Around the world almost without exception in the hollow glass field, cullet is used to supplement raw materials in the batch. In fact nearly all modern furnaces require cullet to be present in order to function at all. Cullet is therefore ...
Tags: Cullet Quality, glass field, glass market
US-based Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the Coca-Cola foundation have announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program. The Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, funded through a $300,000 ...
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Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The Coca-Cola Foundation today announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, a program designed to expand and support recycling in communities across America. The ...
Tags: KAB, Coca-Cola Foundation, Packaging Recycling Grant Program
LAS VEGAS — The mattress recycling issue is heating up. The International Sleep Products Assn. is sponsoring an educational session on the controversial issue at the Las Vegas Market. Set for Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 3 p.m. in World ...
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The Glass Packaging Institute has released an in-depth survey of ten bar, restaurant, and hotel glass container recycling programs in eight states. In addition to collecting data on containers and processes, economic details, and logistics, ...
As food and beverage cartons become more common on grocery store shelves, they are also becoming more common in curbside recycling bins. In 2009, a group of carton manufactures joined forces as the Carton Council to increase carton ...
Tags: Cartons Can, Packaging, Beverage Cartons
The IFAI Expo to be held on November 7-9 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is the platform that will be used by Fulflex, George C. Moore Co. and Darlington Fabrics to exhibit their joint capabilities to the projected 6,000 ...
Tags: IFAI, Fulflex, Moore, Darlington Fabrics, exhibit, fabric industry
Posted by Rick Lingle,Technical Editor--Packaging Digest,12/19/2012 4:26:01 PM Canadian Plastics Industry Association(CPIA)released a new report that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011.An ...
Tags: CPIA, plastic recycled, packaging, polystyrene
The American Beverage Association is honoring America Recycles Day by supporting a pilot project called "Recycle on the Go" in Palm Beach County, Florida, to increase the amount of recycled cans and bottles and decrease the amount of ...
Tags: Beverage Industry, Public Space Recycling, Space Recycling
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that over 31,000 tons of plastic, paper, metals and glass were recycled during 2011 by seventy-seven western Massachusetts municipalities. The recyclables were ...
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) has released a new report which informs that the recycling efforts by Canadians have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across the country. Moore ...
Plastic Ingenuity, a US-based custom thermoformer has teamed up with the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) to fund a grant program to collect and process PET thermoformed ...
Tags: Pet Recycling Program, PET thermoformed packaging, recycling facilities
DeltaTrak, a US-based provider of cold chain management, environmental monitoring and food safety solutions, has announced the opening of a new affiliate company in Guadalajara, Mexico. The new affiliate, known as DeltaTrak Mexico, will ...
Tags: Deltatrak, New Affiliate Company, Mexico
BC's LightRecycle Now Includes All Lighting Products British Columbia now has Canada's first comprehensive program to recycle all lighting products at no charge. LightRecycle is a non-profit program to recycle lighting products in ...
Tags: Lighting
The Levi's brand introduced a new collection of denim incorporating post-consumer waste, specifically recycled plastic bottles and food trays. Each Levi's Waste