New figures released by the Environment Agency this month demonstrate a year on year increase in lamp recycling rates. In 2012 the tonnage of waste lamps recycled by all Producer Compliance Schemes in the UK was 39.5 per cent of the tonnage ...
Momentum Recycling opened the doors to its new glass recycling plant in Salt Lake City. Dozens of customers, suppliers, citizens and local government officials gathered to celebrate the grand opening, the company said. Momentum ...
Tags: Glass Recycling Plant, Glass
Demand for recycled-content packaging materials continues to grow in the U.S. But the market and infrastructure for collecting used materials suffers somewhat from various limitations, whether they be financial, logistical or emotional. ...
Tags: packaging materials, packaging
Legislation before the Maryland Senate would significantly increase recycling rates, while reducing energy use and emissions, noted Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), in testimony offered today before the Senate ...
Tags: Glass Packaging, Recycling Legislation, GPI
The latest declared glass recycling rate in South Africa is now, according to The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC), 40.1%; a 230% growth in annual volumes recycled since the inception of TGRC six years ago. Evidence of a shift in consumer ...
Coca Cola has ended its involvement with the Northern Territory cash for containers scheme, following its recent, possibly temporary, court victory. The Boomerang Alliance of 26 environment groups have urged the NT government not to be ...
The Federal Court, last month, ruled in favour of the beverage company after it argued the Northern Territory government’s 10c deposit recycling scheme – introduced in January 2012 and similar to a scheme that has been running ...
The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has launched a $5m, five-year industry investment solution NT Bin Network for the Northern Territory to boost recycling rates and reduce litter arising from packaging. According to AFGC, the ...
Tags: Recycling Scheme, Drop off recycling facilities, industry investment
Proving that the concept of business-driven extended producer responsibility (EPR) is gaining favor amongst environmentally conscious brands, Recycling Reinvented announced it has received a pledge of support from New Belgium Brewing Co., a ...
Tags: EPR, Belgium Brewing, Supporters
The programme has covered 31 local authorities and, according Rick Hindley, executive director of the scheme’s programme managers Alupro, MetalMatters has been aided by the combination of the public and private sector. The programme ...
Arrowhead Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water—the brand that introduced its new 0.5L ReBorn bottle made with 50 percent recycled plastic (rPET) and launched its "Recycling is a Beautiful Thing" campaign in November 2012—is taking ...
News reports indicate that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may propose restrictions on the use of polystyrene foam foodservice products in New York City, ostensibly as a way to increase recycling rates. American Chemistry Council (ACC) vice ...
Tags: polystyrene foam foodservice products, Plastics makers
The news came from the Environment Agency, which revealed yesterday that five companies, who were not named, had “been identified as not meeting their obligations” under the PRN and PERN systems. “The relevant agencies are ...
Tags: Five Companies, Investigation, UK Recycling, 2012
On Feb. 13-14, 2013, the healthcare industry's major players will convene at the 12th edition of Pharmapack Europe at Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris). More than 3,000 visitors from four continents and more than 290 international ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Packaging Experts, Key Issues
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 ...
Tags: Keep America Beautiful, Coca-Cola, Recycling Bin Grant Program