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Public Utilities, Waste Management

What is “Real Recycling?”

December 14, 2023

Via: Waste360

As we approach 2024, the rearview mirror is finally coming into focus. Barring a big December, forecasted fires are 381 heading into the last month of the year. The good news is the number is trending down from the 390 […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Colorado Plastic Bag Fee Helping Local Recycling Facilities

June 1, 2023

Via: Waste360

Six months ago, Colorado’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act put a 10-cent fee statewide on single-use plastics. Since, early data suggests the change is helping local recycling centers. Eco-Cycle, a center in Colorado for hard-to-recycle materials, has been pushing for a […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

ACT Partners With Federal Government to Build New Composting and Recycling Facilities, Cut Emissions by a Third

August 10, 2022

Via: Waste360

Australia’s federal government recently announced a $13 million project to fund a composting facility large enough to process food and garden waste in Canberra, the nation’s capital. The project with collect waste from 5,000 households and is expected to divert […]


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New Hampshire Passes Advanced Recycling Law

June 20, 2022

Via: Waste360

Today New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed S.B. 367 into law, which will help create a more circular economy for plastics while attracting new jobs to the state. New Hampshire is the 19th state since 2017—and the first New England […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Researchers to Develop Robotics for Recycling Centers

November 13, 2019

Via: Waste360

Berk Calli, a robotics scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, is leading a team of eight researchers at three universities on a project to develop robotics technology that could help make recycling facilities safer, cleaner and more efficient. […]


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Analysts: Lithium Battery Recycling Market to Expand Tenfold by 2030

November 5, 2019

Via: Waste360

Researchers at London-based Circular Energy Storage (CES) have estimated that in 2030, recycling facilities could recover 125,000 tons of lithium, 35,000 tons of cobalt and 86,000 tons of nickel, according to a pv magazine report. The report also notes that […]


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Connecticut Municipalities Call for New Recycling Infrastructure

March 8, 2019

Via: Waste360

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) recently released a report that calls for the development of in-state recycling facilities, new technologies and development of new markets due to the collapse of the statewide market for recyclables. CCM has called for […]