An op ed in Tuesday’s New York Times praised Mayor Bloomberg for expanding New York City’s recycling program to include, among other items, rigid plastics, such as toys, yogurt cups and plastic forks and knives. Reversing New York’s decade long drop in recycling rates is a worthy goal that will improve the quality of life [...]
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Cleveland evaluates integrated energy generation and recycling project
We noted with interest last week that the city of Cleveland is evaluating options for the development of an integrated waste management center that likely would include both recycling and energy recovery technologies. The story comes via Waste Management World, which writes that Cleveland has explored a variety of innovative technologies, including thermal conversion, pyrolysis, [...]
Recycling of rigid plastics achieves major milestone
Here’s a Hint: There’s a Good Chance You Can Recycle them in Your Area This week, there’s much good news to report on the recycling of rigid plastics, a category that includes cups, tubs and containers as well as larger items like toys and laundry baskets. According to new data, recycling of rigid plastics (excluding [...]
Plastic film recycling reaches 1 billion pounds annually
It’s always encouraging to see that Americans are recycling more of the materials they use every day, so we were pleased to see that plastic film recycling — the category of plastic recycling that includes plastic bags, product wraps and commercial shrink film — has grown so dramatically in just six years. According to a [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… and Recover
Most of us have heard the phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” and today more and more voices are adding a fourth “R” to the mix to help ensure our nation’s energy future: Recover. As in recovering energy from waste. All four “Rs” play a key role in the U.S. EPA’s waste management hierarchy, and according to [...]
For Sweden, trash equals cash
Waste not, want not. Or so the expression goes. It’s conventional wisdom, logical and time tested. After all, we learned it from our parents and grandparents. And it’s what makes Sweden’s current waste management situation so interesting. Like many nations around the globe, Sweden deploys a combination of recycling and conversion technologies that work together [...]
Download the all-new Bin It app and get rewarded for recycling
Last year when we decided to create Bin It!, the recycling game for iPhone and iPad, we were looking to combine the entertainment value of a colorful, visual, fun mobile app with useful information about plastics recycling to help people really connect with and get excited about recycling. The initial launch was so well received [...]
University of Texas-Austin study demonstrates potential of engineered fuel
Last week, Dr. Michael Webber of the University of Texas at Austin together with ACC released a recent study that reaffirms the potential of everyday waste as an abundant, affordable and domestic energy source (press release, full study). Dr. Webber’s study included a pilot project in which his team used an engineered fuel created by [...]
Cocurrent BioEnergy looks to turn West Virginia waste into energy
A New York-based company wants to turn West Virginia’s waste into usable energy. Cocurrent BioEnergy has proposed to local officials a series of facilities that could process thousands of tons of unsorted municipal solid waste, creating synthetic gas that would be used to heat water, create steam and generate electricity for communities. The proposal made [...]
AMC’s “The Pitch” spotlights growing trend toward deriving value from waste
A few weeks ago, the premiere of AMC’s ad agency reality show, “The Pitch,” featured two firms battling to lead a major campaign for Waste Management, Inc. Waste Management is interested in promoting the energy recovery aspects of its business and kicked off the competition by telling the agencies: The assignment is to create awareness [...]
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