The aluminum beverage can industry raised $133,695 for local charities by recycling 178,099 pounds of cans, which equates to more than 5.7 million beverage cans, for the Can Manufacturers Institute's (CMI) Great American Can RoundUp Industry Challenge. Ball Corporation came in first place in the annual competition by recycling nearly 50 percent of the entire amount collected – 88,473 pounds of cans. Rexam and Crown Holdings came in second and third place, respectively.
Covanta TARTECH, LLC, a joint venture of Covanta Energy Corporation, a world leader in sustainable waste management and renewable energy, and Germany-based TARTECH eco industries AG, announced today the commencement of operations of a metals recovery and recycling system at an ash monofill located in Peabody, MA.
AMTII Corporation and Adherent Technologies, Inc. (ATI) announced today their agreement in principle to partner in order to bring Adherent's Recycling of Carbon Fiber waste and Reactive Fiber Sizing technologies to market. They anticipate opening their first plant in the Oklahoma or Kansas area in 2014 that will service the significant industrial and aircraft manufacturing centers located in the region.
Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year.
At the annual Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards Thursday night, Entropex, a leading plastics recycler, received this year's Gold award for excellence in waste reduction.
What does the coastal community of Bolinas, California have in common with the impoverished island nation of Haiti? The surprising answer is a fledgling sanitation strategy whereby human waste is composted into nutrient-rich fertilizer, all supported by research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Gary Andersen.
CERN is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste.
A newly developed recycling process could make landfill sites filled with old shoes a thing of the past.
Hydroxyl (OH) radicals – known as the detergent of the atmosphere – decompose isoprene in the air. This leads to the creation of new OH radicals, which are then able to purify the air of other pollutants and trace gases. The scientific community had previously only been able to speculate about this mechanism.
The awards ceremony of the student competition entitled "Sustainable is beautiful" took place on 23rd September. On this occasion, the jury awarded a mention to the project "SIB" conceived by Ivan Lopes Ferreira and Ahmed Al-Atwi and the first prize to the project "Espace Verre", conceived by Christophe Alhanko and Simon Zangger.
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