Sustainability & Recycling

How are Plastic Pet Bottles Recycled into Clothing? Since the UN General Assembly designated June 5 as World Environment Day, it has served as a platform to raise awareness of the issues that we and our environment are facing. Whether it…

Only 5% of Plastic Waste Generated by Us Last Year Was Recycled, Report Says Americans discarded 51m tons of plastic in 2021 – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere Only 5% of the mountains of…

Separation and Sorting Technology Innovations in Waste Handling and Recycling Operations If there is one part of the recycling process that is complicated and hard, it is the part of separating and sorting the recyclables. Effective…

Why is Recycling So Important? The Dirty Truth Behind Our Trash We need to change the way we think about waste. Recycling is much more than just reducing the amount of waste sent to the landfill, with a long list of benefits that aren’t…

More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution It’s a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being lied to. It’s true…

US PET Recycling Rate Posts Modest Increase in 2021 NAPCOR says 2021 marks the largest amount of postconsumer PET bottles and thermoformed containers ever collected. The U.S. recycling rate for postconsumer polyethylene terephthalate…

Food Waste Recycling in Scotland Up 40 Per Cent Food waste recycling in Scotland increased by 40 per cent between 2013 and 2017, saving thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, according to new reports published by Zero Waste Scotland.…

Food-Waste Recycling Faces Hiccups More states want to recycle their food waste instead of dumping it into landfills, but they have run into a snag: The infrastructure needed to turn huge quantities of table scraps into fertilizer or…

Food-Waste Recycling Programme: California's Newest Climate Change Target Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling…

How is Restaurant Food Waste Recycled? In the US, restaurants produce large quantities of food waste. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that in 2018 in the United States, more food reached landfills and combustion facilities…