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Campus California Introduces Cloth Collection Boxes to Collect Waste Cloth

Waste characterization studies performed for California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) and subsequently for CalRecycle for the period from 1999 to 2008 established that the volume of cast away or thrown out textile materials as residential waste into the landfills has increased in volumes and produce methane and other green house gases, thus harming the environment.

12 Jul 2011

B2B Soft and CExchange Associate to Introduce Green Exchange Program

B2B Soft, a business-to-business software solution providing company that specializes in offering retail management services for the retail segment of wireless/cellular industry, has declared its partnership with CExchange, a Carrollton, Texas-based e-waste recycling company.

12 Jul 2011

EUREKA Enables FCC Medioambiente to Gain Expertise in Treating Urban Waste

FCC Medioambiente, a Spainish firm, has received the environmental award sponsored by Expansión, a financial news paper, and Garrigues, a law firm in Spain, for its research in treating thousands of tons of rubbish for turning into biogas and compost.

5 Jul 2011

New Technology Saves Old Boats from the Being Dumped at the Bottom of the Sea

Nearly 5,000 recreational boats are retired and disposed of every year in Norway– either sunk to the bottom of the sea or burned in a bonfire. Now, researchers have developed a new method for recycling these vessels.

9 Jun 2011

Reportlinker Releases Report on Waste-to-Energy Technology Markets

Reportlinker.com has declared the inclusion of a new report titled ‘Waste-to-Energy Technology Markets: Thermal and Biological Processes for Electricity and Heat Generation from Municipal Solid Waste: Market Analysis and Forecasts’ in its range of report offerings.

8 Jun 2011

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Introduces Method to Convert Waste Heat into Electricity

Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under Scott Hunter, the team lead, is in the process of developing a technology that can convert the waste heat generated from various industrial processes into electric power.

23 May 2011

Steel Packaging Recycling Rates on the Increase in Europe

APEAL (the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging) releases the latest figures that demonstrate how recycling rates of steel packaging for Europe in 2009 increased by 2% to reach more than 72%.

15 May 2011

Stony Brook University Research Finds Decline in Recycling on Long Island

Recent study conducted by the Waste Reduction and Management Institute in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook (SoMAS) and the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University, has found a notable decrease of around 20% in recycling on Long Island.

25 Apr 2011

Bayer MaterialScience Introduces Recycled Material for Production of Bodywork Parts

Bayer MaterialScience has announced the availability of a polycarbonate and polyethylene terephthalate (PC+PET) mix for manufacturing horizontal body parts for use in automobiles by recycling the utilized industrial and consumer products.

15 Apr 2011

Bayer to Produce Plastics from Waste CO2 from the Energy Sector

Bayer is taking a new direction in the production of high-quality plastics with the help of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the energy sector. A pilot plant has come on stream at Chempark Leverkusen to trial the new process on a technical scale.

17 Feb 2011