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Solar-powered rubbish bins
Louisville in the US has installed solar-powered waste and recycling street compactor bins. They can apparently hold five times the capacity of regular waste containers, enabling fewer collections. An...
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Firm finds TV recycling process
A Kent company finds a way of tackling the growing mountain of unrecyclable leaded glass from cathode ray television sets. Sweeep Kuusakoski heats the glass to over 1,000C, where the lead is...
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HP’s Closed Loop Cartridge Recycling Scheme
A great article about HP's closed loop for used HP cartridges. The technical details are: Customer returning the empty cartridges to HP using a Freepost bag or label. Not any cartridges are accepted,...
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Flame retardant recycled plastic by Sony
Sony has developed a flame-retardant recycled plastic material by optimally blending leftover plastic from manufacturing sites with a proprietary sulfur-based flame-retardant also developed by Sony....
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Researchers using recycled rubber to modify plastics
Researchers at Fraunhofer Umsicht in Oberhausen have developed a process which uses recycled scrap rubber as a modifier for plastics, at ratios of 60-80 percent. Products such as lawn mower wheels and...
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A remote sensing network of environmental variables
The Scatol8® is a remote sensing network of environmental, landscape and management variables, created at the Department of Commodity Science of the University of Turin, entirely based on free and open...
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Attempting a map of the future of waste
This post presents the groundwork for a coming analysis of the future of waste. It describes the methodology to be used, and then starts with a systems map for waste. From my own blog.See it on...
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Wind power and the waste from turbine blades
The blades that catch the wind and power wind turbines are massive, fibreglass and carbon-composite materials. Each blade can weigh 18 short tons (16 metric tonnes), and in 2030 it is expected that...
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Waste to Furniture at Rebuilding Exchange
Chicago company Rebuilding Exchange (RX) has taken 7,000 tons (6,300 tonnes) of timber waste over the past four eyars and converted it into beautiful pieces of furniture. The business is now looking to...
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Soft Landing mattress recycling
Every year about 1.25 million mattress are thrown away in Australia. That's over 15,000 tonnes of steel, almost 2,000 tonnes of polyurethane foam and significant landfill airspace. Soft Landing is a...
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Part of Nature cartoon by Stuart McMillen - Recombinant Records
Waste is a gross expression of a fundamental imbalance. We can write, analyse and justify all we want. Sometimes it's simpler to just come out with a simple cartoon. Rectifying this imbalance is what...
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Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges
The intersection of biomimicry and cradle to cradle makes a really interesting space. Part of this can be seen from the following quotation: For Benyus, the next frontier is 3D printing, a mechanized...
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Making groceries out of garbage
Barthold Recycling takes the oldest method of food recycling to a new level - feeding the food to pigs. Bathold feeds about 20,000 tonnes of food scraps each year to 5,000 pigs in Anoka County,...
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Waste plastics in asphalt mix at Vancouver
Plastic waste such as bags and water bottles that are difficult to recycle have found a new life in the asphalt mix used to pave streets in Vancouver, Canada An Ontario company, GreenMantra has...
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Composite plastics from waste
Interesting research from Brazil on converting waste plastic and bagasse into composite plastics. Has great potential to integrate in with poverty reduction work like that being done by Waste for Life....
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The R Certificate - tracking the journey of recycled clothing
The R Certificate guarantees that clothes are:Manufactured using a retailer’s, brand’s or designer’s own recycled factory fabric waste and/or recycled unused clothing waste. This type of fabric waste...
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Leading Edge Recycling Technologies
The Institute for Advanced Engineering in South Korea is doing significant work in materials recycling technologies. Key areas are:Total recycling of LCD devicesCopper and tin recovery from waste...
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Recycling plastic production scrap
friedola®TECH is a German company recycling plastic production scrap. The company's REPLAG® recycling system makes valuable raw materials out of scrap that can be reinjected into production of new...
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Feeding the Hungry Instead of Landfills
Darden Restaurants is apparently the world's large full-service restaurant company. In 2004, the Darden Harvest Program was launched to tackle the joint problems of food waste and food insecurity....
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'Self Learning' Sorting Machine for Battery Recycler
UK waste battery collection and recycling company, G & P Batteries is investing in an automated battery sorting system from Optisort that utilises a neural network to 'self learn'. Using advanced...
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