03Jul

“The Recycling Game Is Rigged Against You”

Single-stream recycling and multi-material packaging are boosting contamination rates in recycling systems.

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02Jul

“Why Nike is making most shoes from manufacturing waste”

Over 70 percent of Nike footwear contains materials made from waste products from the company’s manufacturing processes, including scraps from its factories and ground-up pieces of old shoes, according to the company.

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02Jul

“Procter & Gamble to eliminate manufacturing waste by 2020”

Consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble has announced plans to eliminate 100 percent of the company’s manufacturing waste at its production sites worldwide within three years.

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02Jul

“Veolia opens France’s first PV recycling facility”

French waste management company Veolia has opened the first PV recycling facility in that country through a partnership with PV Cycle. The recycling plant will process 1,400 metric tons of panels per year from 2017 and up to 4,000 tons by 2021.

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02Jul

“Ohio EPA launches online marketplace for reuse and recycling”

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has launched an online platform where Ohio businesses, nonprofits and governmental organizations can advertise and acquire scrap and byproduct materials that might otherwise be disposed of in landfills.

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02Jul

“C&D recycling facility formally launched”

Pitt County Solid Waste and Recycling, in North Carolina, has launched a construction and demolition (C&D) recycling facility. The goal is to eventually recycle “at least” 75 percent of the county’s C&D debris, according to facility director John Demary.

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02Jul

“Team develops machine with aim of ending textile waste”

A Cornell University design and research team, assembled to tackle the environmental problem of post-consumer textile waste, has developed an innovative fabric-shredding machine in hopes of developing a zero-waste solution for the textile industry.

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02Jul

“Ministries want to recycle coal power waste”

Vietnam has 21 coal power plants discharging over 15 million metric tons of ash and slag each year. By the end of 2017, Vietnam had about 40 million metric tons of such by-products. Now, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction is looking to recycle coal combustion products […]

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02Jul

“Scientists used coal ash to build oyster reefs off the Eastern Shore. How is the project holding up?””

In the 1990s, Virginia Power (now Dominion Energy) used coal ash to build an artificial oyster reef. A multi-year study has now found that the reef, which still sits today in an inlet of Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge, is just as effective as “traditional” reefs.

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02Jul

“Old solar panels causing an environmental crisis in China”

Thousands of aging solar panels throughout China could trigger an environmental crisis over the next two decades, according to the China Renewable Energy Society. The organization estimates that there could be 20 million metric tons of solar panel waste by the middle of the century.

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