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Baltimore Introduces New Wood Recycling Project A new wood recycling initiative in Baltimore is helping the city create a circular economy and new jobs through the repurposing and reselling of salvaged wood, reports the World Economic…

Recycled Plastic Bottles Leach More Chemicals Into Drinks, Review Finds More chemicals being released by reused plastic could indicate need for ‘super clean’ recycling process A widely used kind of recycled plastic bottle passes more…

Reduce. Reuse. And Then, When All Else Fails, Recycle. A municipal waste worker turns away another shipment of recycled materials littered with greasy pizza boxes and broken glass, sentencing this waste to slow death in a landfill without…

New Process Could Enable More Efficient Plastics Recycling Cobalt-based catalysts could be used to turn mixed plastic waste into fuel, new plastics, and other products. The accumulation of plastic waste in the oceans, soil, and even in…

Unrecyclable Plastic Can Now Be Recycled PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third highest by volume in the world. PVC makes up a vast amount of plastics we use on a daily basis.…

Everything You Need to Know About Paper Recycling In 2011, 66.8 percent of paper consumed in the United States was recycled. Every ton of paper recycled saves more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space, and if you measure by weight, more…

Turning Wood Into Recyclable, Biodegradable Plastic Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking hundreds of years to degrade in nature. A research team, led by YSE professor Yuan Yao and Liangbing Hu from the University of…

Canadian Wood Recycling Sector Positions Itself for Growth Alberta-based Wood waste recycling business group supports a holistic approach to development There's a lot more to wood recycling than shredding, screening and grinding. The…

Growing Demand, Short Supply Drive Recycling The U.S. glass bottle market is running into a supply shortage caused by high demand for alcohol, raw materials being reallocated to produce vaccine vials and supply-chain disruptions arising…

Poland to Introduce Deposit System for Recycling Bottles and Cans Next Year Poland will introduce a nationwide deposit system next year that will allow people to return used glass and plastic bottles and aluminium cans to shops without…