British waste and recycling company, Business Waste, says that a spike in the theft of paper and cardboard meant for recycling is to be blamed on scrap thieves who are looking for soft targets. The company feels that increased security ...
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South Carolina-based packaging products firm Sonoco has begun operation of a fully automated Material Recycling Facility (MRF) to process kerbside collected dual stream residential and commercial waste materials from the Raleigh and Wake ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a legal settlement with Losurdo Foods Inc. of Heuvelton, New York that will reduce the amount of pollutants the company discharges to the municipal water treatment plant. Losurdo has agreed ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Kronos Micronutrients to resolve violations of federal hazardous waste laws, according to an EPA settlement. The company is a fertilizer manufacturer in the town of ...
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Speaking at the RWM 2014 recycling and waste management event at the NEC, Pickles said he has always supported weekly collections and weekly waste food collections, but drew criticism from some sections of the audience – many of whom ...
H&A Recycling will install a new industrial scale Bio-Thermic Digester (BTD) from a major Advetec reseller Biozolve to reduce organic waste disposal costs by 400,000 every year. This investment is expected to help the company reduce its ...
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Agreement also includes $18,000 civil penalty for improper storage, handling and record-keeping SeaCast, Inc., a metal casting facility in Marysville, Washington, has agreed to pay The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a penalty of ...
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DALLAS – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $450,000 to the New Mexico Environment Department as the first funding portion of an annual $900,000 state program continuing grant. The grant helps to fund the ...
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Want blisters fast Integra 320’s pitch control system, together with Marchesini’s new cartoning section and carton opening and product insertion system, is able to boost production performance up to 320 blisters and more than ...
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Recycling is great when it works. To make it work, recyclable glass has to be separated from all the other material that ends up in recycling bins. In the UK, glass manufacturer, Ardagh, has just signed a fifteen year agreement with ...
Ardagh has three glass manufacturing plants in Yorkshire, and is partnering Reuse to increase the volume of cullet, which has so far boosted recycling for clear glass by 12%. West Yorkshire based Reuse is one of the UK’s leading ...
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Costing just a few pence, and coming with a guarantee of a free replacement, many shoppers don’t take up the offer and simply discard the used bag as soon as it shows signs of wear, the UK waste management company has found. ...
TOKYO — At a recycling center in Thailand’s Chonburi Province, Fuji Xerox disassembles some 4,000 tons a year of its used printers collected from various parts of Asia. Materials are sorted into nearly 90 different types, such ...
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A newly formed alliance seeks to serve as a global source for information, guidance and knowledge on indoor environmental quality. A memorandum of understanding creating the Indoor Environmental Quality Global Alliance was signed Sunday, ...
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The Foreign Trade Association (FTA) presents the Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI), its new business-driven service aimed at supporting retailers and importers to improve environmental performance of supplying factories ...
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