Recycling Tips
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.
McKinsey says most consumer packaging still going unrecycled
Global consulting firm sees multi-trillion-dollar opportunity in diverting the 80 percent of consumer packaging that goes unrecycled.
Lawndale Recycling receives air quality permit
The North Carolina facility will burn C&D wood to generate electricity to recycle postindustrial biomass and plastics.
New York auto salvage yard settles environmental investigation
LSM Auto Parts & Recycling agrees to pay $210,000 penalty tied to its handling of oil and other fluids.
Eco-friendly solution for battery waste: New study unveils novel metal extraction technique
As global energy demands continue to rise, the role of batteries is becoming increasingly critical
Victaulic invests to upgrade Pennsylvania foundry
Maker of steel pipes and fittings says $100 million project in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, will add 200-plus jobs and will involve new melt shop furnaces.
Recycling all household batteries is now the law
Many kinds of batteries had already been illegal to throw out for years and as of Monday, single-use and rechargeable batteries joined that list.How to increase the rate of plastics recycling
A national bottle deposit fee could make a dramatic difference in reducing plastic waste, MIT researchers report.Evanston Recycles offers electronics, documents and meds recycling on July 6
Electronics recycling and document destruction are open to residents of all Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County communities.Honda outlines new recycling plans for products and parts
Recycled material also was used for the van’s floor carpet mats.Call2Recycle Launched New Battery Recycling Program in Nova Scotia
Incidentally, Nova Scotia is the second Atlantic province to implement the battery recycling regulations.Steamboat Springs Drop-Off Event Collected 20,000 Pounds of Paint
In 2023, PaintCare had collected 8,117 gallons of leftover paint in Moffat and Routt counties.Recycling pickup could end in New Phila
Councilman and fellow committee member Steve Rippeth thinks it’s worth exploring but says that alone won’t solve the program’s financial challenges.Aaron Concrete recycling site acquired by Heidelberg
The Aransas Pass, Texas, concrete recycling site operated by Aaron Concrete Contractors LP is now part of Heidelberg Materials.Trash and recycling rates going up in the city of Chillicothe
Customers are encouraged to visit?ChillicotheOH.gov?to view additional information, sign?up for electronic bills, and to set up automatic payments.Michigan hits record 23% recycling rate
The total residential volumes recycled in 2023 stood at 703,369 tons, higher by 82,000 tons or about 13% from the previous year, according to the press releaseJefferson Parish Declared Changes to Recycling Drop-Off Sites
According to the official announcement, the working hours of the East Bank and West Bank recycling drop-off sites will be revised from 8AM to 12PM.