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Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business Recycling

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

Recycling trash by picking it up and selling it, or buying it and converting it into profitable materials, has become a booming business in Zimbabwe, as the country and its citizens struggle under hyperinflation.Community-based recycling organizations, which handpick litter, quadrupled in the last few years, now picking up 15% of…
bubmag
August 21, 2023
Volvo FE Electric garbage trucks in use in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Recycling

Volvo FE Electric garbage trucks in use in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast

Volvo Trucks Australia and key waste management contractor, JJ’s Waste and Recycling have joined forces to trial the Volvo FE Electric in waste applications.  Affectionately dubbed “Oscar” by VGA staff, the 6×2 FE Electric featured on the Volvo Group Australia stand at the 2023 Brisbane Truck  Show. The truck has been…
bubmag
August 15, 2023
New recycling process could find markets for ‘junk’ plastic waste Recycling

New recycling process could find markets for ‘junk’ plastic waste

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics, are not recyclable using conventional mechanical recycling methods. In the end, only about 9 percent of plastic in the United States…
bubmag
August 11, 2023