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Wingecarribee Council starts soft plastic collection trial
Posted on March 19, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA new soft plastic recycling trial is about to get underway at Wingecarribee Shire Council’s Moss Vale Community Recycling Centre. Source: Wingecarribee Council starts soft plastic collection trial - Inside Waste Soft plastics collected at the Wingecarribee Community Recycling Centre...
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Why Papier-Mettler pulled out of planned infrastructure investment – Australia
Posted on January 24, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingWhich brings us to Papier-Mettler. The family-run German company was founded in 1957 by Hans Georg Mettler as a paper wholesaler business Source: Why Papier-Mettler pulled out of planned infrastructure investment - Inside Waste “The sustainability and the success of recycling...
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Plastic packaging waste tax could raise billions – Australia
Posted on January 24, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingNew research from the Australia Institute shows a European Union-style tax on plastic packaging could raise nearly $1.5 billion each year. Source: Plastic packaging waste tax could raise billions - Waste Management Review “We’re recovering less than a fifth of...
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Size does matter in city waste stakes
Posted on January 23, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsWaste is a natural by-product of life on Earth and of productive human economies. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute waste — creatures like dung beetles fill an ecological niche of breaking down other organisms’ faeces — but...
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Canada Plastics Pact sees long road to fix Canada’s flexible plastics recycling – Canada
Posted on January 6, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA Canadian industry group has a pouch full of recommendations for addressing the major challenges in recycling flexible plastic packaging. Source: Canada Plastics Pact sees long road to fix Canada's flexible plastics recycling | Plastics News Boosting flexible plastic packaging recycling...
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CPA Altona – biggest MRF opens in Victoria – Australia
Posted on December 19, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Circular Plastics Australia (CPA Altona PET) plant will convert used beverage bottles, into high-quality food-grade resin. Source: CPA Altona - biggest MRF opens in Victoria - Inside Waste The world-class facility is the biggest of its kind in Victoria...
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Bioplastics seeks its place in plastics treaty talks 2024
Posted on December 15, 2023 by DrRossH in BioPlastics, Plastic RecyclingRepresentatives of the small bioplastics sector were on hand at the latest round of plastics treaty talks in Kenya Nov. 13-19 to argue that negotiators were glossing over a key point: that their materials can cut the link between plastics...
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Licella advanced plastics recycling technology goes live in world first facility – UK
Posted on November 22, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingConstruction of a world-first facility using the advanced plastics recycling platform Cat-HTR developed by Licella is complete. Source: Licella advanced plastics recycling technology goes live in world first facility - Waste Management Review The ReNew ELP facility, based in Wilton International,...
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Ministers step in to regulate Australian packaging – Australia
Posted on November 17, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingIndustry bodies have welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of an ambitious new course for sustainable packaging in Australia. At the Environment Ministers’ Meeting held in Adelaide last week, ministers agreed that the Federal Government would step up as the new regulator...
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Who Said Recycling Was Green? It Makes Microplastics By the Ton – Inside Climate News
Posted on November 11, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingResearch out of Scotland suggests that the chopping, shredding and washing of plastic in recycling facilities may turn as much as six to 13 percent of incoming waste into microplastics—tiny, toxic particles that are an emerging and ubiquitous environmental health...
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