Recycling

If you’ve ever tossed a plastic water bottle in a trash can and felt a wave of guilt wash over you, well, judging by its marketing campaigns, that’s exactly how the packaging industry planned it. Consider this recent public service announcement, where two uncanny squirrel puppets sit in a tree,…

Two workers were found dead Sunday at a waste recycling plant in North Carolina, authorities said. The cause of death for the workers, who were employed at Valley Protein Inc.'s location in Fayetteville, was not immediately known. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office did not identify them. A sheriff's spokeswoman said…

Just after noon on Friday, police were called to the Cascades Recovery+ recycling facility on Sheffield Road, where the remains had been discovered inside. Author of the article: Matthew Lapierre Sept. 11, 2011: Ottawa homicide detectives are looking for information after the suspicious death of James Macauley Teasdale, 58. Human…

Councils in south London have been sending recycling waste to be incinerated because of a shortage of lorry drivers. Croydon and Sutton councils said recycling at some blocks of flats would be burnt because the shortages were causing issues to bin collection schedules. The councils are part of the South…

As of Friday afternoon, two police cars and a white van were at the scene at 2811 Sheffield Rd. Author of the article: Joanne Laucius Ottawa police investigate the scene at a recycling business on Sheffield Road on Friday. Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia Homicide investigators are on the case…

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Chile's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency has kicked off a campaign to promote business opportunities for companies in the recycling sector. Press Release - updated: Sep 7, 2021 SANTIAGO, Chile, September 7, 2021 (Newswire.com) - Chile urgently needs to increase its plastic recycling capacity and this opens up significant business opportunities…

Many efforts are underway to reduce the environmental impact of cars, but what about the tires those cars ride on? Continental thinks it might help. Roadshow reports the company has introduced the Conti GreenConcept (yes, a concept tire) where more than half of the materials are "traceable, renewable and recycled."…

In early 2018, residents of Boise, Idaho were told by city officials that a breakthrough technology could transform their hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-polluting fuel. The program, backed by Dow Inc, one of the world’s biggest plastics producers, was hailed locally as a greener alternative to burying it in the…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — States across the U.S. are looking to adopt new recycling regimes that require producers of packaging to pay for its inevitable disposal — but industry is digging in to try to halt the movement. Maine became the first state to adopt such a program in July…