To recycling experts, the shift could prompt a reckoning for plastics recycling.
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Costs associated with recycling are up, revenue associated with recycling is down.
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Even when they are sent to recycling facilities, they are so thin that they can jam equipment, slowing the recycling process and making recycling more expensive.
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"Lower prices at the gas pump are not good for recycling," said Chris Doherty, a spokesperson for the National Waste and Recycling Association, which represents private recycling companies.
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There are thousands of confusing recycling instructions on bins throughout the country, which makes people skeptical and apathetic about recycling, and projects the message that recycling is unimportant.
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To address environmental concerns, Mobike says it is launching a bike components recycling program in partnership with several companies, including Dow, China Recycling Resources and Tianjin Xinneng Recycling Resources.
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Recycling them, at least given today's recycling capabilities, is effectively downcycling, and it's pretty expensive.
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It's easier than recycling for individuals, and much cheaper on a grand scale than recycling.
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Recycling can create jobs, and recycling done in the right way can be a profitable business.
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Apple employees conduct an audit at its partner recycling center in France, a traditional recycling facility.
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In the receiving countries, recycling operators had been known to illegally burn or bury the recycling items.
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Some cities are killing curbside recycling pickup; urban recycling centers all across the country are closing as well.
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But even if Amazon's mail-in recycling were wildly successful, recycling should be the last resort for electronics.
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Speaking of plastic, you're probably recycling it wrong, and experts say that's worse than not recycling at all.
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Thrown into the trash or even the recycling bin, they can cause fires at trash and recycling centers.
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Chaz MillerSilver Spring, Md. The writer is chairman of the Recycling Markets Committee of the Northeast Recycling Council.
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The U.S. does not have uniform recycling laws, which has led to contamination of shipments meant for recycling.
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This recycling shutout has caused hundreds of American municipalities to cut down or totally cancel their recycling programs.
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"The price drop has come at a time when a lot of cities have severe budget constraints anyway, so some communities are beginning to look more skeptically at recycling," says Jerry Powell, a 46-year veteran of the recycling industry and longtime editor of the recycling industry trade publication Resource Recycling.
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The publicly-owned recycling department Sirkula is launching the mall; and it will collaborate with the local recycling operations.
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The informal recycling industry is also unregulated leading to concerns over best practices and plastic contamination at recycling plants.
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They will be sent to a Recycle My Electronics-approved recycling facility for safe and secure dismantling and recycling.
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The requirement is designed to support recycling and ensure people have easy access to recycling, according to the release.
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We have seen tremendous growth in water recycling in our traditional recycling centers of the arid west and south.
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And gold detailing, which can make recycling impossible, was laminated with a thin layer of aluminum to allow recycling.
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Municipalities are cutting back on their recycling and what they will pick up, some places have stopped recycling altogether.
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At a plant on the outskirts of London a firm called Closed Loop Recycling sorts plastic bottles before recycling them.
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"The local recycling companies in Malaysia that are following the rules and doing proper recycling are suffering," says CC Cheah.
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Despite this, Patawari Borad of the Bureau of International Recycling in Brussels said recycling within Europe had not increased dramatically.
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" He adds, "The biggest danger of people not recycling properly is continued anti-recycling sentiment from private industry and government.
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For all our efforts to flatten, pile and stuff boxes into recycling bins, consumers aren't that good at recycling cardboard.
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Fixes Some of the biggest recycling operations are owned by landfill companies whose profits improve when recycling doesn't work well.
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But the recycling industry has never taken the logical steps needed to create a successful societywide recycling habit — and today it may not be in the economic interest of some of the big recycling companies to build it.
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And since China stopped importing plastic recycling last year, Canada's plastic problems (and recycling problems) have taken on a new urgency.
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Some of the new measures to encourage household recycling included dual chutes for waste and recycling in new public housing blocks.
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Keefe Harrison is CEO of The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit transforming recycling in cities and towns across the United States.
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Now, counterintuitively, the big winners in the recycling turmoil are the large recycling companies, which also operate landfills and haul trash.
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China will aim to scale up the tire recycling business, improve recycling technologies like thermal cracking, and increase tire retreading rates.
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All of this recycling is arduous, dangerous (e-waste recycling centers often go up in flames), and not really that lucrative.
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Another study found that framing a recycling effort as an obligation to adhere to authority and be part of a group—by showing a state's increase in recycling participation over the year—actually increased recycling efforts in conservative households.
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At the top-end plan, the company also introduces cardboard box recycling, so customers don't have to deal with the recycling themselves.
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In practice, they often try to stuff them in their plastic recycling bin, which gunks up the machinery at the recycling plant.
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"For some plastic manufacturers who have invested in recycling and closed-loop recycling, this is going to be a boon," Murray said.
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Hong Kong's density and exorbitant land prices have hampered recycling efforts, with operators reluctant to earmark sites for recycling facilities, environmentalists said.
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The initiative aims to encourage recycling in the city of more than 22018 million people, where recycling practices are scant or indifferent.
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Gary Liss, a recycling consultant in Northern California who sits on the board of several nonprofit recycling groups, including Zero Waste USA, said he knew of one model for recycling diapers, still in the trial stage in Santa Clarita, Calif.
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You might easily turn one over, see the recycling symbol, and toss it into your paper recycling bin without a second thought. Boom.
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Due to the presence of these hazardous substances in e-waste, recycling electronics is more heavily regulated than the recycling of other plastics.
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In advance of Earth Day, Apple on Thursday announced several new recycling initiatives and debuted Daisy, a recycling robot adept at disassembling iPhones.
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Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, is imagining a future for recycling that works for the environment and communities across the country.
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These companies know that improving recycling is to their economic advantage and that participating in recycling helps them reach their corporate sustainability goals.
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Apple has often touted "Liam," its recycling robot, but Liam only comes into play when phones are turned into official Apple recycling channels.
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But the airport is keeping its recycling bins in place to preserve "the culture" of recycling among passengers and employees, a spokesman said.
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It announces iPhone recycling programs and pulls out is iPhone-recycling robots Liam and Daisy, which are proprietary to Apple and are not capable of handling the recycling volume associated with the hundreds of millions of iPhones that are sold each year.
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Recycle it responsiblyMore manufacturers offer recycling programs than you might realize, and that's before you get to recycling schemes in your own local area.
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The program is managed by the Electronics Products Recycling Association (ERPA) according to the highest environmental standards at every stage of the recycling process.
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Up to now, many firms have imported waste they said would be used for recycling, but no recycling has ever taken place, he said.
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Ignore the "recycling arrow" icon seen on many plastic items – it doesn't necessarily mean the item itself can go right in the recycling bin.
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Customers can then send it back to Sonos (it will pay for shipping) for recycling or drop it off at any electronics recycling center.
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He comes from the Steel Recycling Institute — an arm of the American Iron and Steel Institute — where he worked as the director of recycling.
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It's tempting to view El Anatsui's constructions as a form of highbrow recycling, especially as he sources the bottle caps from alcohol recycling centers.
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Most companies used the money earned from recycling servers, computers, cameras, and video game consoles to offset the recycling of CRT monitors and televisions, which were never very profitable but have always made up a large percentage of the total weight of electronics recycling.
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Sims Municipal Recycling, which takes in much of New York City's recovered cardboard at one of the largest recycling facilities in North America, tells The Verge that corrugated cardboard — the kind boxes are made of — is almost half of the curbside recycling stream today.
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The mall is owned by the local municipality's recycling department and collaborates with the recycling center next door, saving new items from landfill every week.
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In 2018, China banned most plastics headed for its recycling processors, shutting down the U.S.'s largest recycling export market and compounding our waste problem.
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Congress must take action by passing the Secure E-waste Export and Recycling Act (HR 917), which would require the domestic recycling of e-waste.
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In Quad Cities, Iowa, an upgrade to the recycling facility and recycling trucks has increased revenue for the municipality and maintains dozens of local jobs.
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But you have to look at the flaws in the system of American recycling to understand why China's policy change impacted U.S. recycling so heavily.
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Unlike Ansteel, many Chinese mills don't have slag recycling plants, which global firm Harsco Metals & Minerals says is boosting its business processing and recycling slag.
