What glass equipment did for one municipal program
A materials recovery facility spent $671,000 to buy and install glass cleanup equipment, which is generating $296,000 in annual savings....
Canada
Bag-in-bag curbside recycling targeted with outreach effort
The City of Calgary's curbside recycling program has accepted plastic bags since it was rolled out in 2009, but it...
Company scales up non-toxic precious metals recovery
Canada-based EnviroLeach is planning to open a processing facility that will use a non-toxic water-based formula to recover precious metals....
Bag-in-bag curbside recycling targeted with outreach effort
The City of Calgary's curbside recycling program has accepted plastic bags since it was rolled out in 2009, but it...
GreenMantra announces PP waxes to aid plastics recycling
A company creating plastics processing aids from recycled plastics has announced a new line of PP waxes. Brantford, Ontario-based GreenMantra...
Vancouver, B.C. area weighing foam disposal ban
A Canadian metropolitan region home to 2.5 million people is considering imposing a disposal ban on expanded polystyrene. The regional...
North American recovered paper rates and usage hit new highs
For the second year in a row, U.S. paper recovery marked a record high in 2016. Use of recycled paper is...
In other news: May 16, 2017
A contamination-reduction campaign draws an angry response from some residents, and New York City approves a ban on polystyrene foam...
In other news: May 10, 2017
Florida lawmakers vote to remove roadblocks for plastics conversion efforts, and Envision Plastics announces it will source millions of pounds...
Boosting consumer awareness could unlock trove of mobile material
Getting old mobile devices out of Canadians' junk drawers and into the recycling stream may be a lucrative challenge for...
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