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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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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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Expansion of container types essential for CDS – Australia
Posted on October 18, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource ‘NSW and Victorian government studies show there is overwhelming support from the community to this expansion to include wine, spirits, juices, cordials and larger containers,’’ said Angel. ‘‘Not only will it significantly increase high value recycling, reduce more litter...
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Study: Chemical recycling better for climate than virgin resin, landfills – USA
Posted on October 14, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource The CCNY study, however, did not seem to directly compare chemical recycling processes to traditional mechanical recycling technologies. Other studies have found a lower carbon footprint for mechanical recycling for plastics, vs. chemical recycling. A late September study from Zero Waste...
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$9 million investment in plastic recycling – Australia
Posted on September 27, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource More plastic will be recycled and turned into new products in New South Wales thanks to $9 million funding to support businesses transform their operations and access the latest plastic recycling technology. “At the moment, NSW produces about 800,000 tonnes...
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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 September 18, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource “The problem with pyrolysis is we should not be producing more fossil fuels,” said Judith Enck, a former regional director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the founder and executive director of Beyond Plastics, an environmental group. “We need...
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