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SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. (May 16, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- Hey, Crayola: Some California elementary school students want you to listen to them.
May 16, 2012
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (May 15, 12:50 p.m. ET) -- Compounder Plastics Group of America will spend more than $1 million to restore a 105-year-old woolen mill complex in Woonsocket. The complex was built between 1907 and 1925 and operated for many years as the Jules Desurmont Worsted Mill.
May 15, 2012
DENVER (May 15, 12:30 p.m. ET) -- Alpine Waste & Recycling is now taking mixed rigid plastics for processing at its Denver recycling plant. Commerce City, Colo.-based Alpine Waste said it is the first company in the Denver area to actively seek mixed rigid plastics, such as lawn furniture, five-gallon buckets and pallets.
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 11, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Four more communities, three of them in California, have banned single-use plastic carryout bags, bringing the number of communities with plastics-related bans in the United States to 74 -- almost two-thirds of them in California.
May 11, 2012
LOS ANGELES (May 11, 2 p.m. ET) -- A task force in Los Angeles County has shut down 24 illegal plastic grinding operations over eight months and received recognition for its efforts. But the five-person investigative team in the sheriff’s department said it needs more corporate or government financial support to maintain its momentum.
May 11, 2012
HEMSWELL, ENGLAND (May 11, 1:45 p.m. ET) -- Environment minister Lord Taylor officially opened the 15 million pound ($24.1 million) Continuum Recycling Ltd. plant in Hemswell on May 10, declaring the joint venture between Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd. and Eco Plastics as “an innovative partnership.”
May 11, 2012
EUCLID, OHIO (May 10, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- Plastics scrap recycler InterGroup International Ltd. is riding a wave of growth that began late last year and is continuing on into 2012.
May 10, 2012
ATLANTA (May 9, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. intends to use less secondary packaging and produce more of its bottles from plant-based materials, according to the company’s seventh Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) report.
May 9, 2012
NEW YORK (May 9, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- New York City is set to hire Ron Gonen, the co-founder and former CEO of recycling rewards program RecycleBank LLC, to the newly created position of deputy commissioner for recycling and sustainability.
May 9, 2012
ORLANDO, FLA. (May 9, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- How good has 2012 been so far for Gamma Meccanica North America, the U.S.-based joint venture operation of Italian-based plastics extrusion recycling equipment manufacturer Gamma Meccanica SpA? “By the end of the second quarter, our sales will be double what we did last year,” said Heath Sellers, president and general manager.
May 9, 2012
ORLANDO, FLA. (May 9, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- Erema North America Inc. CEO Tim Hanrahan said he expects a sales increase of 25-30 percent in 2012, on the heels of a 40-50 percent sales increase in 2011.
May 9, 2012
ORLANDO, FLA. (May 4, 4:50 p.m. ET) -- Symphony Environmental Technologies plc used its first U.S. show to set the record straight. The maker of oxo-biodegradable resin additives is talking to companies and lawmakers worldwide to address misinformation about its d2w technology, said Chief Executive Michael Laurier in an interview at NPE2012.
May 4, 2012
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND (May 4, 1:50 p.m. ET) — When New Zealand artist Eve Armstrong assembled her sculpture “Taking Stock,” she had no concept she had actually developed an artwork that contained almost every plastic resin, except polystyrene. The sculpture features a wide range of “found objects,” predominantly white and transparent plastic items, seemingly randomly placed together.
May 4, 2012
BRUSSELS (May 3, 12 p.m. ET) -- Europe’s PVC industry says that despite what it calls “significant economic challenges” it will be able meet its target to recycle 800,000 metric tons of PVC by 2020.
May 3, 2012
SHANGHAI (April 27, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- Hong Kong has been a critical transfer point in the stream of plastics scrap flowing from the Western world to mainland China -- the largest importer and recycler of waste plastics. However, Hong Kong will soon start its first local recycling factory, as mainland’s labor cost advantage fades.
April 27, 2012
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