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The overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s on fire. 
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This is hardly what Americans envision when they drop off glitchy laptops or broken printers at their local recycling drop-off center. Yet, what fuels these Southeast Asian scrapyards is junk from afar — typically more affluent places such as Europe, Australia and the US.
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The acquisition delivers a large-scale solution to impending waste and recycling challenges.
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Interesting that that Chinese ban on materials for the recycling/waste stream could stimulate an internal to America network for materials going into the recycling pipeline.
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No amount of post-consumer recycling can recoup the waste generated before consumers purchase their devices.
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A California man who built a business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that the “restore discs” he made to extend computers’ lives had no financial value, instead ruling that he'd infringed Microsoft products.
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Two Egyptian women have redesigned a Swedish classic in the name of sustainability. Attendees of last week's IKEA Democratic Design open house in Älmhult, Sweden cooed over sparkly, silver versions of the company's Frakta shopping bag. This latest incarnation of the iconic IKEA workhorse bag is the work of Mariam Hazem and Hend Riad, founders of Reform Studio, a desig
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It's not easy going green for food festivals. They produce a ton of waste. But the organizer of the LA Food Fest is trying.
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Deutsche Version: http://news.bio-based.eu/kompostierbare-plastiktueten-schaffen-maerkte-und-perspektiven nova-Institute publishes the first comprehensive market study on the consumption of biodegradable and compostable plastic products in Europe: 100,000 tonnes in 2015, market demand could grow to beyond 300,000 tonnes in 2020. Compostable plastic bags dominate the … Continue reading →
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DeMenno/Kerdoon largest recyclers of motor oils in the Western United States.
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This DK plant deals with recycling motor oil, anti-frezze, oil water and is also one of the largest plants in the United States.
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Millions of tonnes of old electronic goods illegally exported to developing countries, as people dump luxury items
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Lists several databases and tools available to local government solid waste planners, jurisdictions and the public that were created by staff of CalRecycle. These tools link to CalRecycle's more comprehensive (and newer) Local Government Central site.
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An array of tools quantifying the waste streams in California.
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Newlight Technologies' patented system extracts carbon from the air and converts it into long-chain polymers that can be used as substitutes for oil-based plastics. Via clare wormald
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Your chairs, synthetic rugs and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa, rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum, scientists are now reporting. The novel process they developed and their results could help the world deal with its agricultural and plastic waste problems.
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John Villanti pulls his car up to a recycling kiosk in a shopping plaza off of Moorpark Road in Thousand Oaks. He opens the trunk, which is packed with
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Giant Food stores is moving straight towards its zero waste goal through its dedication towards becoming one of the most environmentally friendly grocers in the U.S. As part of its sustainable retailer commitment, the company announced that it's Cleona, PA store located at 481 West Penn Ave., is the first in the chain to reach zero waste. A recognized definition by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, zero waste means 90 percent or more of a store’s total waste is being diverted from a landfill or incineration. Currently, 77 percent of all waste generated by its stores is diverted through recycling and composting. Via EcoVadis
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September 12, 2018 8:11 AM
Great job Giant Food Store! Countries often don’t have the infrastructure required to ethically or efficiently handle waste recycling, leading to a buildup of harmful chemicals that affect populations near dumping sites
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All those folded Amazon, Walmart and eBay boxes seem like a testament to Americans' diligent recycling efforts. But a USA TODAY analysis of industry studies shows Americans are sending more corrugated cardboard to the landfill than to recycling plants compared to past years.
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Improving visibility across the supply chain means knowing where food waste is generated. It puts organizations like yours in a position to identify possible causes and take preventative action. Via EcoVadis
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A nice slide deck in here with examples of specific European companies that have taken steps to reduce food waste.
EcoVadis's curator insight,
May 24, 2018 1:17 AM
Supply chain visibility is key challenge throughout the food industry.
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Where do your coffee cups, clothes and household appliances go to die? New documentary Trash Trail traces the afterlife of consumer goods in Singapor
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I've not seen these videos in person yet, but the descriptions look great. Another example of the "hidden" costs of our traditional economic/development pathways.
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Researchers figure that roughly a third of all the food we produce is never eaten. In Paris, a new restaurant is taking a small slice out of all that waste by salvaging discarded food from a local market, cooking it up into fine cuisine, and serving it on a "pay-what-you-can" basis to a clientele that includes some of the city's neediest residents.
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Waste not, want not.
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But local bottled water reps complain their healthy beverage is being singled out.
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Go Montreal!
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Unfortunately, the movement to mainstream food scraps recovery and composting is poised to suffer another black-eye with the now eminent closure of Peninsula Compost’s Wilmington Organic Recycling Center.
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From
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The full report, which is released every two years, contains data on: MSW generation, recovery, and disposal from 1960 to 2011;Per capita generation and discard rates;Source reduction (waste prevention);Materials and products that are in the waste stream;Aggregate data on the infrastructure for MSW management, including estimates of the number of curbside recycling programs, composting programs, and landfills in the US; andTrends in MSW management from 1960 to 2011, including source reduction, recycling and composting, and disposal via combustion
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The most recent data for the USA in aggregate. Currently the 2011 data set is the most recent available.
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Information about California's 2013 per capita disposal rate as determined by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
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California's waste stream in a form local governments can use it.
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It seems that it was just yesterday that people drank water from bubblers, and that buying a cold drink meant buying Coke, Pepsi, or 7-Up. But over the past 30 years, there has been a huge shift in what we're drinking -- and how much of it we're drinking, and even where we are drinking it. Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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This has huge implications for our waste stream and for encouraging the mindset that we don't just chuck something to the side of the road when we are done with it.
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