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Startup: AMP RoboticsVC: Shaun Maguire, Sequoia CapitalRelationship: Investor Total funding raised: $22.58 millionWhat it does: Builds robots for the recycling industry that sorts through recycling.
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The Times's Anne Barnard writes: Many of you, dismayed by New York's recycling problems, asked how you could help the city raise its recycling rates.
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"This kind of recycling is really invisible, we only know there is recycling here due to modern science and our fantastic conservation department," Herbert said.
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"The legislation's stated aim of 'shifting responsibility for waste management and recycling to manufacturers and producers' would be extremely harmful to the entire recycling industry's business model as would the national beverage container refund program," Darrell K. Smith, the head of the National Waste and Recycling Association, a trade organization representing private recycling companies, wrote in a letter to the bill's cosponsors last week.
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"We really do need to prioritize reduce and reuse over recycling," said Anne Krieghoff, solid waste and recycling program coordinator at the University of California Irvine.
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To learn more about its recycling practices, I have spent the last year collecting Apple's state recycling reports using Freedom of Information laws around the country.
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China has banned imports of some low-grade plastic waste for recycling from this year, upending markets in Europe in North America which lack recycling capacity.
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U.S. trash companies are increasingly having to send what would have been waste-paper recycling to landfills after China cracked down on Americans' sloppy recycling habits.
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Reducing litter is everyone's responsibility, which is why our members have installed 30,000 recycling drop-off points nationwide and are continuing to grow plastic film recycling.
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The authors of the paper say that institutional changes — like designing batteries with recycling in mind and using robots to automate disassembly — could reshape battery recycling.
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I didn't even know what recycling was until I was in college — and, quite frankly, when I finally learned about recycling, I didn't even really care.
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The Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA) is an industry-led not-for-profit that oversees a network of end-of-life electronics recycling facilities across Canada.
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Apple announced today a further investment in its recycling programs and related e-waste efforts, which includes an expansion of its recycling program for consumers and the announcement of a new, 20193,000-square-foot Material Recovery Lab based in Austin, Texas, focused on discovering future recycling processes.
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When I wrote about how American recycling is changing following China's new policy back in April, I highlighted Montgomery County, Maryland's recycling center, which continued to generate revenues from all the materials it was collecting for recycling (except mixed-color, broken glass, which has little value).
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The effort follows one in the initial stages by the private sector that is also looking at reinventing recycling by creating a national set of recycling standards.
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"The recycling rate for soda and water bottles is only 53 percent today, so let's increase the rate of how we're recycling the right items," he says.
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MH: The primary solution to fix recycling and to help manufacturers reuse materials versus using finite resources is to have standardized labels on recycling bins throughout society.
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"We are in a crisis moment in the recycling movement right now," said Fiona Ma, the treasurer of California, where recycling costs have increased in some cities.
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Deluxe recycling: We all want to be able to do our part to make the planet cleaner and healthier, but some types of recycling are not accessible.
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The bulk of the money, about $4.15 million, is going to the Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit group that uses corporate funding to help develop recycling infrastructure.
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Although recycling has become more popular and accessible in recent years, only 103 percent of global plastic packaging is collected for recycling, according to the World's Economic Forum.
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Many of us throw Amazon boxes in the recycling without a second thought – but is the packing tape creating a problem when it gets to a recycling plant?
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An Oregon man who accidentally threw $23,000 into a recycling bin was reunited with his money after the cash was spotted at a recycling facility in Northern California.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Paris plans to build hundreds of public waste recycling stations to boost the low level of recycling in the French capital, city authorities said on Monday.
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The department is also launching a prize for lithium battery recycling, with awards of $5.5 million, to speed the process of taking recycling designs from concept to demonstration.
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Zirkle, who had a taste for working with numbers, found work recycling refrigerators, and after meeting Lorch, the two launched a recycling business called Total Reclaim in 28.
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Recycling produces far fewer greenhouse gases, but recycling firms do not get much benefit out of that because their rivals pay little or nothing for the emissions they produce.
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Click through to check out some of our favorite beauty recycling programs, then comment below with the brands that have recycling programs that you love and we didn't include.
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Because China won't buy up American scrap for top dollar anymore, recycling has become more expensive, and municipalities in the U.S. have started to abandon their recycling programs altogether.
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Joel Schoening with the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, which runs the bottle deposit system, suggested that the program's record success is unexpected due to "change" in global recycling markets.
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And the more contaminated recyclables that enter recycling plants, the more likely a recycling operator will send the entire haul, including items that could be recycled, to a landfill.
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Depending on the material being recycled and the recycling methods used where you live, you may not need to do much before tossing the container into the recycling bin.
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To the Editor: Re "As Costs Surge, Cities' Recycling Becomes Refuse" (front page, March 17): Your recycling story offers a parade of horribles and cites "hundreds" of failing programs.
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As lithium-ion batteries power more and more of our electronics, they are ending up in our recycling bins, and recycling plants are battling hundreds of battery-caused blazes.
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Actions like these will work to dispel recycling myths, discourage "wishcycling" and arm each of us with valuable information that will contribute to a growing U.S. recycling success story.
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But that's not to say you can never recycle a pizza box, said Marjorie Griek, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition, which promotes recycling in the United States.
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VICE News visited the tin recycling factory to understand why the Taiwanese people are so good at recycling — and why their success has been overlooked by the international community.
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"It's very difficult with older recycling facility assets to meet the new industry standards China and other buyers are demanding," says Brent Bell, vice president of recycling at Waste Management.
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Meanwhile, they're headed to the London Design Festival, to launch The Trashpresso, the world's first mobile, off-grid mini recycling plant, conceived to bring industrial grade recycling to isolated communities.
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"There is a need for increased innovation within the recycling industry to ensure harmful substances are eliminated from recycled waste and to increase the recycling of black plastic consumer products."
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The results were astonishing: Not only did the shaped lids increase correct recycling by 34%, but the amount of contaminants, such as food, in the recycling stream collapsed by 95%.
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While single-stream recycling is much more convenient, there's evidence that when people put all their recycling into just one bin, they're more likely to throw trash in there too.
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These dollars could help communities provide universal recycling access to their households through the procurement of recycling carts, trucks, and other equipment (all of which is also made in America).
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In one effort to increase recycling, residents of Surabaya, the country's second-largest city, can pay their bus fare by recycling 10 plastic cups or up to five plastic bottles.
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The biggest step would be to change the economics and processes of recycling, improving the collection of plastics by creating incentives to do so and then more efficiently recycling them.
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Using Japan as his test case — because the country makes available all of its municipal cost data for recycling — Kinnaman evaluated the cost of recycling each material, the energy and emissions involved in recycling, and various benefits (including simply feeling good about doing something believed to have an environmental or social benefit).
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It would strictly control the number of new enterprises involved in battery recycling and make full use of existing recycling bases in China in order to promote sustainable development in sector.
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That has compounded a problem that waste managers call wishful or aspirational recycling: people setting aside items for recycling because they believe or hope they are recyclable, even when they aren't.
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Micah Grant, spokesman for the industry-backed Californians for Recycling and the Environment, said his group wants a more comprehensive solution to plastic packaging, one that expands the state's recycling infrastructure.
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I said that sounded good, and I wondered why Sims Municipal Recycling, the city's recycling contractor for plastic, metal, and glass, says that it can find no market for plastic bags.
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"There are very few working, economically viable technologies for recycling the majority of materials in lithium-ion batteries," Kalle Saarimaa, vice president at Fortum Recycling and Waste, said in a statement.
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Cities have different rules for what can be recycled, and throwing something that is generally not recyclable — like a paper coffee cup — into a recycling bin causes trouble for recycling facilities.
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Emily Cohen, Director of Communications at RoadRunner Recycling, a share-asset waste and recycling solution for commercial businesses, says it is crucial to increase that 16 percent number of unwanted textiles.
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The recycling process included dismantling and sorting the gadgets ...
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" Over the last four years, the Recycling Partnership says it has reached 47 million households in 961 communities to "increase access to recycling, increase capture of and quality of recyclables, decreasing contamination.
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Although the lead acid battery sector is a recycling success story with European and North American recycling rates close to 100%, it's a metal that carries a heavy historical burden of toxicity.
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Falling commodity prices have made it difficult to subsidize CRT recycling, and companies like Closed Loop keep prices artificially low by speculating that one day new technologies could make CRT recycling profitable.
