October, CleanFarms has added six new collection sites for empty agricultural grain bags and used twine for recycling. This increases the total number of collection locations in the ‘Alberta Ag-plastic. Recycle It!‘ pilot program…
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SWANA releases research on state of plastics recycling
Silver Spring, Maryland – The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has issued a new white paper for SWANA members, State of Plastic Waste Management in the United States and Canada, that gives a timely snapshot of the issue…
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Significant risk of EU missing plastic recycling targets
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has assessed a significant risk that the EU will not meet its plastic packaging recycling targets for 2025 and 2030
