Global recycler of aluminum beverage cans Novelis has reported a rise in the recycled content of its products from 33% to 39% in the first year since announcing its goal to achieve 80% recycled content by 2020. The US-based company ...
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The city of San Francisco is seen as the greenest city in the US and is keen on adopting measures to treat packaging waste as resources, which include plastic bags and glass bottles. IBM Research said because of the high value of recycled ...
Tags: Garbage, packaging waste, plastic bags, glass bottles
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 ...
UK-based supplier of sacks, bags and speciality products Cromwell Polythene has launched a new website webuypolythene.com, an offshoot of its recycling division which is expected to help the company secure better volumes of transit ...
Covanta WBH, a waste disposal firm, has entered into an agreement with the city of Tulsa in Oklahoma that extends its contract to offer waste disposal services by ten years, with a provision for further extensions. Tulsa's ...
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UK-based Kenco has partnered with recycling incentive specialist TerraCycle to create the UK's first scheme that urges customers to recycle all brands of coffee packaging waste. Many councils in the country do not deal with the materials ...
Symrise has opened a €12m flavors and fragrances center in São Paulo, Brazil, as a part of its effort to strengthen the development of products tailored for the Latin American market. The Center of Excellence will combine ...
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Cleaning product company Method is all set to launch its two-in-one hand and dish soap in new bottles made from a combination of plastic recovered from the ocean and post-consumer recycled plastic. Method co-founder and chief greenskeeper ...
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Indian producer of polyester granules, JBF Industries has awarded a contract to plant engineering and construction company Uhde Inventa-Fischer to build a PET plant in Geel, Belgium. The plant will have an annual total name plate capacity ...
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European plastic pallet manufacturers Cabka and Innova Packaging System (IPS) have merged under the newly-founded Cabka Group, in a bid to improve their market positions. According to IPS, the Cabka and IPS labels will remain intact, ...
850 high-quality visitors came to preview the fabrics and private label collections offered by fashion co-contractors at the October 2012 show, down 15% year-on-year because of the sluggish economic climate. Fast Fashion London remains ...
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Every Can Counts, a can recycling campaign, would work with Weymouth and Portland Borough Council to boost on-street recycling as the coming days witness more people visiting the town as tourists and spectators. The recycling message ...
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Fiber packaging firm Evergreen Packaging has launched the portal choosecartons.com to raise awareness about green packaging products and promote carton recycling. According to the firm, 70% of the Evergreen cartons are made of paper, ...
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Plastics converters, recyclers and collectors in Europe have announced the launch of a new European wide certification and audit scheme, EuCertPlast which implements existing CEN standard 15343 on post-consumer plastics recycling. ...
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Mil-tek Recycling & Waste Solutions is pursuing efforts to avoid wastage resulting from polystyrene containers in which electronic components often are shipped, and the measures were adopted after a top executive of a supermarket had a ...
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