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Around 70 more are upgrading in order to meet standards set by the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, an unratified treaty on ship recycling.
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"All recyclable plastics from municipal recycling programs have been pretty much banned," says Anne Germain, vice president of technical and regulatory affairs for the US trade group National Waste and Recycling Association.
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Plus, Coca-Cola last year launched a World Without Waste initiative that encompasses its recycling goals, which include collecting and recycling the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells by 2030.
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The recycling message echoes that of Plastico, a plastic tableware company in the U.K. John Reeve's, the head of Plastico's European sales, argues the key is coming up with realistic recycling programs.
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Today, there are 30 major corporations — The Recycling Partnership's corporate funders — that collectively have leveraged more than $27 million to improve recycling in more than 500 cities and towns across the nation.
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After removing the best materials for recycling, most companies send their remaining waste to Bangun, a village known for its trash pickers who hunt for items of value and material worth recycling.
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The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires stores located in places without a recycling center to redeem these beverage containers in store or pay a $100 per day fee.
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He has led tours for fourth graders of recycling plants in the Bay Area; at Joshua Tree, his water bottle was a tiny blue toy recycling bin, a gift from his mother.
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Many domestic recycling firms have moved their plants to Southeast Asia in order to circumvent the restrictions, and the bans have also forced Europe and the United States to rethink their recycling strategies.
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Trump Jr. Accused of Recycling Lines for RNC SpeechDonald Trump Jr. has been accused of recycling a column by conservative writer Frank Buckley for his convention speech, after Twitter users noticed the similarities.
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This is because we are terrible at recycling smartphones—of the 50-or-so elements that are in a Galaxy Note 7, we can only recover about a dozen of them through recycling.
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The recycling companies say they cannot depend on selling used plastic and paper at prices that cover their processing costs, so they are asking municipalities to pay significantly more for their recycling services.
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Plastic recycling is technically difficult, and China's closing of its doors to foreign plastic waste in 2018 laid bare the inadequacy of global recycling systems, leaving many wealthy nations with mountains of waste.
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In a lot of communities and societies, we've gotten into a habit of being rather wasteful, but if you think about recycling, it's not that long ago that nobody ever thought about recycling.
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"We could basically have a coastal recycling industry," Moser said.
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"We're going to power a recycling facility," he told me.
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So far, recycling efforts haven't made a big enough dent.
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It's a way of recycling, albeit a somewhat distasteful one.
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Recycling requires separating it out, and that is is difficult.
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Some cities offer curbside recycling, Amazon writes on its website.
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Recycling is an important part of the Small Transparent Speaker.
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What do you think of Mariah recycling Valentine's Day plan?
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Someone was looking into wrongdoing tied to the recycling program.
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In many areas, though, recycling Starbucks cup just isn't possible.
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In June, Europe opened its first solar panel recycling plant.
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There are a few good options for recycling your tree.
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Many turn to repurposing and recycling the materials at hand.
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Recycling lithium batteries can be prohibitively expensive for many companies.
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Just about every building has been plastered with recycling instructions.
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Like most other forms of manufacturing, recycling is cheaper there.
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"In fact, we have uncovered 'child recycling rings'," Nielsen continued.
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Our problems cannot all be solved by recycling and innovating.
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Recycling is essential, but humans are extremely bad at it.
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Of course, this isn't Meghan's first time recycling a look.
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"Sounds like overkill," says Scott Townsend, director of recycling solutions.
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Less than 30 percent of this is collected for recycling.
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Recycling names is nothing new for any car manufacturer, though.
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We buy it from a recycling company that cleans it.
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But doesn't Apple put a lot of focus on recycling?
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It's a delightfully flamboyant recycling of European old master portraiture.
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In Chinese culture, reusing and recycling is in our genes.
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These are old, old tropes, and we keep recycling them.
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Use the recycling bins so the building doesn't get fined.
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A spokesman declined to comment further on recycling the devices.
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SANITATION • New York City: No pickups, street cleaning or recycling.
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But recycling is an essential part of the aluminum story.
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That's how a recycling app startup, called ReciclApp, was born.
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Some cities have been forced to end their recycling programs.
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Like many Central American countries, Guatemala has few recycling plants.
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So, the bad news: We're not all recycling robber barons.
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In doing so, these laws greatly increase recycling, Hoover says.
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Recycling was at the forefront of thinking all around me.
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The earth has been recycling organics for billions of years.
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The Missouri recycling program was not available to all applicants.
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They are meant as a financial incentive to encourage recycling.
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Elsewhere, people can simply toss them into any recycling bin.
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"Recycling is on the rise, specifically cardboard boxes," Slager said.
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Hilton is one of the many companies focused on recycling.
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Batteries and electronics need to go to special recycling sites.
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"Definitely more," said the owner of Mainstream Recycling, Vladimir Zabrodin.
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There's lots of talk about recycling lightly singed titanium implants.
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Only 4% of recycling facilities will take your plastic bags.
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No one in the recycling industry thinks that is realistic.
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We've since been able to integrate recycling into our lifestyle.
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Accenture's Lacy said the circular economy extends far beyond recycling.
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In Rokkasho, residents are still waiting for the recycling plant.
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A continuation of the recycling that had fed his art?
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This month, set aside some time for sorting and recycling.
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Our current method of recycling is likely not the answer.
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But because a large majority of beauty product packaging can't be processed in municipal recycling centers (pumps, pipettes, and some tubes don't qualify, for example), that often means bringing in third-party recycling organizations.
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Apple also uses Dynamic Recycling and Advanced Technology Recycling to collect products that other companies will then recycle, and uses a company called call2recycle to recycle the batteries it collects at its retail stores.
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And some domestic recycling facilities have stopped accepting certain types of plastics altogether: They can't make enough money by selling their recycled materials to justify the costs of actually recycling many types of plastics.
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Google "carton" and "recycling" and you will almost certainly be led to the website of the Carton Council, a trade group that represents Tetra Pak and other carton companies in all matters of recycling.
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For Days makes its clothing with a closed-loop manufacturing and recycling process enabled by a T-shirt membership programs that lets customers mail back worn shirts for recycling in exchange for new ones.
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Apple expands global recycling programs, announces new Material Recovery Lab in Austin Apple says it's building a new, 9,000-square-foot Material Recovery Lab based in Austin, Texas, focused on discovering future recycling processes.
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It identified the neighborhoods with the most contamination in its recycling bins and started sending their material to an incinerator in nearby Chester, Pa. The rest still send their material to a recycling facility.
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"There are some states and some markets where mixed paper is at a negative value," said Brent Bell, vice president of recycling at Waste Management, which handles 10 million tons of recycling per year.
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Things came to a head in 2014, when a US recycling company called Wealthy Max, whose recycling operation has an affiliate in China, was accused of passing off counterfeit coins to the US Mint.
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How recycling is supposed to work Shegerian says that sustainable electronics recycling is both labor intensive and usually requires expensive machinery that can prevent toxins from machines from polluting the environment or causing a fire.
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Even though import restrictions (especially in China) decreased the revenues that support American recycling and made it much harder to sell certain materials at all, the flaws in the U.S.'s recycling system run deeper.
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"Recycling has been dysfunctional for a long time," said Mitch Hedlund, executive director of Recycle Across America, a nonprofit organization that pushes for more standardized labels on recycling bins to help people better sort material.
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"The levels of environmental protection and recycling will really upgrade only if the entire supply chain follows through," said Zheng Yixing, the founder of the Helihuo Environmental Technology Company in Beijing, which promotes commercial recycling.
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As well as battery makers and recyclers, electric vehicle producers will also be required to participate in the scheme, and must provide online recycling services to customers as well as detailed information about recycling practices.
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The trade speech was held at a Monessen, Pennsylvania recycling plant.
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The waste was then sent to a recycling site in Stratford.
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Staples is another big-name retailer with a tech recycling scheme.
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Time magazine continued to fill recycling bins with anti-Trump material.
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More importantly: This is electronics recycling we can all get behind.
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However, it's unclear if that store was LSM Auto Parts & Recycling.
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But it has also exposed the shortcomings of the recycling industry.
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Its recycling industry brings in annual revenues of more than $2bn.
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Several of my fellow residents worked at a recycling sorting plant.
