Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This quote came to mind as we at Ocean Conservancy launched our latest report, Recommendations for Recycled Content: Requirements for Plastic Goods and Packaging. After all, this was not the first time that Ocean Conservancy has looked at the issue of recycled content. Our goal was to support these requirements with rigorous analysis.

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Earth 911

JUNE 17, 2021

The post Tips for Recycling Computers, Phones and Other E-waste Successfully appeared first on Earth911. It happens to all of us, when the computer, smartphone, or another electronic device no.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

How can you limit your consumption of plastic products and help increase the percentage of plastics being recycled? billion metric tons of plastic waste generated between 1950 and 2015, a mere 10% was recycled, 14% burned, and 76% discarded to landfills, dumps, or into the environment. Putting plastic waste into perspective.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 12, 2023

The industry’s so-called ‘Recycle Everywhere’ program will cost retailers and consumers a lot of money for little more than greenwashing,” said Karen Wirsig, Senior Program Manager for Plastics at Environmental Defence. The blue bin recycling system only collects and recycles about 43 per cent of non-alcoholic beverage containers in Ontario.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

On January 31, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania collaborated on a School Recycling Study Survey that shows Pennsylvania K-12 students have increased their knowledge and awareness of recycling over the past fiscal year. Does your school have a recycling awareness program?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

In recognition of the “ From Bins to Bottles ” glass recycling program – which collected more than 1,000 tons of bottles, jars and jugs in 2023 – Pennsylvania Resources Council has received the Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. “At Last year, the project collected over 1,000 tons of glass to be recycled.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2024

The Pennsylvania Resources Council ’s Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program provides a free recycling service that rotates through a variety of locations in Pennsylvania. PRC launched its glass recycling campaign in 2019 with a series of pop-up events in response to the elimination of glass in numerous curbside programs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

Over the past year, I have written a lot about electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling, answering common questions , reviewing the European Union’s gold standard battery recycling policy , and establishing principles for strong EV recycling policy generally. Electric vehicles are the future.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

By PA Resources Council , Michael Brothers Hauling & Recycling , CAP Glass, Inc. Since January 2019, many changes have occurred in our local communities’ recycling services – not the least of which was the loss of glass recycling as a curbside residential recycling option.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The program partners with TerraCycle to recycle collected cigarette butts, turning waste into reusable materials. The filters are melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled industrial products, such as plastic pallets. The residual tobacco and paper are separated out and composted in a specialized process.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The PA Resources Council is expanding its Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program through a pilot program starting in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County October 21 to 26. Throughout the remainder of the year, PRC will schedule several source-separated glass recycling bin “pop ups” in the southeastern region.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The PA Resources Council announces three Traveling Glass Recycling Bin locations in Delaware and Montgomery counties in December. Glass is still one of the most recyclable materials we generate in our homes, and the market for glass recycling is very strong,” according to Glass Program Coordinator Ethan Woodfill.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On May 20, the PA Recycling Markets Center will host a Recycled Metals Commodities Markets Update with a focus on the implications of the recent tariff activity and logistics issues starting at 1:00 p.m. The featured presenter will be Amy Jane Hinton, the North American Recycled Metals Editor at Fastmarkets.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 10, 2024

Over the last twenty years, plastic waste recycling has considerably increased worldwide, as the chart shows. By 2019, recycling rates were 12–13%. The United … Continue reading Plastic recycling rates are increasing, but slowly, in many regions

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2024

On April 3, the PA Resources Council announced its Traveling Glass Recycling Program will set up a month-long collection engagement in Haverford Township, Delaware County from April 5 to May 3. We’re excited to expand recycling options for our many municipal partners by scheduling our first monthlong engagement.”

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 16, 2022

Just three years ago in 2019, when it was really wet in Northern California, we only diverted [from the Colorado River] in the neighborhood of 500,000 acre feet.”. More water conservation and use of recycled water in Southern California relieves pressure on the Colorado River and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Soon and his various colleagues have been writing and recycling this same paper for almost two decades (how ecologically friendly!). 2569, 2019. Willson, J. Lee, and D. Wu, "Modeling Quiet Solar Luminosity Variability from TSI Satellite Measurements and Proxy Models during 1980–2018", Remote Sensing , vol.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2021

By far the biggest part of the solution must come from industry producing less plastic, companies changing packaging and serving formats and governments improving recycling standards. With more than 11 million metric tons of plastic entering our ocean every year, we need a sea change in our relationship with single-use items.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Toss a bottle into a recycling bin in western Pennsylvania and send that bottle on a journey that can result in a new amber, green or clear bottle on a store shelf in 30 days or less. Thanks to the region’s robust glass manufacturing, processing and recycling industry, the entire process never even needs to cross state lines.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In 1992, after five years of research, China decided to cooperate with Russia on the construction of an experimental fast reactor (CEFR), with the ultimate goal of pursuing a closed nuclear fuel cycle —a process in which spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recycled to extract usable materials for further energy production.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

Amidst these weather disruptions — “Trinidad’s average temperature has risen two and half times above the global average from 1946 to 2019,” according to the New York Times — citizens are reckoning with the government’s decision to pursue oil and gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On November 14, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful reminded Pennsylvanians America Recycles Day , a program of Keep America Beautiful, is held on and around November 15 to educate and encourage individuals to be more mindful of what they consume, where and how to properly recycle and to pledge to recycle more and recycle right in their everyday lives.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Click Here for the 2019 report.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

recyclable materials, most notably plastic waste and unsorted paper. Recycling companies in high-income countries are scrambling to divert shipments. Towns across North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia are sending recyclable material to incinerators and reversing landfill bans. Recycling Is Not . contaminated.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 15, 2023

Scientists show that the yield of cabbages grown on soils supplied with two modern nitrified urine fertilizers recycled from human urine is approximately equal to the yield when soils are fertilized with commercial vinasse. The first NUF was Aurin , recently approved for use in human agriculture in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

KALW reports that the county mandated that local water retailers cut water use by 15 percent compared to 2019 on June 9 of this year. A massive spill into the Santa Monica Bay due to problems at a Los Angeles sewage treatment plant last month severely reduced the region’s capacity to recycle water.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 15, 2024

Colgate-Palmolive, the market leader in toothpaste, introduced recyclable toothpaste tubes under its Tom’s of Maine Brand in 2019 along with plans to completely transition to the format globally by the end of 2025. Two years later, the $19.5

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 10, 2023

Cardinal Health has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. The post Cardinal Health Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases by 50% by 2030 ? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. reuse, recycling, or disposal as solid waste). The 2019 amendment extends special treatment with respect to capacity need to certain small hydroelectric projects (those with total capacity less than or equal to 5 MW). A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 26, 2021

million tonnes to single-use plastic waste around the world in 2019 alone. No amount of “innovative management or recycling” that Big Plastic is pushing as an alternative to reduced production and use can address this waste tsunami. . Overall, less than 10 per cent of it will be recycled. ExxonMobil’s share was 5.6

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2024

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful has a partnership with TerraCycle to recycle and compost the cigarette butt waste that is collected. The filters are melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled industrial products, such as plastic pallets. Of the total estimated litter, 186.2 million or 37.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

. -- Jim Means, nominated by Keep Fayette County Green: Jim Means has a dedication and passion for recycling. Monthly, Means holds a recycling collection and a fall hard -to-recycle event for Wharton and surrounding townships, providing residents an opportunity to recycle.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. million tons. -- In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25

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Acoel

APRIL 28, 2025

FANJ was also a sponsor of the event.

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