U.S. demand for produce packaging is forecast to increase 3.3 percent per year to $5.7 billion in 2017. Growth will outpace expected expansion in fresh produce production, reflecting the important role of packaging in the protection, safety ...
I keep hearing, even among some in the alternative media, that the overpopulation of humans on our planet is a myth because "all the people in the world could fit in the state of Texas." Sure they can, but then where would they pee? ...
Tags: overpopulation, MYTH
With this coming February being American Heart Month and with the holiday gluttony behind us, maybe this is a good time to look at the causes and cure for heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in civilized nations with ...
Wavien, Inc. announces the opening of a unique custom products service that can build targeted prototypes with various types and brands of LEDs, RLT recycling collars, lenses, and heat-sinks. Wavien, as a technology development and ...
Tags: LED Prototype, Lighting
The aluminum beverage can industry raised $133,695 for local charities by recycling 178,099 pounds of cans, which equates to more than 5.7 million beverage cans, for the Can Manufacturers Institute's (CMI) Great American Can RoundUp ...
Tags: beverage can, aluminum can
General Motors and Detroit Renewable Energy today announced a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from Metro Detroit into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly ...
Tags: General Motors, Renewable Energy
Thanks to the ready availability of affordable flat screens, many homes are renovating their computer and home entertainment setups to take advantage of high-resolution, low-footprint products. There's an inevitable problem, though: what ...
Tags: Glass Tile, Construction, Decoration
Wine industry leader in innovation Truett-Hurst Inc. wine company of Healdsburg, CA, says no to marketing green-washing. The release of the first paper wine bottle in the U.S. from Truett-Hurst Inc. is the real thing. The paper wine bottle, ...
Tags: Wine Bottle, Packaging
It is one of the latest forms of "greenwashing" that has many thinking they are "recycling" solid waste, but the practice of dumping biosolids (which is really just concentrated human waste) on farm fields is a serious environmental ...
Tags: local, farms, waste, fertilizer
Countless millions of pounds of leftover food go to waste every single year around the world, and a UK group has decided to put that waste to good use. Utilizing a roughly $1.2 million grant given to it from a waste minimization ...
Representatives from Del-Nat Tire Corp., the Memphis City Beautiful Commission and the Overton Park Conservancy participate in the tree planting ceremony at Overton Park as part of Del-Nat’s “Tires for Trees” program ...
It’s reported that Brazilian aluminum producer Alloys & Metals Reciclagem de Metais plans to save its cost at its operations in Para State by building a plant. The plant mainly works for reprocessing liquid metal. Alloys & Metals ...
On November 15, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) stated that it has received financial subsidies worth RMB 6.93 million ($1.14 million) from the Chinese central government for its work on a ...
Tags: Auto Recycler, Mineral
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that the billet caster supplied to Armenia-based ASCE Group OJSC commenced operations at the Charentsavan works in August. The two-strand caster is designed for annual ...
Tags: Steel Mill, Billet Caster
When the production phase of any film and non-woven happens, then it is more economic when the material losses that happen are reduced to a bare minimum. Here, we will delve into the benefits of using the 'in-line' recycling technology. ...
Tags: in-line, recycle, technology, benefit