Latest Recyclable materials News
Kingston University earns environmental accolade
With more than 22,000 students, Kingston University is the largest provider of higher education in South West London. Reducing carbon emissions and increasing the amount of waste it recycles has earned Kingston University a prestigious environmental accolade. Kingston University is the first academic institution to reach the third phase of the Institute’s Acorn BS8555 standard, a government-endorsed scheme similar to the Kitemark system. Remo... [more]
Re-Bound transforms recycled tyres into bark chippings for landscaping and play areas
A multi-million pound deal has been struck to form the UK’s largest manufacturer and supplier of recycled rubber garden products. The new company is called Re-Bound and has been formed by some of the country’s leading experts in recycled rubber garden products. Bob Jones, who has been at the forefront of creating recycled garden products for the past decade, is launching the new Re-Bound brand with recycling expert Peter O’Kane. The product... [more]
PAS 108 tyre bales answer the challenge of environmentally friendly tyre recycling
Landfill of scrap tyres was prohibited in 2003 and landfill of shredded rubber was prohibited in 2006. Since that time the recycling industry has struggled to come up with an environmentally friendly solution to tyre recycling. Until the advent of the BSI standard bale, some scrap tyres would be stripped of their rubber which would be turned into chips for horse gallops, children’s play areas and weed suppressant products. Others were shipped ove... [more]
Public and private sectors work together to improve the North East's waste management processes
Tough central Government targets designed to redirect waste away from landfill sites, and the strong economic prospects associated with reusing waste for low carbon energy generation has united the North East’s public and private sectors to establish the North East Sustainable Resources Board (NESRB) – the first committee of its type outside London. Senior industrial leaders and policymakers in the North East have come together to establish a... [more]
Merton Council makes it easier for people who live in flats to recycle
Merton Council is now enabling residents in blocks of 10 or more flats with communal recycling bins to mix all recyclable materials together. Residents will now be able to place all their recyclable waste into the same bin, which will be collected once a week and transported to a large recycling facility in Dartford to be sorted into their material types and then recycled into new products. The move to one bin for all recyclable materials fo... [more]
Other Recyclable materials news and reviews
IBM Researchers Develop Highly Recyclable, Biodegradable Plastic (Fast Company Magazine)
A mind-boggling 13 billion plastic bottles are tossed in the trash or recycled each year. And while most plastics are recyclable, the resulting materials are limited to "second generation reuse" only--so anything made out of recycled plastics has to be thrown on the landfill pile at the end of it's life. But now researchers from IBM and Stanford say they have solved the problem by developing ...
IBM and Stanford to research greener plastics (vnunet.com)
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 11 March 2010 at 02:56:00 Initiative aims for recyclable and biodegradable materials IBM is partnering with Stanford University in a research effort to develop eco-friendly plastics. The pair have detailed a new recycling process that could allow manufacturers to better process and reuse plastic computer parts created from plants. The research ...
PA proposes to peek at people's garbage (Mountain View Voice)
Palo Altans who repeatedly throw recyclable items into their trash bins could soon find themselves slapped with fines and without a garbage-collection service. by Gennady Sheyner
Statistic for Lehi recycling (Provo Daily Herald)
Lehi’s curbside recycling statistics for 2004-2009 years are total recyclable materials, 9,510 tons. Recycling this quantity of packaging and raw materials helped updates, detailed maps and other he
Convention Center’s recycling rate among nation’s best (Las Vegas Sun)
More than half of the discarded materials from the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center were recycled in 2009, but the recycling rate of those facilities' building partners helped push the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's green record to among the best in the country among meeting facilities.
IBM and Stanford to research greener plastics (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
IBM is partnering with Stanford University in a research effort to develop eco-friendly plastics.
Fresh-Pak Introduces Eco-Sheet Lite Plastic Slip Sheets (PlasticsNet)
Fresh-Pak Corporation announces the introduction of Eco-SheetLite Plastic Slip Sheets, an economically and environmentally superior alternative to wood pallets and competitors' heavier slip sheets
Zero waste in Telluride? (Telluride Daily Planet)
In the summer of 2008, a waste consultant was hired to examine the state of trash in the region.
Research casts doubt over green credentials of "degradable" plastics (vnunet.com)
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Thursday 11 March 2010 at 13:16:00 Co-op vows to stop using oxo-degradable plastics as controversial research claims they have no environmental advantage over conventional plastics Some plastics presented as being "degradable" are no better for the environment than conventional plastics and could even result in negative impacts on soil and wildlife, according to a ...
Environmentalist: It's becoming a plastic world (CNN)
Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.
