General
May 2nd 2012 - Do you get a small but palpable sense of satisfaction each time you deposit a piece of paper in that recycling bin by the copy machine, rather than the nearby trash can?
May 8th 2012 - Kraft Foods cut the amount of plastic packaging in its YES Pack salad dressing by 60 percent using a lifecycle analysis system, the company has announced.
April 30th 2012 - Bottled water was the talk of the Internet last week when Concord, MA decided to make PET water bottles public enemy No. 1. The town passed a bylaw that bans the sale of single-serving PET bottles of 1 liter (34 ounces) or less in Concord, and stores could be fined up to $50 for violating the ban.
May 8th 2012 - PepsiCo has replaced its white opaque jug with a new clear container for its multi-serve Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice. Holding 89 ounces of juice, the extrusion blow molded handleware bottle is easy to pour, easy to open with a new flip-top cap—and fully compatible with the current PET recycling infrastructure.
New Jersey
May 8th 2012 - New Jersey - Other facilities are more automated. At Strategic Materials in Swedesboro, magnets separate out some metal and optical scanners detect varying colors of glass and different types of plastic, which air jets blast to their respective chutes.
New York
May 4th 2012 - New York - In a sign that New York City is getting serious about improving its poor recycling record, the city’s Department of Sanitation is appointing a recycling industry innovator as its new “deputy commissioner for recycling and sustainability.”
Massachusetts
May 10th 2012 - Have a bunch of old cans and bottles taking up space in the garage? Those bottles can provide pop to the Andover High School Golden Warrior Marching Band.
May 10th 2012 - MA - Jean Hill, an 82-year-old activist working on the ban, used the Pacific Gyre to help illustrate the amount of pollution plastic bottles are contributing to. The great garbage patch floating in the ocean was impressively horrifying enough to sway some votes.
California
May 10th 2012 - California - The City of Thousand Oaks was recently awarded $202,938 by the state of California to provide recycling equipment and outreach to all Conejo Valley Unified School District campuses during the 2012-13 school year.
Oregon
May 8th 2012 - Portland, OR - Oregon is reclaiming jobs once offshored to China, with the opening of a a $10 million plastics recycling facility in St. Helens.
UK
May 10th 2012 - Most Americans have never seen the process of curbside sorting. Watch the process in the video demonstrating the process in the UK.
May 10th 2012 - UK - The £15m facility in north Lincolnshire will use advanced technology to integrate the processing of both plastic bottles and polymers
May 5th, 2012 - UK - Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) and ECO Plastics have announced the official opening of their groundbreaking joint venture, Continuum Recycling. Completed on time and on budget, the £15 million facility is a first for Great Britain, and brings the recycling process full-circle, with used plastic packaging sorted and reprocessed domestically, before returning to GB shelves as part of another bottle.
