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1 | Earth Day serves as plastics recycling platform
Plenty of recycling companies and organizations are using April 22 as a center point for advocacy campaigns. Here are a few that touch on plastics.
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2 | PetroChem Wire: Recycled CoPP prices rise in April
Tight flake and bale supply is contributing to higher recycled CoPP prices this month.
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3 | Can Michigan significantly increase plastics recycling?
Despite having one of the lowest state recycling rates in the country, Michigan is attempting to reinvent itself as a trendsetter when it comes to recovering plastics and other materials.
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4 | College recycling push diverts nearly 90 million pounds
Antioch University Seattle emerged as the Grand Champion of this year's RecycleMania, an on-campus recycling tournament held in February and March.
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5 | NewsBits
Philips is utilizing significant amounts of post-consumer resin in a new single-cup coffee brewer. That development and more are percolating in NewsBits.
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6 | Industry and supplier news
MBA Polymers last week announced it was awarded the 2013 Katerva Award, an honor that recognizes innovations with strong potential to advance the planet toward sustainability. U.K.-based MBA has over 300 million pounds per year of processing capacity to turn waste into high-performance plastics. For more, click here.
Recycling consulting firm RRS has launched a service called TruCycle, which allows product stakeholders to better understand the recyclability of specific packaging forms. The service analyzes packaging from three perspectives: probable end markets for the commodity material; the ability to sort and bale the commodity material within materials recovery facilities; and statistics on access to recycling for the material in communities around the nation. For more, visit recycle.com/trucycle.
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7 | Request for proposals
The Ag Container Recycling Council (ACRC), a voluntary industry funded organization that collects and recycles pesticide plastic containers nationwide, is seeking proposals from qualified firms for HDPE pesticide container collection and recycling services in one or more of the following 19 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont and West Virginia. For more information or to obtain an RFQ, contact [email protected].
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8 | Upcoming conferences & webinars
Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars.
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9 | Jobs Available & Sought
Service Technician, Plastics Recycling Equipment Company (Norcross, Georgia).
Details are available here.
Sales Manager, EREMA North America, Inc. (Ipswich, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.
Sales Director, Emerald Pacific (Austin, Texas / Mexico City).
Details are available here.
Sales and Marketing Professional, Birch Plastics, Inc. (Houston).
Details are available here.
Various Sales Positions, Waste Management (National).
Details are available here.
Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.
If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, send an email to associate editor Dan Leif at [email protected].
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