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Plastic waste has some economic benefit for developing countries

Envirotec Magazine

Collecting waste in Lubango, Angola (image credit: Carsten ten Brink , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 They claim to have found that the import of plastic waste is associated with growth in gross domestic product per capita in the lower-income countries. graduate and lead author on the study.

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VOCs landmark: Firm marks 20 years of mobile carbon filter rentals

Envirotec Magazine

CPL had been selling carbon filters prior to this date, but 2003 was when they designed a genuinely portable unit and began the transition into a true ‘carbon & service’ business.

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. How can other companies find success in winning over their suppliers toward eliminating the very concept of waste in their products? Instead of oil, we use waste," he said.

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Will China’s crackdown on ‘foreign garbage’ force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?

Green Technology

recycling facilities and send more waste to landfills. Waste Dive, the must-read daily bulletin of waste-related news, named the initiative “Disruptor of the Year.” based waste collectors, selling scrap to a broker to be shipped to China is cheaper than sending it to recycling facilities at home. Geyer et al.,

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Some Sustainability fads deserve to die, others not so much…

Terra Infirma

Here are three I still hold a flame for: Industrial Symbiosis: in 2003, I stumbled on some WBCSD projects involving something called Industrial Symbiosis – the idea of one industry’s waste being seen as the raw material for another. What about those great ideas which have faded away?

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Women should consider careers in recycling, says plastics expert

Envirotec Magazine

At these sites, plastics recovered from end-of-life vehicles (auto shredder waste) and waste electrical goods are refined into high-quality recycled engineering polymers that match virgin material quality for use in a wide range of new products. For more information, visit www.axiongroup.co.uk.

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Brominated flame retardants are not hindering the recycling of WEEE plastics says new study

Envirotec Magazine

Around half of all WEEE plastics generated in Europe do not enter official WEEE collection channels, ending up in the waste bin, processed at substandard recycling facilities, or exported outside Europe. • . • Approximately 2.6 Restricted BFRs (e.g. fillers), are sorted out during the conventional density-based recycling process.

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