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Looking after the web of life
Posted on February 23, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsDr David Susuki is a great person to be admired. Telling a majour softdrink drink company their product is harmful and the should cease to exist is a lot of frankness we all should be saying. Looking after the...
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Japan’s holistic approach to recycling
Posted on February 23, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAre we surprised that the Japanese can do this so well, when other countries in the West seem to do very little? Read about all the resources recovered. Japan's holistic approach to recycling | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk.
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Biodegradable plastic with additives a disaster – PFSA
Posted on February 21, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsOxodegradable additives causing recycling concerns in South Africa Biodegradable plastic with additives a disaster - PFSA.
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Oxo-degradable plastics may not be as `green` as producers claim
Posted on February 21, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAnother example of the need to take care when listening to salesmen or reading advertising information about the green aspects of a product. With most of the 'green' industry for plastics unregulated, anyone can say anything to make their plastic...
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Retailer Ditches Oxo-Degradable Bags
Posted on February 16, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAug 25 - Retailer Ditches Oxo-Degradable Bags | Californians Against Waste. More green washing claims questioned and a large client drops oxodegradable plastics as a viable means to eliminate plastic waste.
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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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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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Whereabouts of Plastic Recycling locations to be more accessible
Posted on February 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsMany consumers have questions about where and how to recycle their plastics, and because collection differs from municipality to municipality, the answers aren’t always easy to find. With 90% of plastics in the USA still going to landfills, we have...
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A plastic bottle by any other name is still a plastic bottle
Posted on February 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsReview the article on this weblink to read about the misconceptions being spread about the plastic plant based bottles by Coke and Pepsi. Their claims of a green bottle are not so green. They are just as big of...
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