July 2013 - Page 2 of 4 - Plastic Waste Solutions
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Bagging the Rhetoric on Plastic Bag Recycling – USA
Posted on July 23, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsBagging the Rhetoric on Plastic Bag Recycling | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram. But last week the Bangor Daily News reported a sobering reality: Maine’s largest recycling company, ecoMaine, grosses barely $4-5 per TON for recycled...
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Green coffee shops cut rubbish, but at what cost?
Posted on July 23, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsBBC - Capital - Green coffee shops cut rubbish, but at what cost?. In an industry where disposable is king — Starbucks can go through as many as 2.3...
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Revilla wife wants nationwide plastics ban – Philippines
Posted on July 22, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsRevilla wife wants nationwide plastics ban | ABS-CBN News. If Cavite Rep. Lani Mercado-Revilla’s House Bill 106 gets approved, plastic bags will be a thing of the past nationwide after 3 years. Revilla’s bill essentially legislates for the whole country what...
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Recycling Uptick at Oregon’s Hillsboro Ballpark Attributed to GreenDrop Recycling Stations
Posted on July 22, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsRecycling Uptick at Oregon's Hillsboro Ballpark Attributed to GreenDrop Recycling Stations(R) | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine. The unique, market-leading GreenDrop Recycling Station was designed through multi-year efforts of the Portland Trail Blazers head office and the Rose Garden Arena...
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WM expands Iowa waste-to-energy facility
Posted on July 22, 2013 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWM expands Iowa waste-to-energy facility. Waste Management has announced the expansion of waste-to-energy facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The company says its Des Moines Metro Methane Recovery Facility at the Metro Park East landfill in Polk County will increase output from 6.4...
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Tasmanian company transforms PVC waste – Australia
Posted on July 22, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsTasmanian company transforms PVC waste - News - Plastics News#email_sustain#email_sustain. An Australian manufacturer’s unplastized PVC recycling program has seen about 105 tons of window profile waste recycled since 2012 and converted into products that include septic tanks for developing nations.
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Landfill Levies – Different jurisdictions use levies to achieve specific outcomes
Posted on July 15, 2013 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalLandfill Levies. Landfill levies (or taxes, depending on where you live) are added to the tipping fee at a landfill to increase the cost of disposal to a point where diversion becomes more economically attractive. There...
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Campbell Newman should be applauded for axing plans to add to shopping costs by banning plastic bags – Australia
Posted on July 15, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsEditorial: Campbell Newman should be applauded for axing plans to add to shopping costs by banning plastic bags | The Courier-Mail. This is misleading article designed to scare the public into thinking something bad would happen to them if this...
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Trends in Waste for 2013 – Canada
Posted on July 14, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSolid Waste & Recycling Magazine. The sooner we get to zero waste the better off we will be. Manufacturers have to made partially responsible for their products as an incentive to get the products back out of the waste stream. ...
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Which bags kill planet Earth faster – plastic or paper? – Russia
Posted on July 14, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWhich bags kill planet Earth faster - plastic or paper? - English pravda.ru. The research center of Superjob.ru recruitment portal wondered what common people think on the subject. It turned out that respondents (1,600 people from 230 settlements of the...
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