November 2022 - Page 2 of 3 - Plastic Waste Solutions
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REDcycle Stops accepting soft plastic waste – AUSTRALIA
Posted on November 18, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingFollowing REDcycle’s temporary suspension of its soft plastic packaging collections, industry needs to come together to reinstate a scheme that has integrity and long-term economic viability. Importantly, this needs...
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Groups want EPA to limit PVA in laundry pods, seeing microplastic problems -USA
Posted on November 18, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource An environmental coalition and the green home products brand Blueland are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to limit PVA film used in billions of laundry and dishwasher pods each year, saying they contribute to microplastic pollution. Other studies have found...
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Is recycling the problem, not the solution? – Australia
Posted on November 15, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource Economist Jason Murphy has a different take. Recycling plastic, he argues, is “kind of bullshit”. People are very worried about reducing landfill – but landfill size is only a minor environmental problem compared to reducing greenhouse emissions. With the...
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Queensland Containers for Change program to expand – Australia
Posted on November 14, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource The Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) has welcomed the Queensland Government’s review of the Containers for Change program, aimed at expanding eligible containers to include glass wine and spirit bottles. Good move by Queensland. Leading the other states.
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An Environmental Group Challenges a Proposed Plastics ‘Advanced Recycling’ Plant in Pennsylvania – USA
Posted on November 13, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource Advanced recycling is a big part of what the chemical industry claims is an answer to a global plastics problem that the United Nations has described as a “triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss and pollution.” But...
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A New Plant in Indiana Uses a Process Called ‘Pyrolysis’ to Recycle Plastic Waste. Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration – USA
Posted on November 13, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource A lot of what comes into the plant gets lost in the process. In a document Brightmark filed in December with the EPA, the company acknowledged that just 20 percent of the plant’s output is its primary product—what it described...
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Pact’s billion bottle recycling project wins award -Australia
Posted on November 10, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource The facility, which commenced operations in February 2022, has the capacity to recycle the equivalent of around 1 billion 600ml PET plastic beverage bottles each year into high-quality food-grade resin. Cleanaway collects, sorts and delivers PET plastic waste from kerbside...
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Viruses can hitchhike on microplastics – Australia
Posted on November 10, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Microplastics are not just tiny particles that can be ingested. They can also carry viruses, a University of Queensland study has revealed. “We found that viruses can hitchhike on microplastics and prolong their infectivity. It means there could be...
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Coles, Woolworths recycling scheme collapses after secret stockpiles revealed
Posted on November 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Australia’s largest plastic bag recycling program has collapsed amid revelations hundreds of millions of bags and other soft plastic items dropped off by customers at Coles and Woolworths are being secretly stockpiled in warehouses and not recycled. Instead of being...
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‘It’s greenwash’: most home compostable plastics don’t work, says study – UK
Posted on November 4, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Materials put into domestic compost are failing to disintegrate after six months – the only solution is to use less. “The bottom line is that home compostable plastics don’t work,” said Prof Mark Miodownik, an author of Continue reading this entry →