GreenMantra receives grant to fund PS recycling
A relative newcomer to the plastics recycling industry has received another multi-million dollar investment, this time for tackling polystyrene. GreenMantra...
Canada
MRF project yields best practices on fiber sorting
Optical sorter units helped clean up newsprint bales and boost OCC and old boxboard recovery in a region of Ontario....
GHG study draws headlines challenging value of recycling
A research paper on individual steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has precipitated a host of mainstream media stories, many...
Newspapers submit stewardship plan to comply with EPR law
Newspaper publishers in British Columbia have submitted a plan aimed at bringing them into compliance with the Canadian province's extended...
Canadian startup chops to it on wood recovery
Around 100,000 chopsticks are discarded in Vancouver, British Columbia every day, and that fact has led to a unique line...
Cleaning up
This story originally appeared in the June 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. ...
Compactor use benefits smaller recycling centers
Small collection facilities that run their recyclables through compactors before shipping them to larger processing centers can realize considerable cost...
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....
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....
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