GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2022

Sponsored: People expect to see more real sustainability options from businesses. Recycled fiber is one of them

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Aluminium recycling trade group Alupro officially launched its “Roadmap to increasing UK aerosol recycling” at an event in Leeds on 19 April. The document attempts to offer a long-term strategic vision to drive a widespread uplift in national capture and recycling rates. Alupro’s Tom Gidding’s at the launch.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ensuring Performance and Safety in Recycled Plastics. As companies and consumer brands incorporate recycled plastic content into their products and as part of their circularity goals, product integrity becomes an important consideration. There are many ways to evaluate the performance and safety of recycled materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

The Textile Recycling Association (TRA) are sounding the alarm about the imminent collapse of the textile recycling sector due to global market challenges. According to a statement on the group’s website, “fast fashion has intensified the influx of low-quality textiles into the recycling stream. ”

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How AI and Robotics are Transforming Recycling. The challenges facing recycling in the U.S. This kind of collaboration - CPG companies working hand-in-hand with technological innovators, MRF operators and investors - will be critical to solving logjams and current hurdles to improving recycling in the United States. greenbizjd.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The project aims to ensure metal aerosol recyclability and viability in a post-extended producer responsibility (EPR) and post-deposit return scheme (DRS) landscape. Metal recycles forever, so the steel or aluminium in metal aerosols can be recycled endlessly, without any loss of quality.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scaling the Market for Post-Consumer Recycled Content. What will it take to scale the domestic market for post-consumer recycled content? The demand for recycled plastics has skyrocketed — so much so that brands and packaging producers are experiencing limited supply. Eunice Heath, Corporate Director, Sustainability, Dow.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

A new tool promises to remove much of the uncertainty faced by packaging designers and others when it comes to understanding the recyclability of fibre-based products (either finished or under-development). Papercycle is described as the UK’s first comprehensive recyclability assessment and certification service for fibre-based packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The Plastic recycling charity behind the RECOUP Awards 2024 says entries are now open. Sponsorship packages are still available for both the awards and conference, offering organisations an invaluable opportunity to showcase their products and services in front of the most influential people in the plastics resource and recycling value chain.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Reduce, reuse, recycle, register? Consumer interest in the use of recycled materials, so-called recyclates, is on the rise. Patagonia, for example, recently declared that 68 percent of its offerings use recycled materials. Patagonia, for example, recently declared that 68 percent of its offerings use recycled materials.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

Packaging and food waste are some of the most common things in your daily life that you recycle. However, old clothes can be recycled, providing significant waste reduction and offering valuable materials to many industries. Clothing recycling rarely receives the attention it deserves, and getting the word out can make a difference.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability. One of the goals of the platform was to convert all packaging to recyclable or compostable formats by 2025, while increasing the use of recycled content. . You have to make sure that something is not just recyclable but that it is going to be recycled,” she said. “We

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Equal Recycling Access. communities and industry partners collaborate to ensure access to recycling? While most Americans would agree that recycling is important, access to recycling bins, store drop-off options and other facilities can vary greatly depending on your location. How can U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

How Pandora hopes to reach 100% recycled silver and gold. By 2030, Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 percent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. Deonna Anderson. Tue, 06/30/2020 - 08:55.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

The recyclable heat exchangers. Alfa Laval – an expert in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – in partnership with Stena Recycling, is to launch a ground-breaking business model for sustainable and environmentally efficient recycling of heat exchangers, enabling up to 100 percent metal regeneration.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nearly half of all businesses (46%) across the UK have ‘recycling food waste’ at the top of their priorities to reduce their organisation’s carbon footprint, according to new research. The 10 main business priorities to reduce carbon footprint: Recycling food waste (46%). Recycling plastic and cardboard (19%).

