Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

In addition, the roadmap also presents the results of extensive consumer research, analysis from local authorities and in-depth interviews with key industry experts, with the aim of clarifying best practice to maximise capture rates in a post-EPR, post-DRS landscape.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You will also need to purchase special equipment to recycle various materials. There are so many options for what you can recycle. For example, 80 billion pounds of food were thrown away in 2020, so food recycling is big business. You can also recycle paper, tires, chemicals, glass, and so much more.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The research, which is published in ChemRxiV , is a development of previous work demonstrating ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) can be used as a leaching agent, replacing the need for hazardous chemicals in cathode recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

“Mechanical recycling is limited by the fact that not all plastic waste can be reprocessed into useable material. Thanks to chemical recycling, fossil resources can be replaced with recycled material made from plastic waste. This allows fossil resources to be saved and waste to be reduced.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

Global Compact Leaders’ Summit, according to trade magazine Jewelry Outlook. There is a lot of e-waste but only about 20 percent of it is formally recycled, with the rest being informally recycled or going to the landfill, according to Twomey-Madsen. . We are also having interest from companies that work with new materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

To ensure the liners have suitable strength, the Tesco recycled plastic pellet is blended with recovered agricultural films, such as baling wrap. The combination of the two recycled material sources gives the refuse sacks the required strength and durability, with a high resistance to tearing.

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Plastics Packaging Recycling Recycling 245

Greenability Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

Discover locally crafted items made from repurposed and recycled materials at The Perennial Bee, a Green Works retail store that supports environmental leadership programs for youth. The post Find recycled crafts at The Perennial Bee appeared first on Greenability Magazine. The shop is open from 4 – 7 p.m.,

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The raw materials extracted from the mattresses will then go to re-processors and manufacturers, mostly within 40 miles of the facility, helping support the regional economy and reduce the carbon footprint involved in the process. Some fibres are even mixed with Kevlar to make stab-proof vests.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2022

You can use patterned wrapping paper and old cereal boxes to create a nifty file/magazine holder or a desk organizer. Gift the go-getters in your office sustainable business cards such as these 100% recyclable cotton cards from Moo or Botanical Paperworks plantable business cards that biodegrade and grow into herbs and wildflowers.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

. • PLASTIX AS with CIRCULAR ROPES, a product made from 97- 98 % recycled content to make the next generation ropes. Working Environments Furniture Ltd’s Morph concept for a modular construction system made from 100% recycled materials and 100% recyclable.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The group’s objective is “to ensure all flexible packaging is optimised for collection, sorting and recycling – and producing higher quality recycled materials to be used again in the circular economy.” ” Now CEFLEX has teamed up with recyclability experts Recyda to deliver design-check.ceflex.eu

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2022

Through its industry experience and investment in the facility, Levenseat says it will introduce new, innovative processes to ensure more of this waste stream is recovered for recycling with remaining un-recyclable materials converted into fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Drive an infrastructure market for recycling. Expand operations to hard-to-recycle materials. mt) and 2019 recycle rate of 51% (source WRAP). Assumes non-recycled material to landfill/energy from waste at a 50:50 ratio. End plastic waste export. i] Based on 2019 plastic placed on market (2.3

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The recycled materials are being used initially on Super Duty F-250 trucks. The recycled materials are being used to manufacture injection-molded fuel-line clips installed first on Super Duty F-250 trucks.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In the guide’s preparation, pipe manufacturers seemingly shared their technical knowledge to provide practical recommendations on the use of chambers in brownfield sites; the choice of bedding and sidefill including recycled materials; layout of pipes and chambers to minimise blockages and ease maintenance requirements; and construction.

