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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Net income at US based value-added and recycled fibres producer Unifi, Inc climbed 46.52 per cent year over year for fiscal ended June 28, 2015. A Unifi press release informed that net income for fiscal 2015 totaled to $42.2 million or ...
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North Face, an apparel and footwear brand owned by VF Corporation said it has expanded its ‘Clothes The Loop’ recycling programme to all of its retail and outlet stores in the US. In tandem, it will also run an in-store and ...
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The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized Native American tribe located in northeastern Nebraska, and the Tribe’s Utilities Commission have reached a settlement with the United States to improve the Tribe’s drinking ...
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TOKYO — At a recycling center in Thailand’s Chonburi Province, Fuji Xerox disassembles some 4,000 tons a year of its used printers collected from various parts of Asia. Materials are sorted into nearly 90 different types, such ...
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The project features an expanded recycling center at its Pindamonhangaba site, and the combined projects will add 100,000 metric tons of coating capacity and 190,000 metric tons of recycling capacity when fully operational, creating over ...
Global drinks major Coca-Cola has announced plans to invest over $8.2bn in Mexico, under a partnership with eight local bottlers. As part of the investment plan, Coca-Cola will add new production lines, refrigeration equipment, trucks ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, invest, Agriculture
Novelis, a subsidiary of India-based Aditya Birla Group, has cast the first production-sized ingot at its €200m aluminum recycling and casting center in Nachterstedt, Germany. According to the company, the first production-sized ...
Tags: Aluminum Recycling, Novelis
Unifi, Inc. announces the expansion of its Recycling Center, which opened in Yadkinville, N.C., May 2010. The expansion comes as Unifi dials up its commitment to Premium Value Added products, like REPREVE, which continue to be a strategic ...
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Novelis, a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, has commissioned a new aluminum slitting and packing line at its joint-venture facility Aluminium Norf (Alunorf) located in Neuss, Germany. The line, which involved an investment of around ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the Homeca Recycling Center Co, Inc. and Tallaboa Industrial Park, LLC to clean up asbestos that spread from a building in the Tallaboa Industrial Park during demolition ...
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European market prices of the key grade of aluminum alloy, 226, slipped back by a further Eur10/mt ($14/mt) this week as buyers could take their pick of offers in a well-supplied market. "It's very calm. Last week there was a lot of ...
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Industrial packaging firm Mauser Group has introduced new plastic drum series manufactured at its recycling center in Erkelenz, Germany. The new Infinity Series of plastic drums, designed to transport hazardous goods, has been produced ...
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One of our readers from last month's article Make a PCB with your laser printer raised an interesting concern about the disposal of chemicals used to make a homemade PCB. In that particular article, we discussed making your own PCB using ...
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How many empty beer cans, soda bottles and fifths of vodka did you see as you left that off-campus party last Friday night? Where do you imagine they went the next day when the owners cleaned up the house? For 17 off-campus student houses ...
Tags: Recycles Cans, Glass