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The founder of a recycling company is trying to fix that.
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Or you can try Earth911 to find the nearest recycling center.
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Scrapping that subsidy would provide recycling firms with a big boost.
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There is little doubt that recycling is good for the environment.
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There were six other recycling firms among the 20 biggest exporters.
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One South African advice centre finances itself through a recycling business.
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But sometimes plastic is unavoidable, and that's where recycling comes in.
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Some of the trees may end up getting used for recycling.
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So many of these manufacturers and phone companies focus on recycling.
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As it turns out, sorting and recycling plastics properly costs more.
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That is, if the cardboard makes it into the recycling bin.
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Recycling aluminium saves 95% of energy compared with smelting new metal.
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Canterbury now works at a county recycling program in the state.
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Joaquin Phoenix isn't the only star recycling his awards season attire.
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Perhaps the best part of the program is the recycling component.
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Private landed properties have one recycling bin each, with weekly collections.
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Will the Kardashians resort to recycling their angel wings from Halloween?
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But like other cities in China, it lacks a recycling system.
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By recycling a very tired and incoherent argument popularized by Gov.
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It's the usual — people talk about bees, recycling, and climate goals.
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The fifth-grade Portman would sing about recycling and environmental issues.
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We're terrible at recycling rare and important metals from our devices.
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But recycling can, and should, become part of the solution too.
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Last year, the company unveiled an iPhone-recycling robot named Daisy.
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The type of recycling really depends on the type of material.
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"We are building recycling facilities everywhere in the world," Frerot said.
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When it comes to beauty and fashion, everything is about recycling.
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The EU has also driven a revolution in recycling and waste.
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It is a major provider of soil recycling services in Ontario.
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It's not only plastic recycling that is feeling the crunch, however.
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This is not mere recycling of pictures in the public sphere.
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We need more money invested into adapting and progressing recycling methods.
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Start simply, says Brent Bell, VP of Recycling for Waste Management.
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Stern said recycling did not make economic sense in many markets.
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Recycling wastewater is actually one way of using water more efficiently.
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Some companies have made progress through improvements in efficiency and recycling.
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Plastic recycling is an essential part of an effective circular economy.
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Opportunities to invest in recycling exist across rural and urban America.
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Recycling bins overflow with boxes from Amazon, eBay, Walmart and others.
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South Koreans come in second, recycling 59 percent of their refuse.
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Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia.
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And Patty Moore, president of Moore Recycling Associates, in Sonoma, Calif.
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Some available approaches, such as desalination and water recycling, show promise.
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There's no clean up besides removing the pack and recycling it.
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With apologies for recycling a well-worn phrase, winter is coming.
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From there, private carting companies would retrieve the garbage and recycling.
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Even garbage and recycling bins wouldn't be immune from tech innovation.
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The company also makes money by recycling the resulting scrap steel.
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Hyperallergic: We've been discussing how your work is not about recycling.
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They increasingly control every aspect of the waste and recycling system.
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Second, in Chile there are no municipal, curbside recycling programs. None.
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She works as a program officer for the Michigan Recycling Coalition.
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A new exhibition looks at how buildings can make recycling easier.
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In 1975, its recycling rate was about on par with America's.
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Back then, the city lacked any kind of official recycling program.
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Here are six items that can contaminate a batch of recycling.
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SCOTT Recycling is one thing American movies know how to do.
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Closing the recycling loop Stability is one of plastic's greatest attributes.
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Ask them about the neighborhood, about trash and recycling pickup, etc.
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"It's recycling," said Ms. Colon-Lugo, who calls herself a hippie.
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Another environmental problem confronting Metsä is the recycling of food cartons.
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AMP Robotics: Robots for the dirty, unwanted job at recycling centers
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Coke also plans to invest in spreading the word about recycling.
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I especially like the fun recycling program with the hashtag #gogreenportland.
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Dell is also making new commitments when it comes to recycling.
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"We'd love to get there," said Mr. Westerfield, the recycling director.
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Too many of these items will contaminate a batch of recycling.
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But less than 30 percent of this is collected for recycling.
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Poor people were the original recyclers before recycling was the norm.
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Second, we need to differentiate between mere collection and real recycling.
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It has an extensive recycling program and uses wastewater for irrigation.
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New York's bottle bill is a litter prevention and recycling success.
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"We need to start recycling everything that we use," he added.
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It was just 15 percent of curbside recycling 15 years ago.
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"They don't just pull trash bags and sort recycling," she said.
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Garbage and recycling bins put out for pickup sometimes float away.
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"People didn't know anything about recycling in the '90s," says Labine.
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The recycling isn't collected until people fish out the offending items.
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Recycling tired tropes and closing Europe's open borders help no one.
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Staggeringly, less than 30 percent of this is collected for recycling.
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The durable material is littering the planet given lackluster recycling rates.
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There was even a robot named Liam that assists with recycling.
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Look at the city's textile map for the nearest recycling location.
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She worked at a recycling factory and a cake-making plant.
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Lundgren is a e-waste recycling pioneer and career computer refurbisher.
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Hopefully towards the right to repair, towards recycling and e-waste.
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Companies can set up any sort of recycling system they want — they can continue to fund curbside pickup and pay a recycler to process the material, or they can switch to some sort of drop-off method and opt to do the recycling in house — the only stipulation being that they have some sort of a take-back and recycling program in place.
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I talked to folks at Recology, which handles most of the recycling for San Francisco, probably one of the most enlightened recycling programs in America (it diverts more than 80 percent of waste away from landfills).
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Otherwise they take up so much room in the recycling trucks that they have to make extra trips, requiring more energy and eating up all the net good recycling would have done in the first place.
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But as it cracks down on illegal, polluting backstreet recycling plants, it has struggled to create the incentives to encourage industrial-scale recycling enterprises to fill the gap, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said in August.
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MH: First, above all, cities, counties, states, businesses, schools, airports, sports stadiums and so forth should begin using the standardized labels on their recycling bins to make it possible for the public to begin recycling properly.
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Fires are not a new threat for the recycling industry, says Ryan Fogelman, vice president for strategic partnerships at Fire Rover, a company that makes fire prevention systems for industrial sites, including waste and recycling facilities.
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Recycling plastic has been a stop-start endeavor, plagued by limitations caused by the large variety of plastics we churn out, waste contamination, and the energy-intensive processes which can make recycling an economic moot point.
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Facts like these help explain how the American e-recycling business went from less than $220bn in 260 to more than $280bn in 20203, and why today's 22020% recycling rate for e-waste looks poised to rise.
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"We are investing $1 billion in recycling over the next five years," Chief Executive Aloke Lohia told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that investment would include greenfield and brownfield mergers and acquisitions focusing on bottle-to-bottle recycling.
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Whether asset recycling works depends on the details of any given deal.
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Kibbe wants us to think of textile disposal as recycling, not donation.
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We take out the recycling together and wind down for the night.
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How does she explain recycling identical photos to describe different doctor appointments?
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You can see a picture of its iPhone recycling robot, Daisy, above.
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But it's actually true, according to phone recycling company Hui Shou Bao.
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I take out the recycling and it's a wonderful 60 degrees outside!
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These have included increasing the number of recycling bins and awareness campaigns.
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In contrast, meteorites come from planetary bodies without such extreme recycling processes.
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Recycling plays a crucial role in minimizing waste and preserving natural resources.
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Separating them out is difficult and mechanical methods of recycling degrade fibres.
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In September, TerraCycle also launched a car seat recycling event with Walmart.
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To help raise its recycling numbers, the brand is partnering with DoSomething.
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They came up with 188 scenarios involving different materials and recycling methods.
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But recycling it to make more bottles generally reaps an energy saving.
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The company also offers instore cup recycling in 350 locations across Britain.
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LONG before the green movement existed, evolution discovered the virtues of recycling.
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If recycling is sufficiently profitable, more waste will become a valuable commodity.
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We used fake crystals that we ripped off a child's tiara. Recycling!
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The firms have pledged to reduce plastic waste and fix U.S. recycling.
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The situation is dire for many local economies as recycling costs skyrocket.
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Cheap and plentiful access has meant that recycling isn't necessarily economically viable.
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Both desalination and recycling capacity are set to triple within five years.
