Sims Metal Management expects tight ferrous scrap flows and US scrap processing overcapacity, two major headwinds impacting margins, to improve in its current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2014. The global scrap firm notes an improvement ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Mineral
The news comes as Wrap reported the Home Improvement Sector Commitment (HISC) ?a voluntary agreement set up by Wrap] has met its original targets of reducing both waste to landfill and packaging in the DIY sector. Wrap shows that ...
Eco-friendly, made-in-the-U.S.A. apparel brand Dirtball will launch “The Green Jean”. The Green Jean is made from cotton and recycled water bottles which have been repurposed to create high-quality cotton/polyester denim. Each ...
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The California Product Stewardship Council has awarded Armstrong Commercial Flooring with the 2013 Infinity Award, in recognition for the company's outstanding Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT) Flooring Recycling Program. The award was presented ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, floor
Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has entered into an agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International of Irving, Texas, for C645m ($614.11m). This move is a part of the Maple Leaf Foods' plan to focus ...
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Packaging successful adoption that contains recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) depends on minimizing contamination of the recyclate from caps, labels, inks adhesives and other sources in US. The first commercial product using the ...
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Temple has expanded its recycling program to enable members of the university community to recycle mixed plastics, numbers one to seven. Newly accepted items will include yogurt cups, clamshell containers, straws, iced coffee beverage ...
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Urban, Eco, Oversized Floor Cushions is how Melissa Booth of Eco Filling Australia describes the new product line. "When looking at how families like to relax we new it was imperative to make the floor cushions super sized and super ...
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President Xi Jinping's visit to a recycling company Monday drew renewed attention to environmentally friendly industries. Xi said recycling is a sunrise industry and that garbage is a misplaced resource, during his visit Monday to a ...
In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. First stage ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, the leading trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry in North America, has published an executive summary version of their recyclability design guides for packaging ...
If you should be working for a company that will require the destruction of documents and various pieces of data and you're responsible for making that important business relationship happen, you are likely to wish to be sure that you're ...
A few months back, I read an article in Packaging Digest about consumers taking responsibility for "green actions." After citing some statistics about how a "record-high 71 percent of Americans" are "buying with an eye toward green," the ...
Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, is to supply the main propulsion generating sets for a new, environmentally sound, double ended ferry. The ship, which is the first gas fuelled ferry for a ...
New York's Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced initiatives to support farmers across the state to reduce energy costs, improve business operations and enhance environmental planning. Governor Cuomo has inked a legislation that supports ...
Tags: Energy Efficient Farming