Central Atlanta Progress and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District have joined efforts with the Downtown office community to host a recycling drive for gently used textile materials September 16th through 27th, 2013. Four Downtown ...
Tags: Used Textile Materials, Apparel, Accessories, Textile
A Guelph factory would happily recycle glass from local blue boxes again — for an annual fee estimated at $84,000. Unwilling to pay, regional government has chosen instead to dump 3,000 tonnes of glass that Ontario compels it to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and InnoCentive have announced the winners of the second CRT Challenge. The goal of the CRT Challenge is to develop compelling economic and ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Recently, Baosteel Development Corporation along with Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences jointly established industrial environmental protection technology research and development center, which is an important cooperation ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
The 'Household Waste – Saved from Landfill' range is manufactured from flexible plastics collected in the UK and is claimed to be a world first for the recycling and film industries. Launched at the Recycling and Waste Management ...
The Subway brand is set to unveil a series of improvements to the sustainability of its packaging as well as operational procedures. The brand will serve its hot drinks to eat-in or take-away in double-wall sustainable cup, which is made ...
Textile Manufacturer Runs on 100% Solar Power, Launches New Brand of Sustainably Produced, American Made Products Spector Textile Products, a well established textile manufacturer in Lawrence, Massachusetts has taken the turn towards ...
Tags: Textile, US-Made, Laundry Bags
Global technology companies HP & Dell have called on Australian consumers to recycle more unwanted electronic goods. TechCollect has hosted a global e-waste forum in Sydney with keynote European technology speakers and local experts ...
The California State Assembly voted Wednesday to approve a mattress recycling bill supported by the International Sleep Products Assn. on a 63-10 bipartisan vote. SB 254 cleared a number of legislative hurdles in recent weeks and passed ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
Before the invention of the refrigerator, icehouses were used to provide cool storage for most of the year. Placed near freshwater lakes or packed with snow and ice during the winter, they were once very common. Natural means are still used ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Refrigerator, frige
Ohio's three big consumers of recycled glass clearly have a problem when it comes to repurposing the material into insulation and bottles: The state's residents and businesses aren't recycling enough. About 90 percent of glass containers ...
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Volunteers Needed for Glass Recycling Event Saturday CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Saturday is glass recycling day, and the City of Corpus Christi is asking residents to bring in glass to the Padre Island Property Association building on ...
Tags: Glass Recycling
Nijhuis Water Technology has acquired UK turnkey solutions provider H2OK Water and Energy. H2OK provides anaerobic digestion and effluent treatment to food and beverage customers around the UK and has a strong presence in the holiday and ...
Republic Services, a US-based provider of solid waste and recycling solutions, has unveiled its new materials recycling facility at Fort Worth in North Texas. The 90,000ft2 facility can collect and process over 500t of mixed recyclables ...
Tags: Republic Services, North Texas
Swedish food processing and packaging firm Tetra Pak has announced the delivery of more than 26 billion carton packages in 39 countries in 2012 with the Forest Stewardship Council logo (FSC), according to its Sustainability Update 2013. ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Carton Packages