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Walmart Pleads Guilty in Hazardous Waste Case

May 29, 2013May 29, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Walmart agreed to pay about $82 million yesterday after pleading guilty to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous waste at its retail stores across the US. The company also pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act ... Read more »

Nestle Waters’ ‘ReBorn’ Bottle Made with 50% Recycled PET Plastic

May 28, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Nestlé Waters has created a new “ReBorn” 500ML water bottle that is made with 50% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET), and that requires 15% less energy to produce, and is using it for its Arrowhead brand of water. Most of the recycled material for the ReBorn bottle comes from CarbonLITE, a ... Read more »

Automation Improves Efficiency, Cuts Waste

May 28, 2013May 29, 2013 by Leon Walker

Process improvement and operational efficiency lead to waste reduction — which is the crux of sustainability, a SustainablePlant article says. Automation is key to improving performance speed, which is also a major driver in improving operational efficiency, writes author Jordan Berkley, director of product management at manufacturing software provider Apriso. ... Read more »

Call2Recycle Establishes Central US Battery Sorting Hub

May 28, 2013May 29, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Call2Recycle is increasing its sorting capacity for its battery recycling program thanks to an operational agreement it signed with Wistron GreenTech, a company that operates an electronic materials recycling facility in McKinney, Texas. The 209,000 square foot, state-of-the-art processing center is expected to facilitate the recycling of rechargeable batteries and ... Read more »

Portland Deli Locations Provide ‘GreenDrop’ Recycling, Composting Stations

May 27, 2013May 29, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Elephants Delicatessen in Portland, Oregon, is hoping to reduce waste sent to landfill by providing recycling and composting stations at its six Portland locations. The recycling and composting stations come from Pacific Cascade Corporation. Elephants Delicatessen believes that small efforts to reduce waste, reuse and recycle can make a significant ... Read more »

Hospital PVC Recycling Pilot Generates, Recycles 33,000 Pounds of Waste

May 24, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Hospitals in two Australian states have recycled 33,000 pounds of PVC waste, turning it into industrial hoses and non-slip floor mats. The hospitals are participating in a recycling program, PVC Recovery in Hospitals, sponsored by the Vinyl Council of Australia in collaboration with manufacturers, writes Waste & Recycling News. Although ... Read more »

Target Reclaims 1.2M Pounds of Vinyl Composition Tile Since 2011

May 24, 2013May 24, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Target has been named Flooring Recycler of the Year by Armstrong World Industries for recycling vinyl composition tile (VCT) materials during demolition projects. Target, which began implementing the recycling of VCT material in 2011 in conjunction with the Armstrong VCT Recycling Program, reclaimed more than 1.2 million pounds of VCT ... Read more »

Portland Struggles with Trash in Recycling Bins since Decrease in Garbage Pick-up

May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Portland, Ore., city officials are offering citizens upgrades to larger trash containers in order to help them adjust to the every-other-week garbage pick-up that was implemented a year-and-a-half ago. Since the city shifted from every week to every other week pick-up, it has struggled with the problem of people placing ... Read more »

Plastic Recyclers Address Full Wrap Shrink Label Contamination

May 15, 2013June 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers, whose members represent more than 90 percent of the processors of postconsumer plastic bottles in the US, Canada and Mexico, have formed a group to address the rapid growth of full wrap shrink sleeve labels in the marketplace. APR director Steve Alexander says full ... Read more »

E-Waste Recycling Program in Wisconsin Exceeds Targets

May 14, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Since Wisconsin launched a program for recycling electronic waste three years ago, the state has collected more than 100 million pounds of e-waste, exceeding targets by several million pounds, according to state officials. The program, called E-Cycle Wisconsin, makes it illegal to dispose of many consumer electronics — including TVs, ... Read more »

Coca-Cola Expands ‘Recycle & Win’ Program

May 14, 2013May 14, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Coca-Cola has invested over $250,000 in the Recycle & Win sustainability initiative which began in Charlotte, NC, in 2009. The program has been expanded into surrounding counties, with Harris Teeter, the city of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Concord, Kannapolis and Harrisburg joining Coke to offer consumers the reward of a $50 ... Read more »

NJ Senator Seeks to Shut down Rotten-Egg-Smelling Landfill

May 13, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

A landfill in Roxbury, New Jersey, has received hundreds of complaints from nearby residents of a stench like rotten eggs, and a bill has been filed by Sen. Anthony Bucco that would force the landfill to shut down. The Fenimore Landfill, owned by Strategic Environmental Partners, had been closed since ... Read more »

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