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India expands capacity to consume recovered paper

India’s Sri Andal Paper Mills plans to start a containerboard line by the second half of this year. … Read More…

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Growing battery processor plans next US facility

Lithium-ion battery recycling company Li-Cycle will build its third North American plant in the Phoenix area. The operation will be able to process up to 22 million pounds of batteries per year. The Toronto-headquartered company this month announced its next …

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Glass Packaging Institute releases 10-year goal

GPI’s A Circular Future for Glass initiative aims to raise the U.S. glass recycling rate to 50 percent. … Read More…

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Second Food Scraps-to-RNG Project Certified Under California LCFS GREET 3.0 | BioCycle

Before January 2021, no food scraps-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) pathways had been certified by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) under CA-GREET 3.0 —the life cycle analysis model that has been used by the agency since 2019 to certify Low …

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California provides funding to boost thermoform recycling

PET reclaimers have been awarded millions of dollars from the state of California to help finance recycling projects. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) on April 19 approved a $3 million grant to Green Impact Manufacturing and …

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Data Corner: The importance of decoupling recycled and virgin plastic prices

Historically, recycled plastic resin and bale prices have closely tracked virgin resin pricing. High virgin resin prices create good times for plastic reclaimers. Conversely the remarkably low virgin resin prices experienced across most plastic types in the last few years …

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Asking what should count as recycling, EPA gets an earful

If food scraps from households are composted, should that count in the nation’s recycling rate? What if they’re fed to livestock or processed in anaerobic digesters? Those are just a couple of the many questions the EPA is grappling with …

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ReFED Analysis Identifies Solutions to Reduce Food Waste

In 2019, across the U.S. 80 million tons of food went unsold or uneaten. Wasted food has both environmental and economic impacts. It accounts for approximately 4 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. …

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Battery Resourcers Takes Mixed-Stream Approach to Lithium-Ion Recycling

With the proliferation of lithium-ion-powered electronics and vehicles over the past decade, the race to address the environmental and regulatory challenges of spent batteries continues to accelerate. Current estimates show only 5% of lithium-ion ba … Read More…

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Li-Cycle to Build New Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Facility in Arizona

TORONTO–Li-Cycle Corp. (“Li-Cycle” or “the Company”), an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, today announced that the Company will build its third comme … Read More…