Tag: Waste & Recycling

June 19, 2024

San Francisco-based Brightmark is preparing to launch its second chemical recycling plant leveraging pyrolysis to process mixed plastics—a $950 million project that will come to Thomaston, Georgia in Upson County. The first facility in Ashley, Indiana launched a couple of […]

June 6, 2024

Greensboro, North Carolina’s waste reduction supervisor Tori Carle Emerson was in for a shock when she saw the telling results of a recent recycling characterization study. The city’s curbside recycling stream was 36.2 percent garbage, despite that Carle Emerson and […]

April 24, 2024

Finland’s Neste has conducted a trial using liquefied discarded tires to advance its chemical recycling. In its trial, Neste turned pyrolysis oil gathered from discarded vehicle tires and produced high-quality raw materials for new plastics and chemicals. The pyrolysis oil […]

April 19, 2024

Gaviña Coffee Company, makers of Don Francisco’s® Coffee, José’s® Gourmet Coffee, Café La Llave®, and a wide variety of other family-crafted coffees, is celebrating Earth Month by announcing that it has recycled over 3 million used coffee bags, single serve […]

March 28, 2024

Ahead of Easter, Repak is estimating an increase in the amount of recycling done by Irish residents this holiday. Based on a survey of 1,000 adults in Ireland, Repak expects residents to recycle over 62,000 tonnes of waste, an increase […]

March 27, 2024

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has reported that Scotland’s recycling rate reach a record 63.3% in 2022. The new record is an increase of 5% from 2021 (which finished at 57%). Sepa notes the increase is reflected by economic […]

March 7, 2024

Amazon is continuing to invest in companies, announcing its latest partnership with San Francisco start up, Glacier. Glacier, a female-led company, is working to create next-generation, AI-guided recycling robots. The company announced today that is has raised $7.7 million in […]

March 5, 2024

The Maina Board of Environmental Protection is holding a public hearing this week on a new program that would require manufacturers to pay for the cost of recycling their packaging. “Producers of products, they’ll pay a fee based on the […]

February 20, 2024

California’s two-year-old organic waste reduction initiative faces significant challenges as the state struggles to implement food recycling programs effectively, jeopardizing waste-reduction targets. The initiative aims to mitigate methane emissions by diverting organic materials such as food scraps and yard waste […]

February 15, 2024

Houston, Texas is a few weeks into its food waste composting program, and it is seeing a steady increase in participation. Back on January 22, Houston kicked off the composting pilot program in partnership with Zero Waste Houston. The program […]

November 20, 2023

When you hear the industry buzz words, “chemical recycling”, do you think of technology that converts single-use plastic trash to products? The connection would make sense; chemical recycling, which typically uses heat to break down polymers into their building blocks, […]

October 13, 2023

This week, San Diego’s Environmental Services Department reported that it had completed the delivery of 210,000 new organic waste recycling bins to homes. The milestone was completed on Thursday and represents the biggest change in trash and recycling in San […]

January 23, 2023

In our latest episode of NothingWasted!, we spoke with Andy Weins from Green Up Solutions about the power of community connection, the beauty of entrepreneurship, leadership lessons from the military that apply to any business and more. His company is […]

November 10, 2022

Ruth Abbe, President of Zero Waste USA has just announced “Civic and environmental organizations, small businesses, local agencies and local officials will be able to obtain free technical assistance on waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and composting policies and programs from […]

September 28, 2022

A friend of mine likes to say the only thing wrong with recycling rates is the numerator and the denominator. I was reminded of this when I read about a study suggesting the 91.4 percent recycling rate for cardboard boxes, […]

August 18, 2022

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and The Recycling Partnership today announced a $300,000 grant for Ohio communities to dramatically improve residential recycling in Ohio. The grant will fund community projects aimed at working to prevent recycling contamination and […]

March 11, 2022

Perform a Google Image search for ocean plastics. The results are thousands of photos from across the globe of disrupted ecosystems, dwindling species populations and polluted beaches. While innovations and advancements in the waste and recycling industry are redirecting resources […]

March 3, 2022

ERI, the nation’s leading fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company currently provides the only NAID, R2, and e-Stewards certified secure-at-home (or office) box program in the United States. The program saw a dramatic […]

July 20, 2021

Each year, investors, businesses and governments spend over $1,3 trillion on waste reduction as well as on repair and reuse schemes. The sum in question is inadequate for the purpose of establishing a sustainable and circular economy across borders, a […]

July 23, 2020

UK Toyota dealer, Steven Eagell, has awarded full service recycling and resource recovery firm, Enva, a contract to provide all the waste and recycling services to its 29 dealerships across the South East of England and the West Midlands. Enva […]