February 2012 - Page 3 of 4 - Plastic Waste Solutions
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Court Declares ‘Goody’ Bag Marketing Claims Were Misleading
Posted on February 16, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsCourt Declares ‘Goody’ Bag Marketing Claims Were Misleading | greenwashingspy.com. Green washing gets stopped in this one case at least. Claims of degradable bags being biodegradable were unsubstantiated.
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Fremantle bans plastic bags
Posted on February 16, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsFreo bans plastic bags - The West Australian. A near first for Australia. Congratulations to Fremantle for taking the stand. Fremantle is an ocean side city in Western Australia. ...
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Environmental groups claim 320,000-tonne black hole in official recycling figures
Posted on February 16, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsEnvironmental groups claim 320,000-tonne black hole in official recycling figures. Industry groups promoting 'self regulatory schemes' as the best method for their members to control litter of plastic and other bottles. When the actual...
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Now Comes Plastic Eating Fungus
Posted on February 14, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsNow Comes Plastic Eating Fungus | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online. It will be interesting to see if this turns into anything. With no greenhouse gases given off during the plastic biodegradation there are some advantages.
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3rd Phase of make UAE plastic bags free drive
Posted on February 14, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations3rd phase of make UAE plastic bags free drive. It is hard to believe a whole country like Dubai can be listening to green washing...
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Single-Stream Recycling
Posted on February 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsWe know it is expensive to setup, but the increased recycling consumers will do when recycling is made easy and low cost is quite substantail. A big factor is to make it easy for the 'away from home'...
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Waste Plastics to Crude Oil Firm Secures $25 million
Posted on February 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsBeaverton, Oregon based waste plastics to crude oil specialist, Agilyx Corporation has secured $25 million in a new round of Series C funding. According to the company its system processes all types of difficult to recycle waste plastic,...
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Clean Up Australia report shows plastic bag ban not curbing dumping
Posted on February 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsClean up Australia day is a national day where volunteers go out to clean up the country. Statistics are kept of the main types of litter found. Depending on number or items picked up or the volume of items picked...
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Should Plastic Bags Be Banned in Austin?
Posted on February 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThis would be great for Austin Texas to either ban the bag or charge a fee for them. Charging a fee will drop the bag usage substantially in a few...
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Bottles top of the rubbish list for litter
Posted on February 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe 2011 Clean Up Australia Rubbish Report found the most common item found in WA was glass drink bottles followed by plastic bottles, cigarette butts and aluminium cans. Cigarette butts topped the list nationally. How do we get politicians to listen...
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