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Mixed waste processing technology begins trial in Seattle

Envirotec Magazine

King County estimates that 70 percent, over 600,000 tons per year, of recyclable material exists in the county’s waste stream despite robust curbside recycling programs. In addition to recapturing paper fibre, other recyclable materials like metals and plastics are reclaimed for new beneficial uses.

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Project secures EU funding to create sugars, chemicals and plastics from household waste

Envirotec Magazine

Nick Thompson, Managing Director of Fiberight Limited: “Securing this important EU funding enables us to take our promising pilot-scale work over the last five years to the next stage and demonstrate its commercial viability as an economically and environmentally sustainable process.”.

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

Grist

This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. billion tons of plastic. At the beginning, sure, it will be a little more costly,” Marty said.