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BASF is Going to Build a Commercial Battery-Recycling, Black-Mass Plant

Jun 24, 2022

Generate Capital Provides Pine Gate Renewables with $500 Million in Strategic Growth Capital and Asset Financing to Expand Utility-Scale Solar

Jun 24, 2022

Innovative Recycling In The Caribbean: Turning Ghost Nets Into Soccer Nets

Jun 24, 2022

This Week in Waste: Top Stories in Waste June 20 – June 24

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Israeli Kibbutz Converts Kitchen Food Waste to Energy On-Site

Jun 07, 2022

How Portland Maine’s Compost Drop Offs Are Working

Jun 22, 2022

NWRA Urges EPA Not to Designate PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances

Jun 23, 2022

Waste and Recycling Fire Season Has Officially Started, May 2022 Sees Most Fires Ever

Jun 23, 2022

A Sustainability Talks Video Series

A Sustainability Talks Video Series featuring waste, recycling, and sustainability experts who have stories to tell around building more sustainable business systems and world.

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WSJ: Misconceptions Cause the Single-use Plastic Panic

Virginia Governor Rolls Back Plastics Phase-out, Seeking to Court Recycling

Jun 24, 2022

Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin has placed an executive order on a number of environmentally-based policies, specifically centered...

Scaling the Use of Ocean-Bound Plastics

Jun 22, 2022

“Scaling the Use of Ocean-bound Plastics: A Story of Circularity” was an intriguing session from Waste360’s...

NextWave Plastics Expands Cross-Industry Consortium; Welcomes Logitech, Prevented Ocean Plastic, #tide ocean material

Jun 22, 2022

On June 16, 2022 NextWave Plastics announced several companies being added to their consortium of cross-industry...

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The Plastic Pollution vs. Food Waste Dilemma

Jun 17, 2022

Plastic reduction is a double-edged sword that must be fully considered for all of its facets. While the pressure to stop manufacturing plastic containers is often of high importance to environmentalists, it is essential to acknowledge their...

With Global Plastic Waste Expected to Triple, A New Report Looks at Policy

Jun 16, 2022

As the plastic waste issue continues to compound across the globe, a new report suggests that the amount of waste is estimated to triple by 2060. A new document from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group...

Recycled Plastic Collected by Waste Pickers Now Featured on Garments Sold Worldwide

Jun 16, 2022

With somewhere between one and a half to four million people serving as informal "waste pickers" in the country of India, a slew of different social issues arise in the waste industry of the nation and its worldwide partners. Waste pickers...

Recycling Itself Cannot Fix the Plastics Issue

Jun 14, 2022

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) in England announced in December 2018 that the winning International Statistic of the year was 90.5%. This number represents the proportion of plastic waste that had never been recycled based on a paper titled...

Stickers Used to Keep Plastic Bags from Recycling Bins

The Future of Plastic is Shaded Green

Jun 09, 2022

Sustainable plastics are being held back by a variety of factors, offering opportunities for investors to drive change.

Proactive Approach Needed to Address Plastic Pollution

New Recycling Coalition to Improve Recovery of Plastic Packaging and Enhance the Circularity of PET Packaging

Jun 09, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Recycling Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of its PET Recycling Coalition, an initiative...

Creating a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging (WasteExpo 2022)

Jun 06, 2022

According to the most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data, the U.S. only recycles an estimated 14 percent of...

Dutch Company Creates Urban Bike Made with Recycled Trash

Jun 02, 2022

The highly anticipated urban bicycle made of 90 percent recycled plastic waste by igur and MTRL is expected to roll out late this year...

How Trash Bins Can Be Manufactured with Ocean Plastics

Jun 01, 2022

Watch as Ryan Hickman from Ryan's Recycling talks about the use of ocean plastics in the manufacturing of bins and carts with Rehrig Pacific Co.

S&B Selected as Contractor for New Hope Energy’s Advanced Plastics Recycling Unit

May 26, 2022

HOUSTON --S&B Engineers and Constructors (S&B) signs a multi-year master service agreement to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for New Hope Energy’s plastics pyrolysis unit. The initial project under this...

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