Smart Planet Technologies has launched the reCUP Recycling Initiative to address global paper cup recycling problem. The Recycling Initiative has been launched with support from Southern California based recycling partners, Allan Company, ...
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The Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group (PCRRG) said there has been a considerable progress in its 2020 goal in the UK of seeing more used paper cups that are recovered and recycled sustainably. The organization is made up of member ...
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The Carton Council of North America has announced the success of a program that is using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic systems to collect cartons more efficiently at the Alpine Waste & Recycling's material recovery facility in ...
Tags: AI-Driven Robot, Beverage Cartons
China's securities regulator announced on Friday that it has registered the first batch of Mainland-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF). China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has registered three Hong Kong funds under the ...
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Solid waste management company Renew Bahamas has set up the first-of-its-kind materials recycling facility (MRF) in the Bahamas, to process residential and commercial waste. The unit, commissioned by Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie, ...
Tire maker MRF is planning to increase the production capacity at eight of its manufacturing facilities across India which is part of its capital expenditure plan. The company is planning to invest around Rs 4,000 crore ($64 m) over the ...
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South Carolina-based packaging products firm Sonoco has begun operation of a fully automated Material Recycling Facility (MRF) to process kerbside collected dual stream residential and commercial waste materials from the Raleigh and Wake ...
H&A Recycling will install a new industrial scale Bio-Thermic Digester (BTD) from a major Advetec reseller Biozolve to reduce organic waste disposal costs by 400,000 every year. This investment is expected to help the company reduce its ...
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Lismore mayor, Jenny Dowell, and Lismore MP, Thomas George, turned the first sod in the construction process for the new $3.65m Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and glass processing plant in Lismore nine months ago. it was completed this ...
The Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF) today announced it has entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess MRF-008, as a potential therapeutic for multiple sclerosis ...
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I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
As environment ministers await the final economic analysis on a national container deposit system(CDS), a recently released study has confirmed significant savings for local councils.* “Some members of the beverage and packaging ...
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The recycling of rigid plastics, excluding bottles, climbed 13 percent in 2011 to reach at least 934 million pounds for the year, and U.S. consumers with local access to recycle all non-bottle rigid plastics shot from 40 percent to 57 ...
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According to PAFA, the variable quality of recyclate has long acted as "a damper on the recycling sector in the UK". The association added that it will be working with other members of the recycling supply chain to ensure that action is ...
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Around the world almost without exception in the hollow glass field, cullet is used to supplement raw materials in the batch. In fact nearly all modern furnaces require cullet to be present in order to function at all. Cullet is therefore ...
Tags: Cullet Quality, glass field, glass market