Recycling

Adds detail on agreement COPENHAGEN, June 9 (Reuters) - Norsk Hydro NHY.OL has agreed to buy land in Spain for the construction of an aluminium recycling plant, the Norwegian metal and renewable energy company said on Friday. Norsk Hydro estimates the total investment in the project will total 130 million-140…

Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water In an Australian first, packaging will soon be subject to strict new government rules aimed at cutting waste and boosting recycling, thanks to a historic agreement struck at a national meeting of environment ministers today. These new rules will help make sure…

Up to 80 tons of plastic waste per year will be shipped from Arla’s Rødkærsbro cheese factory in Denmark to a German plant run by packaging manufacturer Südpack. The waste material – comprising multi-layered plastic films in which mozzarella cheese matures – cannot be mechanically recycled in Denmark and has…

Robotics play an important role in commercial and industrial applications and Australian company, Tetra Pak has just announced an Australian-first. The company has partnered with Australian Paper Recovery (APR) Kerbside to implement an AI robot that can identify, and sort used Tetra Pak beverage cartons. The robot uses computer vision to…

Nelson Mandela University scientist Dr Jabulani Mnyango has found an eco-friendly method to recover high-quality rubber from end-of-life tyres using wild garlic. Old car tyres are a huge waste problem in SA. The recycling challenge, according to Mnyango, who graduated with his PhD in chemistry earlier in April, is to…

The ACT will be without a recycling facility until at least 2025 with the government pushing back the expected opening of a new centre, in the wake of the Boxing Day fire. The Hume facility was completely destroyed when fire believed to be sparked from overheated lithium-ion batteries tore through,…

On April 22nd, JD Logistics announced that it will gradually introduce 1.5 million units of reusable express packaging and promote a shared recycling model for such packaging. By the end of 2024, this initiative alone will reduce over 100 million disposable packages including cardboard boxes, foam boxes, plastic bags and…

Ken Maurice of Aurora was happy to get a little spring cleaning out of the way Saturday morning as the city of Aurora hosted its spring electronics recycling drive-thru event. “We got a large screen flat TV, an old PC that should have been gotten rid of a long time…

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced with permission. Getting rid of old batteries can be a hassle. But for recycling startup Ascend Elements, other people’s garbage is basically a gold mine, if not better. The Massachusetts-based company opened a recycling plant in Covington, Georgia in late March that…

How sure are you that that item can be recycled? (Image credit: Maskot via Getty Images) Throwing bottles in the garbage instead of the recycling can isn't great for the environment. But over-recycling can be a far more insidious problem. When we indiscriminately toss garbage into recycling bins — a…