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The company has to pay a recycling company to dispose of batteries.
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This abandoned illegal recycling factory is still home to piles of plastic.
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So then, recycling becomes part of a gamification and part of entertainment.
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Hard disk drives have several promising attributes when it comes to recycling.
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Friedmann, a student of carbon capture and recycling options, thinks it can.
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Kuehr urged Christmas shoppers to take account of recycling when choosing gifts.
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The liveliest bit of Gaza's economy is the recycling of war rubble.
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You have engineers who start designing the technology and processes of recycling.
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BECAUSE SHE liked recycling, in 2003 Agnès Varda built herself a shack.
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SpaceX took over the pad in 93, recycling, reconstructing, and replacing infrastructure.
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They want to improve recycling infrastructure and ensure their packages are recyclable.
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Help protect #seaturtles and other animals by picking up trash and recycling!
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It was the first time that recycling rates exceeded landfills, it said.
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Recycling is a huge, colossal waste of time, energy, money, and resources.
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Sometimes, they'll ask us to pick up and handle their electronics recycling.
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And it introduced a half-cute, half-creepy recycling robot named Liam.
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Recycling malware is easy, developing new malware from scratch is extremely difficult.
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In the 1990s and 2000s, municipalities started shifting toward "single stream" recycling.
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The model for recycling our old smartphones is actually causing massive pollution.
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However, recycling the tax revenues wisely can restore much of this growth.
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They will also promote advanced technologies, products and recycling methods, it added.
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Recycling regulations vary from country to country but can be astoundingly complex.
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Samsung SDI may start its own recycling business, a company spokesman said.
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First place, The Beauty of Nature category: "Natural Recycling" by Ignacio Medem
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But electronics recycling is a national issue that merits a national approach.
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"Ramping up of the Nachterstedt recycling center is on plan," Braghi said.
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But in 2018, China banned the import of most plastic recycling waste.
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Buying other studios' abandoned scripts, and recycling the scraps into new franchises.
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Many customers, unaware, put their plastic film materials in curbside recycling bins.
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Mahdjoubi initially developed the water-recycling technique for NASA's Mars mission project.
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While recycling feels universal, only half of Americans can recycle at home.
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And, of course, make sure you're involved in your local recycling program.
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Avoid them: Don't buy plastic products with recycling codes 3 and 7.
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San Francisco has become a recycling model for some cities, including Paris.
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So recycling isn't ideal, but leaving it in your drawer is worse.
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Beyond the recycling of the materials, and giving work to local artisans.
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That would mark a move away from recycling the same old thing.
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The use of paper is still widespread and recycling is rarely prioritized.
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The pieces will be cleaned and shipped off for recycling or disposal.
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Mitch Hedlund: Recycling in the U.S. is in a pretty serious crisis.
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DB: What will be the effect if the recycling industry does collapse?
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Recycling has also emerged as a potential source for rare earth minerals.
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As yet, recycling is not a significant source of rare earth minerals.
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So… looking around they grab the only thing available—a recycling bin.
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Some lead acid battery companies provide formal recycling services in East Africa.
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For cities like Philadelphia, recycling had long been a point of pride.
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The box and insulation are both recyclable in your curbside recycling bin.
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E-waste recycling remains stubbornly low in most parts of the world.
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Most recycling done today simply involves melting the plastic and remolding it.
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Recycling textiles is a thrifty endeavor that is older than rag rugs.
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The giant also reported recycling 430 million pounds of plastic in 2018.
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About 40 people hold their recycling specifically for her to pick up.
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I quickly unpack it and take the box down to the recycling.
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What percentage of New Yorkers even know that recycling is the law?
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Let's just say Kojima is very big on recycling in this game.
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It would also let New York City's recycling processor raise its rates.
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Yet many white conservatives keep recycling the same selective stories about Thomas.
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It's been a mess since the recycling mode first came to light.
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Such wealth recycling has been central to Silicon Valley's growth for decades.
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Glass does not do well in curbside recycling programs because it breaks.
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Closed Loop invests in recycling programs, sustainable goods and landfill reduction efforts.
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When we get back, I put all my trash and recycling out.
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Minter writes about trash, recycling, and where our stuff goes for Bloomberg.
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The Partnership is using those funds to help improve recycling in Atlanta.
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How would Canadians feel if a newspaper in Pakistan began ridiculing recycling?
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This makes it hard for recycling facilities to sort them by type.
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He is feeding them food from a Nairobi-based organics recycling company.
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The steel trusses will end up in a recycling center in Albany.
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Despite being a specialist, she was asked to organize bags for recycling.
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Some thought it was junk mail and tossed it in the recycling.
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Some are willing to get involved with the dark business of recycling.
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"The industry was not prepared for it," said Surendra Patawari Borad, a businessman who runs a recycling company in Belgium and the United States and chairs the plastics committee at the Brussels-based Bureau of International Recycling (BIR).
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" Benjamin Sprecher, who is researching rare earth mineral recycling at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, told me "there is no recycling infrastructure in place to produce some of these metals on the scale that Apple requires.
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But she also learned that many of us are unintentionally contaminating the stream of recyclable goods by tossing the wrong items into the recycling bin and assuming they'll be taken care of — a phenomenon sometimes called aspirational recycling.
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Recycling initiatives will reward buyers for recycling their previous phones when they buy the Fairphone 3 in certain countries, and the company is also working to improve health, safety, and pay for the factory workers assembling the phones.
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So we don&apost necessarily try and be the experts in recycling, instead we worked with companies like BASF to identify recycling technology that enabled us to take shoes back and to shred and essentially re-pelletize them.
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Announces letter of intent to acquire Elemetal Recycling, Llc Assets * Dgse companies -total estimated cash proceeds to elemetal and recycling from sale and from payment by DGSE of about $3.8 million of obligations is $19.8 million * Elemetal currently holds an approximately 49 pct interest in DGSE * DGSE Companies Inc says in addition, DGSE would assume certain accounts payable of recycling Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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In his paper, Zhang cited one recycling company as saying that the value of materials extracted from one tonne of lithium-iron-phospate battery waste stood at 8,110 yuan, but the cost of recycling them would be 8,540 yuan.
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The expansion of the recycling program will quadruple the number of locations in the U.S. where consumers can send their iPhones to be disassembled by Daisy, the recycling robot Apple introduced last year — also just ahead of Earth Day.
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The company announced today another significant investment in its recycling efforts with the opening of a Material Recovery Lab in Austin, which will work with Apple engineers and academia on coming up with more solutions to recycling industry challenges.
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But recycling should be a last resort—repairing an electronic device is more environmentally friendly than the "down cycling" that takes place with the normal e-recycling process—iPhone plastics might become a park bench instead of another iPhone.
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After the show moved to HBO in 2016 (though it still airs on PBS) a recycling bin was placed next to his longtime home, and he began popping up through an underground tunnel leading to recycling and compost bins.
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Both Ms. Bann and Mr. Cobbold are on the board of directors of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association, which runs an accreditation program to promote aircraft disassembly and materials recycling procedures that are safe and responsible for the environment.
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Japan's neighbors, most notably China, have long objected to the stockpile of plutonium, which was extracted from the waste during tests of the recycling plant and at a government research facility, as well as by commercial recycling plants abroad.
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In this version of the story, Apple pocketed a cool $21.65 million for its efforts, and lots of this recycling was done by Liam, its just-revealed recycling robot which is capable of disassembling 240 million iPhones per year.
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Mushrooms were the perfect alternative, because they fit directly into nature's recycling system.
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I take out the trash and recycling, finish laundry, and pay some bills.
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Companywide, we are also pushing forward with further waste- and water-recycling initiatives.
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Tech companies can currently sell products without following meaningful repair and recycling standards.
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Apple isn't on that list, but it has its own massive recycling program.
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Both the video and the recycling campaign have received criticism on various fronts.
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Look at post-conceptual artist Mike Kelley's dumbfounding gold leaf homage to recycling.
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The move is part of a broader recycling commitment made by the company.
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What they don't discuss is why or how Death became a recycling mascot.
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But even in cities where it's not required by law, recycling is mainstream.
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His business, LSM Auto Parts & Recycling, reportedly crushed about 400 cars between Feb.
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Around half of all westbound trans-Pacific container traffic was rubbish for recycling.