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Recycled materials Plastics Construction Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The very first wind turbines to be erected in Scotland are now reaching the end of their operational lives but, rather than creating a “major headache”, EMR and others are already busy recycling them. And these turbines are proving to be a rich source of high-quality, low carbon recyclable material.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Manufactured in Britain with recycled material with a low carbon footprint, EVO Recycled® is ideal for companies seeking to reduce their environmental impact and achieve greener recognition. Each product in the range is manufactured from recycled or sustainable material. •

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As a manufacturer, as well as a recycling business, Mercers offers additional circularity by guaranteeing a market for the material recycled. Across the industry, we are seeing greater demand for UK-produced PRNs, while upcoming legislation, such as the Plastic Packaging Tax, is driving demand for recycled material.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The reforms will ensure that from 31 March 2026, all English households will be able to recycle food, drink and other liquid cartons with confidence, mandating their collection alongside plastic and other dry-recyclable materials and bringing an end to the current fragmented system.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 147

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

Environmental organizations such as the Friends of the Earth Germany estimate that less than 16% of the recyclable waste earmarked for recycling in Germany can be reused. The biggest problem is caused by mixtures of recyclable materials in items such as a yogurt pot with a cardboard sleeve and aluminium lid.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

For some packaging it is practical to reach higher levels of recycled content, while for others, the roll out of technological developments will be required to include any. We must continue to work together to drive investment to overcome these challenges and act more sustainably.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, not all recycling processes yield the same quality raw materials and can do so multiple times, and this should be recognized. For more than 60 years, glass containers have been successfully collected for recycling via kerbside and bottle bank collection across the EU under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

In terms of end markets and applications for the recycled materials, multiple UK sectors will be targeted, including non-food contact packaging, heavy gauge refuse sacks, pipes and buckets, lumber and roadside furniture. Flexible plastics waste sorted by the process.

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Packaging Plastics Recycling Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Two of the new bays at Forth Resource Management, which were installed to hold recycled material made from organic waste delivered by local councils. The organic waste includes garden clippings and trimmings, and waste material produced by gardeners and landscapers.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Steel is also the most recycled engineering material per ton, with an inherent capability for repeated reuse and little-to-no change in quality. tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel produced, which means that recycling materials is not enough. However, steel has a large carbon footprint of 1.82

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2022

Even in the bitter cold months of winter, you can start planting your spring garden outside using these ideas for homemade, mini greenhouses made from recycled containers. The process is inexpensive, uses recycled materials, requires no electricity, produces healthier plants and offers an outlet for gardeners to start planting in the winter.

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Soil Plastics Recycling Recycling 74

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We strongly suggest that the Government consider escalating the plastic packaging tax to a minimum 50% recycled content to stimulate the market without creating a burden for the taxpayer and focus Extended Producer Responsibility on hard to recycle materials such as laminates and composite materials.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 162

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

LEAD Factory, led by Photocentric – the first technology that will enable products to be 3D printed at scale using recycled materials. WasteMap, led by Topolytics – using machine learning to develop a visual map of useful, reusable manufacturing products that can be extracted from our waste system.

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Technology Energy Energy Innovation 130

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

This will become increasingly important from this time next year, when a new la­w will see any packaging that contains less than 30% recycled PET taxed. Some manufacturers have gone further, pledging to include up to 50% recycled material in their packaging under the UK Plastics Pact.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

We have already seen investment in several projects, but there is much more scope for the companies with the biggest responsibility for the production of recyclable materials, to directly fund these projects, which include some of the world’s poorest people clearing up the most polluted environments.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Governments are increasing pressure to reduce reliance on single-use materials and increase recycled content. However, the waste industry is struggling to meet this demand because of the complexity behind sorting recycled materials such as plastic, compounding a missed $133 billion opportunity.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. It was a study published on 16 February that seemed to present MWS as a potential “silver bullet” that will allow the waste management sector to achieve the EU’s circular economy objectives.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Recycling is not always the best solution! see John Bullock quote below). Several companies, including Recolight, have introduced new services to facilitate the reuse and repair of fittings.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Education 130

Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Even in the bitter cold months of winter, you can start planting your spring garden outside using these ideas for homemade, mini greenhouses made from recycled containers. The process is inexpensive, uses recycled materials, requires no electricity, produces healthier plants and offers an outlet for gardeners to start planting in the winter.

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