Top tips for recycling your household rubbish, reducing your waste, and reusing whenever possible. There are little things each of us can do to help preserve and protect the environment. Being careful to recycle the right items in the correct way will ensure the recycling process is as efficient as possible.
West Virginia University researchers are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical for national defense.
As a former delivery driver for UPS and Amazon, Omar Hernandez is used to working out of an office on wheels, but he no longer delivers packages. His cargo now is bottles and cans. Hernandez…
O-I Glass, Inc. (“O-I”) (NYSE: OI) today released its 2022 Sustainability Report detailing its sustainable advancement in transforming process, products, and interconnected relationships with key stakeholders.
Fashion for Good and Circle Economy, a global impact organization supporting a circular economy, have determined that the value of low-end post-consumer textiles available for fiber-to-fiber recycling in six European countries stands at 74 million…
A friend of mine likes to say the only thing wrong with recycling rates is the numerator and the denominator. I was reminded of this when I read about a study suggesting the 91.4 percent…
The Bourbon Town Council heard Clerk-Treasurer Kim Berger say she has sent out trash and recycling proposals to six companies. Bids are to be received by October 7th and will be opened during the October…
Honeywell announced September 26 that Biotrend Energy based Istanbul, Turkey, will apply Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology in Biotrend Energy’s planned plastics recycling factory in Turkey.
Community recycling days over the summer at two of Cummins Inc.'s larger U.S. plants collectively emptied more than 2,000 vehicles of an estimated 140 tons of electronics, batteries, tires, used paint, old lightbulbs and more.
Researchers in Japan have developed a process for converting commonly used fluoropolymers into fluorite (calcium fluoride), a useful starting material for making nearly all fluoride compounds.
Watertown residents have a new option for recycling mattresses and box springs. The City is collaborating with a company that will, for a fee, pick up these items from the curbside once a month and…
Keep Blount Beautiful will host its annual America Recycles Day collection from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22 at First Baptist Church Maryville, 202 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway This event is a…