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The uncertainty discourages long-term investments, keeping most recycling firms small and inefficient.
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Taiwan's example shows that these can be clean and need not discourage recycling.
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Learn more about Scale for Good and our Packaging and Recycling goals here.
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Putting a price on greenhouse-gas emissions would also help to promote recycling.
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In 83% of these scenarios recycling proved the greener of the available options.
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Gupta was confident that his focus on recycling would help restore Tata's health.
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"The waste crisis changed a lot of people's mindsets towards recycling," she said.
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Philadelphia is reportedly burning half of all the trash residents think they're recycling.
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The fact is, the most common plastics currently have the highest recycling rates.
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Working together, participants in the value chain can identify actual, viable recycling solutions.
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Citeo and Syndifrais are focusing on the upstream end of the recycling chain.
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In West Oakland, homeless people who rely on independent recycling centers are criminalized.
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Already, recycling has started to pile up in the US, reported USA Today.
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It will merely save me a few trips downstairs to the recycling bin.
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Perhaps it's time to combine the two ideas—and look at recycling concrete.
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It's forced many cities and some small communities to stop recycling all together.
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It has a bin for recycling and trash which is nice, because Chicago.
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"The conditions for recycling in the US have only gotten worse," Prindiville says.
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Plastic unsuitable for recycling is burnt, which releases toxic chemicals into the atmosphere.
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How much can we gain from recycling, and how is "urban mining" changing?
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That's a huge amount of material that is not entering the recycling chain.
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The idea of recycling e-waste or doing "urban mining" isn't new, right?
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But over in Bodmin, England, one boxer takes his recycling very, very seriously.
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The setup evoked a back-alley deal, but also a full recycling bin.
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The large bowel is an amazing recycling and repurposing centre for the body.
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Thrift stores were basically invented to trick people into recycling, and its worked.
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A 25% increase in recycling was recorded in communities exposed to the ads.
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A bin marked with a recycling symbol created a significant uptick in consumption.
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"We offer a recycling solution that costs them nothing," he told VICE Impact.
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Beijing is also recycling some of its trade surpluses via direct investments abroad.
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"We're going to power a recycling facility," he told me at the time.
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Then there's the argument that mineral recycling cleanses the nutrients of their animality.
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But the foam liner needs to be taken to a polyurethane recycling depot!
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According to the WEF, just 14% of plastic packaging gets collected for recycling.
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Short answer: Not in your standard recycling bin, but they can be recycled.
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To increase those numbers, PACE plans to research reward systems to incentivize recycling.
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Some countries such as Germany impose high deposits on bottles to encourage recycling.
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But the Hollywood mandate for recycling familiar intellectual property bows to no logic.
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There's a lot of new technology in renewables, recycling, and reuse-- sustainable farming.
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The Chinese recycling situation was mentioned; the word "emotionalism" was lobbed, and rebutted.
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The recycling companies mainly focus on extracting precious metals like gold and silver.
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"Recycling helps the Earth, people, plants, animals and other living things," Ryan said.
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Chris Bright owns 411Marine in Hardeeville, SC, an eco-friendly boat recycling company.
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He brought recycling to a redemption center, he explained. Recycler. Recycler. Recycler. Recycler.
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The pieces will then be cleaned and shipped off for recycling or disposal.
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"Garbage recycling relies on government, and waste-to-energy is subsidized," he added.
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What better way to make recycling fun than on a thumping dance floor?
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Recycling is nice, but some shop owners are trying to eliminate waste altogether.
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Unlike bottles or other trash, prevention messages and recycling methods prove more difficult.
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"Even increased recycling is not going to solve this problem," Ceder told me.
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The plastic bottles used to construct the walls had been rejected for recycling.
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We know that Teresa recycles, because she was clearly taking out the recycling.
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If she's such a fan of recycling, go out and recycle something else.
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Among their design concerns were methods for nurturing cilium and for recycling sweat.
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You kept buying our phones even when we were clearly recycling our ideas.
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I'm taking the money I have and recycling it by giving it away.
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The company also trains and supports local people who run the recycling outlets.
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Businesses and municipalities should insist that their recycling hauler begin using standardized labels.
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Adults seemed to be stuck, recycling the same partisan issues over and over.
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The factory will shun pesticides and herbicides and use minimal water by recycling.
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In Chile, it's still an uphill battle to develop a culture of recycling.
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There's a lot of recycling, a lot of just feature creep, I guess.
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He was dutifully bringing in his recycling bin Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles.
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PaintCare: Accepts unwanted paint for reuse, recycling or proper disposal in some states.
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The mall is curiously under-bathroomed, and trash and recycling bins aren't prominent.
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The troubles with recycling have amplified calls for limiting waste at its source.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on reforming recycling.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on reforming recycling.
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It looks like a money pouch with a recycling sign overlaid on it.
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The analysis found that they tend to focus on resource management and recycling.
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"There is a significant disruption occurring to U.S. recycling programs," Mr. Biderman said.
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Recycling companies can lose customers to competitors for years after a plant fire.
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Recycling and the environmental impact of metals extraction are other issues to watch.
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"I'm not against recycling plastic waste, I'm all for it," Mr. Wang said.
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They say they collected more than 11 million pieces for recycling in 2018.
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It also said it would partner to encourage packaging recovery and recycling rates.
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Spending time at the recycling was a memorable part of our social life.
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And that's despite recent pressure to move away from plastic and encourage recycling.
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Energy costs of recycling aluminium are typically about 5% of producing primary metal.
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The Recycle Act, and efforts like it, recognize that recycling is not broken.
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Sometimes, collecting can mean sifting through recycling bins or piles of discarded material.
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And that's if they even make it into the recycling bin at all.
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Technically, once recycling is left on the curb, it belongs to the city.
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Focusing more on product design and real recycling would be a big help.
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The writer is Northeast regional vice president of the National Waste & Recycling Association.
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Now you may be thinking, so should I not even bother recycling anymore?
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Recycling content is a surefire way to create a boring social media presence.
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Furthermore, the bags cause major problems for even the most sophisticated recycling facilities.
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Recycling the Christmas tree ("treecycling") is really a no-brainer for the environment.
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He said he sees "fantastic opportunities" in global recycling of complex raw materials.
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Once returned, the companies will be in charge of responsibly recycling the containers.
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A man gets ready to transport plastic bottles for recycling in Agartala, India.
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These include a composting and recycling program and the use of efficient lighting.
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Even recycling plastic is not as environmentally friendly as some people may think.
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There will also be a water recycling system that will recirculate the runoff.
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We teach our children to respect the earth by reducing, reusing and recycling.
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Through ultraviolet imaging, they retrieved the text that was obscured through this recycling.
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There's no shame in placing an empty jam jar in a recycling bin.
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The proposal would also create a national bottle recycling program, incentivized with a 10 cent refund paid for by industry; standardize recycling and composting labeling; and require a certain percentage of food and beverage containers to be made from recycled materials.
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BANGKOK, Aug 258 (Reuters) - Thai chemicals company Indorama Ventures has committed $22017 billion of investment in recycling as consumers become more aware of the environmental impact of single-use plastic and regulators push for more recycling, it said on Wednesday.
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While consumers rarely have to pay e-waste recycling companies to take their old electronics (costs are offset by local tax money or manufacturers fronting the bill as part of a legally mandated obligated recycling quota), companies, governments, and organizations do.
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Facility in an effort to expand recycling capabilities in North America * Constellium - fully operational furnace expected to increase total recycling output by 170 million pounds, about 5.2 billion additional used beverage cans/year Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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In the past, much of our recycling was being bought and processed by China; in recent years they've cut down on their purchasing, leading to increased domestic processing costs and often, items headed for recycling will end up in landfills instead.
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Semi-conductor giant Intel spent $150 million expanding a water recycling plant in Chandler, Arizona that treats millions of gallons of industrial water a day – recycling about 60 percent of Intel's manufacturing water to an underground aquifer in the process.
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Apple does have the capability to remotely unlock phones, but has thus far seemingly not engaged much with the recycling and repair world—numerous repair and recycling experts have expressed frustration with Apple's activation lock over the course of several years.
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They can contaminate an entire recycling load, making it impossible to process and resell.
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Meanwhile, TikTok encourages recycling sound bites which are used by sometimes thousands of videos.
