1 | GOP support yields bipartisan bottle bill
An update to Oregon's landmark container deposit law has cleared the state's House of Representatives, launching a pilot project for a series of stand-alone redemption centers and increasing the deposit value to a dime if the redemption rate falls below 80 percent for all covered items.
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2 | Plastics a focus at the Resource Recycling Conference
Plastics will be on the agenda at this fall's Resource Recycling Conference in Indianapolis.
Which types of plastics are MRF's accepting? Are MRF's sorting PET bottles from HDPE bottles, do they mix their front-end bulky rigid plastics with the mixed non-bottle household plastics, and what results in the cleanest, highest value product? Are there regional differences or are plastics consistently accepted and sorted across the country? Patty Moore of Moore Recycling Associates reveals the invaluable results from extensive research into what's really going on with plastics recycling at MRF's.
The Resource Recycling Conference will be held August 17-18 at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis. For more information visit www.rrconference.com or click on the banner below.
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3 | ACC releases plastics-to-oil assessment
The American Chemistry Council has released a report evaluating the emerging technologies used to convert scrap plastics to oil, diesel or other petrochemicals.
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4 | More details emerge on NURRC shutdown
In the weeks since the bombshell that the joint venture PET recycling plant NURRC had suspended operations at its Spartanburg, South Carolina site, new details have emerged on the relationships between partners Coca-Cola and United Resource Recovery Corp., their suppliers and their downstream buyers.
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5 | Carpet recovery effort grows
Carpet America Recovery Effort, a carpet industry organization that seeks to reduce the industry's waste, has released numbers on how much of its product it kept out of landfills in 2010.
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6 | Patent watch
Several patents relating to chemical recycling methods for plastics have been filed.
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7 | NewsBits
Recycling equipment, bag bans and other plastics items in this week's NewsBits.
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8 | Upcoming conferences
Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences!
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9 | Jobs Available & Sought
Service and Repair Technician, Steinert US.
Details are available here.
Service Manager, Steinert US.
Details are available here.
Plastics Business Development, Continental Waste Management LLC (Raleigh, North Carolina).
Details are available here.
Regional Manager, Steinert US.
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 newsletter editor Henry Leineweber at [email protected].
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