Marks & Spencer (M&S) will launch a brand new international partnership to help UNICEF transform the lives of vulnerable children across the world by providing life changing education. Employees and customers at M&S’s 420 ...
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A former aerospace designer skillfully turns trash into cash, as well as contemporary works of art. DelMuro Ray (Ray DelMuro) hopes his efforts to save 10 million bottles from reaching the landfill. A former designer of the California ...
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Mountains of recyclable glass have been piling up ever higher at centres in and around Montreal, ever since Klareco, a glass processing plant in Longueuil that prepared about 70 per cent of the glass in Quebec for recycling shut down last ...
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Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has announced the launch of a new recycling initiative for plastic bottles, which will run for six weeks initially. The new 'Don't Waste. Create' campaign aimed at getting the public to think creatively about ...
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Reusable shopping and restaurant bags manufacturer Command Packaging has announced the opening the new agricultural plastic recycling facility Encore Recycling in Salinas, California, US. Expected to commence operations in October 2013, ...
PET is the largest plastic material recycled in Europe, with the equivalent of more than 60 billion bottles recycled in 2012. PETCORE EUROPE Chairman Roberto Bertaggia says: "Despite the poor economic situation in the European region, the ...
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The expansion increases production capacity at the plant by more than 50% to greater than 600,000 metric tons of aluminium sheet per year. The $340m investment represents the largest capital expansion by Novelis in South America in the ...
2013 has brought about some amazing trends in both commercial and residential carpets. These trends are far more intrinsic than simple—or sophisticated—aesthetics. New fiber systems, improved performance characteristics and ...
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Bunnings has exchanged contracts with BWP Trust (BWP) for the sale and leaseback of 10 Bunnings Warehouse stores. When completed in full it will realise in excess of A$271 million. The portfolio consists of prime assets located throughout ...
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The European Furniture Industries Confederation (EFIC) and the Austrian Furniture Industry Association have joined in the criticism of the new French furniture-recycling system. The two associations criticize in particular what is in their ...
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The Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (SMART) Association, Bel Air, Md., has developed a set of documents including a position paper and draft legislative language to help local governments establish procedures to manage clothing ...
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The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) recently announced the release of a policy on bans and fees for recyclable paper and plastic bags approved during its July Board Meeting. The policy is in response to increased efforts ...
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HALIFAX -- With a long weekend approaching and a provincial election drawing closer, Nova Scotia's NDP government scrambled to deny a report Thursday suggesting it was poised to impose new recycling fees that would, among other things, ...
Austria-based BT-Wolfgang Binder has built a glass powder plant for Dutch glass foam producer Geocell. The new plant, located in upper Austria, will produce foam glass ballast from recycled glass. BT-Wolfgang Binder was involved in the ...
On July 29, Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. (TISCO) announced that a successful hot run test was completed at its new ultra-fine steel slag production line No. 2 on July 22, with TISCO now ...
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