28Jun

“New Life for Old Blades”

An estimated 53,000 wind turbines are operational across 41 U.S. states, all of which will eventually need to be disposed of or recycled.

28Jun

“Turning waste into cement”

@NestlePhil and Republic Cement and Building Materials are teaming up to co-process post-consumer plastic waste and convert it to cement.

28Jun

If every asthma sufferer in the UK recycled their inhalers for one year, over 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions would be avoided.

27Jun

@li_cycle claims to have demonstrated a commercial process achieving a recycling rate of 80-100% of the materials in lithium-ion batteries.

27Jun

Australia’s Pacific Highway upgrade to four lanes features the use of recycled glass sand in place of quarried sand.

27Jun

@Dell is now allowing consumers free drop-off recycling of any brand of computer at 2,000 @GoodwillIntl stores nationwide.

26Jun

@NREL researchers are looking to use electron backscatter diffraction as a sorting diagnostic tool to facilitate li-ion battery recycling.

26Jun

@ByFusionPBC has developed a technology to convert any unsorted and unwashed plastic waste into an advanced building material.

26Jun

While plastic bag bans are driving the use of paper packaging, they are also increasing business costs, says the founder of @MrTakeOutBags.

25Jun

An @Earthworks report says recycling will be the “most important strategy” for cutting primary metals demand as renewable energy takes off.