ECO Plastics, Europe’s leading plastic bottle recycler, has raised £24m to drive expansion plans at its Hemswell recycling facility. The funds provide a solid financial platform for the company’s exciting expansion plans, including their joint venture with Coca-Cola Enterprises - unveiled in March - which will more than double British production of food-grade recycled material (rPET) for soft drinks packaging.
Honda declared that it has succeeded in meeting a significant target of its Green Factory or ‘zero-waste-to-landfill’ program in North America.
Worldwide demand for photovoltaic (PV) solar cells is fuelling the emergence of a strong manufacturing sector across Europe and Asia. In support, the Sysmex FPIA-3000 Flow Particle Image Analyzer from Malvern Instruments is being used to aid cost control and waste reduction by providing the particle size and shape data necessary for effective recycling of the high value slurries used in cutting silicon wafers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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