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In this dismantling facility, refrigerators are dismantled to separate their various parts for recycling.
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Growing up, the New York-based actress used to get creative with household recycling.
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For more resources on recycling e-waste in your state, check out this database.
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Recycling isn't the answer, especially considering that 22% of plastics aren't recycled at all.
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Kids have to learn about recycling and sustainability somehow, why not from Death itself?
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ON THE FIRST day of 270, a huge shock hit the global recycling industry.
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Scott Smithline, who oversees recycling at California's Environmental Protection Agency, cites two possible reasons.
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Finally, Garnier also takes back empties of its Fructis products for recycling via TerraCycle.
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Even Epstein, however, was recycling a bit of a tired phrase at that point.
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Why levy deposits to encourage the recycling of glass bottles but not plastic ones?
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Packing paper is recyclable through most curbside recycling programs, Amazon writes on its website.
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Rare metals, including cobalt, copper, and gold, will be recovered during the recycling process.
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Save the water bottles for the recycling bin and the bizarre challenges for Survivor.
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Instead, Apple opened by talking about privacy, yak ranchers and the power of recycling.
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"Recycling is in a crisis," said David P. Steiner, chief executive of Waste Management.
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Until recently, recycling programs were an unlikely cash cow for many cities and counties.
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San Antonio made $305,000 from collecting and selling 87.6 tons of recycling last year.
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If the volume goes up, maybe it will be worth it to recycling companies.
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The company's larger sustainability efforts include its involvement in recycling company TerraCycle's Loop concept.
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LONG KNOWN for its bicycles, Amsterdam is taking recycling to a whole new level.
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"Something like forty percent of recyclable materials make it to recycling facilities," says Sprouse.
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Waste Management, the nation's largest recycling company sees this trend intensifying throughout the country.
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The College Board confirmed to Reuters that it plans to continue recycling test material.
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It would be more effective for rich countries to shore up their recycling industries.
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The head of the UK Recycling Association called it "a huge blow for us".
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"This definitely sends a signal that New York doesn't support manufacturing or recycling jobs."
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Battery companies have for the moment been bearing much of the cost of recycling.
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But bins marked for recycling have in practice served as yet more garbage cans.
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"That's gold to me!" says Choon Boon Ng, founder of the pilot recycling plant.
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On Earth, we have recycling processes like erosion that constantly change our surface geology.
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You try not to think about that other letter you found in the recycling.
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Participants propose plenty of green ideas, including better recycling procedures, or less meat-eating.
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Amazon should adopt more innovative ways of delivery collection and recycling — like returnable dunnage.
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Everyone knows recycling is a good thing to do, but not everyone does it.
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Still, sticking to those goals will likely be difficult, especially because recycling is struggling.
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There was even more shit all over the carpet and in the recycling bin.
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"We want to gradually form a perfect secondary recycling usage industrial chain," Li said.
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"We want to gradually form a perfect secondary recycling usage industrial chain," Li said.
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Police said they filed charges against three recycling and waste processing companies in Thailand.
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MPs say if cup recycling doesn't improve drastically by 2023, they'll be banned completely.
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Recycling is a A$5 billion industry in Australia, according to research firm IBISWorld.
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A newly-discovered bacterium that feeds on plastic could help develop new recycling methods.
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In addition to saving consumers money, the engineers' invention will also aid with recycling.
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Suddenly those recycling and trash bins you passed earlier seem very, very far away.
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There's been a lot of talk about recycling, but some of it seems futile.
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"The future of the West is in steel recycling, not primary production," Gupta said.
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Recycling plastic is difficult and expensive, which leaves less than 9 percent recycled worldwide.
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Focused on recycling ingredients, the idea is to ensure an eco-friendly drinking experience.
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CHINA dominates international trade in many goods, but few more than waste for recycling.
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Police said they filed charges against three recycling and waste processing companies in Thailand.
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It also makes me feel better about pretty much recycling 90% of my clothes.
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It will also institute recycling at all its restaurants by 2025, up from 10%.
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You can also find easy-to-follow instructions on recycling on the packaging itself.
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The process starts with plastic bottles sourced by US-based recycling company First Mile.
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It doesn't require the energy conventional recycling centers need, which helps reduce greenhouse gases.
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Here's how recycling experts say is the right way to clean up from Christmas.
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The most important thing when recycling boxes is simply to break them down flat.
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He has 50 customers and over 200,000 bottles and cans in his recycling credit.
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That's one of the reasons why American recycling was so vulnerable to market changes.
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The Swedish retailer is also launching a textile recycling scheme across the UK. bit.
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Recycling $$ An 86-year-old raises $400,000 and then gave it all away. Look!
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The Berkeley museum did not get LEED credit for recycling the old printing press.
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On a Sunday morning after a party it could look like a recycling center.
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The May 24 OECD report explores ways to boost recycling and barriers to adoption.
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Some will call it recycling, but I believe it's homage to his earlier work.
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And if there's one thing that drives today's Hollywood more than recycling, it's nostalgia.
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And they can also discourage excessive paper use and promote a culture of recycling.
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I opened the window to check whether the recycling had been picked up yet.
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Luckily, Mallos said there is a very simple solution: reducing plastic consumption and recycling.
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The dirty jar may be sorted by hand and removed from the recycling stream.
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The crisis stems from people throwing garbage in recycling bins, which contaminates the recyclables.
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MH: Economically speaking, the recycling industry is more than a $200 billion industry worldwide.
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Oh, there'd be recycling bins outside of every Cracker Barrel and Dick's Sporting Goods.
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Subsequently, all plastic wastes generated are collected by a recycling company twice a month.
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It's already forced some recycling programs in the United States to shut down entirely.
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Before selling or recycling any device, be sure to do a factory reset first.
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His father retired as a yard worker at a recycling plant in Los Angeles.
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Casper coordinates with a local charity or recycling center to dispose of your bed.
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We created a new boomer ethos, which was egalitarian (bluejeans everywhere!), socially conscious (recycling
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Reducing waste is the goal, and recycling is just one way to do it.
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It's both new and all about recycling; it's live and all about the past.
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At Louis Vuitton, a note averred that the plywood set was bound for recycling.
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But as Commissioner Kathryn Garcia accurately noted, like recycling, organics processing is not free.
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These children actively cared for the environment by recycling, reusing objects and saving water.
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For years, we relied heavily on recycling operations in China to take our waste.
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"The ban is a challenge for recycling programs in the United States," he said.
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But soon, Colgate hopes, you can throw your toothpaste tube in the recycling bin.
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"Recycling is just the tip of the iceberg — it's not going to be enough."
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Furthermore, a complex recycling and composting operation can be an engine for job growth.
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Donna Calin, a manager at a recycling plant in Chicago, uses Instagram for ideas.
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Better contract pricing That leads to more garbage and recycling to be picked up.
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After the vote, Dart closed the recycling drop-off location it supported in Baltimore.
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I haven't seen Mulaney's recent stand-up, so maybe he's recycling some things here.
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Forget to properly clean a peanut jar before putting it in the recycling bin?
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We will deliver successes in this area until 2023, especially in the recycling business.
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Dr. Geyer cautioned that recycling was not a cure-all for global plastic pollution.
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Of course, you don't have to wait a year to start recycling your shoes.
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And unlike Keurig, Nespresso has been running a free pod recycling program for years.
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How do you plan to raise awareness around the recycling and take-back process?
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This holiday season, the popularity of online shopping collides with upheaval in cardboard recycling.
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Starting at the hotel, staff members are trained on the collection and recycling process.
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The bins are then transported to one of Clean the World&aposs recycling facilities.
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It will also encourage the recycling of tires into rubber powder, the guidelines said.
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The notion of recycling these gadgets sounds virtuous: an infinite loop of technological utility.
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Now Playing Given Hollywood's penchant for recycling narratives, examples that fit your search abound.
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The look is the perfect nod to festival style without recycling last year's vibe.
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At lunch, the students take recycling to a level not seen in most schools.
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"It's still best to use reusable things, even before composting and recycling," he said.
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A proposal would make organic waste recycling available to all, then eventually require it.
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He describes himself as a Bitcoin-buying, non-recycling city-dweller who hates camping.
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Yep, even if you're putting your used paper cups in the recycling bin afterwards.
