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SEPA household waste statistics 2019 highlight positive trends on recycling, carbon emissions and reduced landfill use

Envirotec Magazine

million tonnes of CO2 equivalent from 2011. Plastic and glass recycling increase, paper and cardboard continues downward trend. Total household recycling rate 44.9%. The 2019 metric shows a continued downward trajectory since 2011 in Scotland’s household waste carbon impact. million from 2011.

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How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste

GreenBiz

"The one thing that is difficult — and it’s difficult for all companies but especially, I think, in the protein industry — there’s just certain materials you can’t recycle or reuse," said Steve Levitsky, vice president of sustainability for well-known chicken purveyor Perdue Farms. sales for the company.

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How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste

AGreenLiving

. “The one thing that is difficult — and it’s difficult for all companies but especially, I think, in the protein industry — there’s just certain materials you can’t recycle or reuse,” said Steve Levitsky, vice president of sustainability for well-known chicken purveyor Perdue Farms. sales for the company.

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

GreenBiz

I’ve been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting," Boyd said. "I Dell already has plucked some of the low-hanging fruit of closed-loop materials, such as by using reclaimed ocean plastics.

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Are microbes the future of recycling? It’s complicated.

Grist

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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Bio-recycling gets fashionable with enzymes that will eat your shoes

Business Green

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025. Hungry, hungry enzymes.

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

Business Green

I've been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting," Boyd said. "I Dell already has plucked some of the low-hanging fruit of closed-loop materials, such as by using reclaimed ocean plastics.