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

How BASF’s reciChain aims to improve traceability of recycled plastics. The vision for BASF’s reciChain project is to take circularity into the real world by increasing traceability of recycled plastics. Toomey added that once a product is recycled, the tracker can be maintained through multiple uses. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP is expanding its service provision by introducing a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) service and its own state-of-the-art laboratory to support its recognised RecyClass certification service and facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recycling facilities collect glass and mercury from thrown away fluorescent bulbs, but discarded lighting could also supply rare-earth metals for reuse. The 17 metals referred to as rare earths aren’t all widely available and aren’t easily extracted with existing recycling methods.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Adidas and H&M join project to scale circular fashion and recycled fibers. Finally, sustainable fashion platform Fashion for Good has been tasked with leading stakeholder co-operation and communications efforts, with branding support from Finland's Aalto University and Infinited Fiber Company. Michael Holder. Fri, 12/11/2020 - 00:05.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Date/Time: January 18, 2022 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Companies are innovating at an unprecedented speed to offer products that are more sustainable and provide greater value to customers. For businesses to be truly sustainable, they must look beyond the immediate use of products and understand the full lifecycle of their impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Team Portables, a consortium for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) recycling incentivization, has received Phase II funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. Using their smartphone, registered users will be able to find out more about recycling and actively earn rewards for doing so.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2021

Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train. With an aggressive national recycling target (50 percent by 2030); a renewed White House focus on climate change; and clamor for consistent state rules around cutting trash, the federal sustainability policy train is leaving the station.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

The study is published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Finding ways to recover and use these metals in a low-cost, low-energy and non-toxic way is therefore crucial for making our use of electronic goods more sustainable. However, WEEE contains a wealth of metals that could be used in a range of new products.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 29, 2024

Since everything has a shelf life, some wonder if this way to use H2 is truly clean Are hydrogen fuel cells recyclable? Now, many are questioning how green H2 can be if the materials needed to use it as clean energy cannot be recycled. That said, there are many materials in these units that can be recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

Adhesive residue left on recyclable materials, such as glass and cardboard, can be a challenge to recycle. Sticky residue causes problems in the recycling industry, ranging from low-quality products, blocked water systems and damaged recycling machinery. It was developed at the University of Surrey.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Stopford will now use its substantial technology innovation and engineering expertise to further develop and scale the novel hydro-thermal process called CircuPlast, enabling the conversion of non-recyclable end of life plastics into high-value chemicals for use as feedstock for the plastics industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Over 900 Tesco stores now have collection points for plastic recycling. A new partnership between Tesco and packaging manufacturer Berry Global is now recycling soft plastic collected from customers at Tesco stores. It has collected over 850 tonnes of soft plastic to date and is working with partners on several recycling solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

A project that seeks to create new high-quality grades of recycled steel – and produce a sustainable alternative raw material for the cement industry – has been shortlisted for the External Partnership Award at this year’s World Sustainability Awards.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

Four local authorities receive funds to boost recycling on-the-go near waterways Areas surrounding waterways in Bury, Derby, Adur & Worthing and Bristol will soon be adorned with colourful and eye-catching bins to help residents and visitors recycle when out and about. Combined, these projects saw over 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For those looking to dispose of synthetic turf in an environmentally-sensitive way, the EMEA Synthetic Turf Council (EMSTC) has launched a new guide to recycling facilities across Europe. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE Collectively, the Europe-wide network of recycling facilities boasts over 4.3

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2023

Kiera Jeuitt is an expert at the three r's: reducing, reusing and recycling. She is the founder of "I Love Thrifting" and an expert on how to use thrifting to live more sustainably by reusing what's old, reducing the waste produced by new items you might possibly buy instead and offering amazing tips on how to recycle what's already there.

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Solar Industry

APRIL 23, 2024

TERREPOWER , a division of BBB Industries, has launched a solar panel recycling line at its facility in Sparta, Tenn., “We can reduce environmental waste by getting the most value out of the original component before it’s recycled,” says Maria Caballero, president of TERREPOWER.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Solar-powered recycling bins have been rolled out in Lambeth. Environmental charity Hubbub launced – on 5 October – an in-depth guide for local authorities on how to roll out a successful recycling on-the-go campaign and thereby increase recycling rates and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill or incineration.

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A research team led by Professor Kyoseung Sim in the Department of Chemistry at UNIST has achieved a milestone in sustainable wearable devices.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the California city of Paso Robles, architecture firm Clayton & Little has given old oil field drill stem pipes unexpected new life — as an equipment barn that offsets over 100% of the energy needs for a sustainably-minded winery.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Lowry Hotel in Manchester is among the first in the UK to sign up to a new toiletries recycling scheme. The half-used soaps from The Lowry Hotel will be shipped to a recycling centre in Amsterdam. The surface of recycled soap is sanitised then ground into soap “noodles”, before being pressed and cut into brand new 80g bars.

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