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First, most of Alberta's neighboring jurisdictions have comparable surcharge scheme in place for recycling.
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The island is a poster child for recycling, recovering 52% of rubbish collected from households and commerce, as well as 77% of industrial waste, rivalling rates achieved by South Korea, Germany and other top recycling nations (America recycles 26% and 44% respectively).
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There's Mimi, one of the many workers who finds herself drawn to Silicon Isle for work; Scott Brandle, an American operative who visits the island to try to arrange a contract on behalf of a green recycling company, TerraGreen Recycling Co. Ltd.
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A perspective published in Science last year identified problem areas in our current recycling methods: It is inefficient to have to sort plastic by type, chemical recycling requires too much energy, and only some types of plastic polymers can even be broken down.
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Leave it to Apple to make recycling sexy and to give its iPhone-shredder a name, but there you have it: The world's first recycling robot that's so cute you'll want to stick it on a leash and parade it around the park.
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"Closed Loop was not engaged in legitimate CRT recycling operations at the properties, but was instead engaged in the speculative accumulation and subsequent abandonment and disposal of the CRT waste at the properties without any feasible means of recycling it," the court ruled.
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Go deeper: Read the full Axios deep dive Big Oil doubles down on recycling The partisan recycling gap What scientists are doing to try to create plastic alternatives The troubling places plastics have been found Parents against plastic The art of ocean trash
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I rock and snuggle her a few minutes and put her down for her nap, while D. gathers the recycling and trash so he can take it into the local center for processing (country living means no garbage or recycling pick-up).
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"Whether it's simply the availability of a nearby recycling bin or the signage applied to the bins themselves, the research seems clear that consumption levels and recycling decisions are not set in stone and therefore subject to change based on the particular situation."
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The materials are theoretically recyclable, except for the fact that U.S. cities are facing a recycling crisis — often sending recycled products to the landfill and incinerator — now that China has greatly decreased the amount of recycling it will buy from the United States.
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That's why we badly need to develop better methods for recycling EV batteries and start scaling up the recycling infrastructure now, a team led by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK argue in a review paper published today in Nature.
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Recycling sites "don't have to market themselves," said Jessica Morrison, an environmental policy analyst for the Fraser Valley Regional District in British Columbia, who helped organize a tour in 2014 for a dozen officials to visit a recycling plant in Montgomery, Ala.
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Check the recycling code on the bottom of products and avoid plastics with recycling codes 3, 6 and 7, which may contain phthalates, styrene and bisphenols, unless they are labeled "biobased" or "greenware," indicating they're made from corn and do not contain bisphenols.
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The layout means a lot of moving among buildings in the freezing weather: to retrieve supplies scattered across multiple warehouses, to fetch vehicle parts, to stash garbage and recycling (McMurdo has an elaborate recycling program and recycles two-thirds of its waste).
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Plastic coffee pods, often labeled as recyclable, aren't accepted at any recycling facility in the U.S. Chinese recycling facilities for years were processing the bulk of U.S. plastic scrap, even if much of it was actually getting burned or sent to landfills.
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Part of that will involve leaning on Sumitomo, which has a history with battery recycling.
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The data center will also be partly powered by recycling waste products from nearby farms.
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In the book, I talk about recycling and just what they do on this planet.
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Recycling started off as a lesson to his son, Brent Jennings, about healthy money habits.
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"The first memory I have of my Dad is of us recycling," said Brent Jennings.
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Metals in the phones such as tungsten, cobalt, silver and gold are also worth recycling.
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A custom-designed R&D experiment, Liam dismantles iPhones and sorts the components for recycling.
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The city will help with recycling the debris and ensure everything is disposed of properly.
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According to Tse, roughly 2,000 private companies are engaged in recycling operations in the territory.
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The 16-year-old wasn't cool with the owner's chip recycling program, so she quit.
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These days, fundamental particle-hunting experiments can cost billions of dollars, so recycling is common.
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Coupled with recycling, stormwater recapture and other measures, it will extend our local water resilience.
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Recycling materials also ensures that waste doesn't go into landfills or incinerators, the EPA adds.
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But Chinese recycling facilities were unregulated, and plenty of plastic still ended up in landfills.
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But yeah, recycling modern technology is different and important because of how disposable they've become.
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After all, inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay area pride themselves on their recycling prowess.
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For one LA-based recycling company, it means a whole new way of doing business.
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It isn't the only business intrigued by recycling plastic in this way — far from it.
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Any Garnier product with the TerraCycle logo can be sent into the company for recycling.
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The Belgian materials tech and recycling company downgraded its revenue and earnings forecast for 2020.
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The stark differences in their circumstances say a lot about the global business of recycling.
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Ads for metal-recycling services are plastered on construction walls in the high-tech zone.
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This is just a water bottle and can be recycled in most curbside recycling programs.
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Though some parts are destined for recycling centers and scrap yards, others are being repurposed.
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It said there would be no trash or recycling pickups until that work is done.
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As Elon Musk recently tweeted, Tesla's gigafactory in Nevada will develop its own recycling capabilities.
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Last week, the European Commission outlined a new policy push to promote recycling of plastic.
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Another option is cranking up plastic recycling so that about half of plastics are reused.
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That means unusable plastic trash is piling up — and recycling has gotten way more expensive.
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Apple kicked off today's keynote by focusing on their dedication to reusing, reducing and recycling.
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In many countries the first priority for reducing industrial emissions will be to encourage recycling.
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In another part of the city, Vladimir Fajardo scrapes together money by recycling random objects.
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Sometimes, despite a recycling facility's best efforts, a plastics stream becomes contaminated, which impairs sellability.
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Where do we draw the line between art and trash, between good recycling and bad?
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How very little goes to support and services for those whose lives depend on recycling?
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This set back the entire recycling industry and is causing collected materials to pile up.
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And there are other serious challenges to sorting and recycling old clothing into new apparel.
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A carbon tax may spur recycling, which is less energy-intensive than producing virgin plastic.
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It plans to publish comprehensive new battery recycling rules before the end of the year.
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They have no investment [in recycling equipment], no labor, so it's all profit to them.
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If you're not responsibly recycling yourself, the data and the environment is at massive risk.
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Plastic, for example, can get caught in paper recycling filters and gum up the machines.
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Only six people have been charged with running illegal recycling operations, according to government figures.
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RoCycle is, naturally, short for "recycling robot," the latest offering out of MIT's CSAIL lab.
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But our eagerness to celebrate a tech company's recycling victory speaks to a disturbing truth.
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Image: WikimediaFor more widespread rare earth recycling to take off, we'll need stricter government regulations.
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We may also need to find a way to decouple recycling from the commodities market.
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A member of the lowest caste, Mimi, toils away recycling computer components for her masters.
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Few characters in soaps ever crash and burn -- there is a relentless reinvention and recycling.
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What happens after you recycle your laptop, either at the store or a recycling center?
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You have transporters who take the laptop to a recycling plant where it is disassembled.
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We have a feeling this may spark a recycling revolution and we're totally on board.
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They can get that deposit back by turning in the empty bottles at recycling centers.
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Captain Moore uses separation machines to improve recycling and spare plastic pickers from dangerous work.
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Others have set up their own water-recycling systems, said chamber Secretary-General K. Saraswathi.
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This bug was discovered in 2016 at a PET-bottle recycling plant in Sakai, Japan.
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Across the United States, local governments and recycling processors are scrambling to find new markets.
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Half of the city's recycling is now going to the Covanta plant, the spokesperson added.
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Some of its initiatives, like helping recycling, may overlap with those of Coke and Pepsi.
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More difficult is creating a mechanism for recycling the rare earth metals inside the iPhone.
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Artificial mountains of plastic reach into the sky at a recycling plant in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Southeast Asian nations now face a similar battle to shift perceptions of the recycling industry.
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Apple is getting in on the recycling action with a 29-armed robot named LIAM.
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The company is also encouraging customers to return products through its Apple Renew recycling program.
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"I have the skills to diversify my business by investing in waste recycling," she added.
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The community will supposedly have farming facilities, as well as recycling of water and energy.
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The company said hitting carbon-neutrality also depended on other measures such as increased recycling.
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However, there is another major advantage to recycling each shower's water: huge savings in power.
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