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Boosting multi-family numbers with mixed-waste sorting

Published: October 10, 2017
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In Toronto, as in other cities, multi-family residential recycling rates have been stubbornly lower than their single-family counterparts. As Canada’s largest city works to boost recycling rates, a local MRF operator is experimenting with recovering recyclables from multi-family garbage streams.

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Advanced PET bottle recycling plant coming to California

Published: October 31, 2017
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Construction is underway on the rPlanet Earth facility in Vernon, Calif.

Construction is underway on a massive Los Angeles-area plastics recycling facility that will take in bales of PET bottles from curbside collection and other channels. The rPlanet Earth facility will produce recycled-content products used to make bottles and food packaging.

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