The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) congratulates Maryland Delegate Maggie McIntosh and State Senator Brian E. Frosh for their sponsorship of Maryland’s Recycle For Real legislation. In addition to GPI's glass container ...
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Using GE’s ZLD technology, the two power plants will be able to reduce incoming water needs by recycling and reusing more than 98% of its own cooling tower wastewater. GE will provide a brine concentrator and crystallizer for the ...
UK-based DS Smith Recycling is planning to close its materials recycling facility in Southampton which was bought from SCA Packaging in July 2012. Following its activities review in the wake of the SCA deal, DS Smith Recycling has ...
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Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end-products and primarily in windows and façades for buildings, windscreens and windows ...
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There isn't a shortage of rare earth metals in the ground, but one country, China, has managed to dominate about 95% of the market. It not only mines the metals, but it has built a supply chain to produce them. The U.S. once led global ...
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HIGH POINT — The California official heading revisions to that state's longtime flammability regulation and the scientist whose research prompted the urgent regulatory overhaul will both participate in the American Home Furnishings ...
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Australia-based Replas is set to build a new plastic recycling facility in 2013 in South East Queensland. Planned to funded equally by Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) and the Queensland Government, the $600,000 facility will ...
Global As part of global efforts to promote efficient lighting, United Nations Environment Programme with the support of the GEF Earth Fund, Philips Lighting and OSRAM GmbH has established the initiative. The initiative seeks to ...
November 15th is America Recycles Day, a national event started by the Keep America Beautiful organization, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency and various state agencies and manufacturers. Of course, recycling has to ...
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The government is considering legislation to make glass recycling mandatory, the environment minister said yesterday. Secretary for the Environment Wong Kam-sing said the legislation would target mainly wine and other beverage bottles. ...
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Disposing of dysprosium, terminating terbium, eliminating europium and nixing neodymium Shares of Molycorp (NYSE:MCP) plunged more than 22% to $8.33 in heavy volumes on Thursday after the rare earth miner served up more bad news to ...
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Levi Strauss&Co.,San Francisco,has introduced Levi's®WasteLess™,a collection of denim jeans and trucker jackets made using materials derived from post-consumer recycled(PCR)polyethylene terephthalate bottles and food trays.The ...
January 10,2013-Ontario's premier,Dalton McGuinty,today announced the Lambton and Nanticoke coal-fired generating plants will stop burning coal by the end of 2013,saying the early closure is a result of"Ontario's strong conservation ...
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Glen Raven Custom Fabrics LLC, Glen Raven, N.C., recently launched Sunbrella® Renaissance Unity awning and shade fabrics made using 50-percent post-industrial recycled Sunbrella solution-dyed acrylic fiber. The Unity fabrics, which ...
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For the second time the Intercontinental Hotel Beichen in Beijing played host to the Intersolar China Conference, a valuable platform for the Asian solar markets of the future, from December 11-13, 2012. 69 speakers from around the world ...
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