The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Bellflower, Calif. yesterday celebrated the grand opening of "Fronk's," a new restaurant built on a former gas station with help from $65,000 in funds from EPA's Brownfields and ...
Tags: Service, certification, EPA
With the oven ablaze melting shattered glass in the workshop and the nearby store abuzz with curious customers, it is hard to imagine that just a few months ago Lebanon’s last glass blower was about to close shop for good. On a ...
Tags: Recycled Bottles, Glass Blower
IFCO SYSTEMS, the global leader in Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh products, today announced the expansion of its life cycle assessment research comparing RPCs and display-ready corrugated boxes used to ship fresh produce to ...
Tags: Plastic Containers, Packaging
UK-based Plastics scrap trading firm GFSL will unveil a new mixed rigid plastic recycling plant at the Wilton International estate in Redcar. The company's new plant will process about 20,000 tonnes of mixed rigid plastics annually with a ...
Packaging solutions provider Tetra Pak has introduced new Tetra Top carton package with separable top in a bid to facilitate recycling. The new packaging is said to enable consumers remove the plastic top from the carton sleeve with a ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Carton Package
Media are invited to join Progressive Waste Solutions president and CEO Joseph Quarin and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky as they announce Progressive Waste's investment in TerraCycle, which will vastly increase recycling opportunities for ...
Tags: TerraCycle, Progressive Waste Solutions, fundraisers, cigarette butts
Two thousand and thirteen marked a year of significant expansion of carton recycling. Thanks to collaborative industry efforts and support from communities nationwide, 48 percent of U.S. households now have access to carton recycling. ...
Tags: USA, recycle carton, county and municipality, community
The announcement of the 12-month contract is the latest in a trend which has seen a growing portion of the industry move away from spot trading and instead develop long term collaborations, and advancing the circular-economy model. These ...
Tags: Eco Plastics, Viridor, Recycled Bottles
Smithers Pira, in association with Packaging Digest and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, will bring together leading brand owners; packaging manufacturers, converters and designers; sustainability leaders and more for the 8th annual ...
Tags: Sustainable Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Construction waste management comprises of various ways to recycle and reuse the waste material that is left over at the construction sites. Some of this waste that is found is inorganic like it has paper, plastics and some of them are ...
TransForce announced today it has met all the conditions required to close its deal to acquire Clarke Transport and Clarke Road Transport. The deal should conclude Jan. 1, 2014, the company announced. Clarke Transport is an LTL intermodal ...
Tags: transportation, TransForce
This week, TransForce announced two new deals, back-to-back: an agreement with Waste Management of Canada Corporation and the approved acquisition of Clarke Transport Inc. The agreement with Waste Management allows TransForce to use about ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, Transforce
A city of Laramie task force identified collection and transportation as the two main impediments to a glass recycling program. On Nov. 1, Ark Regional Services discontinued its glass recycling services — which were costing the ...
Tags: Glass Diversion, Construction
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that it was awarded a framework management contract by Horizon Nuclear Power to provide engineering support and related services for two new nuclear power generation plants the ...
Tags: Jacobs Engineering, Horizon Nuclear Power, nuclear power generation
The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its third annual "Best of Green Schools" list, which recognizes top educational institutions, individuals and initiatives across the country for environmental ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Green Construction