PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Join PA Resources Council in celebrating America Recycles Day by taking part in a free 60-minute webinar on November 14 providing practical tips on Recycling Right starting at 6:00 p.m. PRC is proud to help Pennsylvanians become environmental stewards by teaching government, businesses, and residents to waste less each day.” “An

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As governments combat inflation by raising interest rates, new job creation will slow down and impact economic activity and growth. The post Global Battery Recycling Market to Reach $23.4 Higher retail inflation will impact consumer confidence and spending.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. Can wind turbine blades be recycled? The company aims to make all its blades fully recyclable by 2030.

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Environmental Leader

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As support grows to reduce waste, the plastic recycling industry is expected to grow at a substantial rate over the next few years. The post Plastic Recycling Market Rapidly Growing Aided by Government and Industry Support appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 1 PA Bulletin announcing that Impecca is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( For more information on this program, visit DEPs Electronics Waste Recycling webpage.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This regulation is designed to reduce the carbon footprint of batteries, limit the use of hazardous materials, decrease reliance on raw materials from outside the EU, and promote high rates of collection, reuse, and recycling. The current battery supply chain faces several pressing challenges.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

Academics, civil society, and government officials were divided into groups focusing on science, health, labor, and the built environment. Indeed, 93% of the Indian labor force are so-called informal workers, comprising everything from small farmers and vegetable sellers to piece-work stitching and waste recyclers.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 28, 2021

GE Renewable Energy is collaborating with European partners neowa and LafargeHolcim to advance wind turbine recycling and reuse as part of broader efforts to contribute to the European Commission’s (EC) circular economy action plan. As governments and corporations aim to achieve their net zero targets, wind turbines are expected to.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

At this point, there are several great options for the battery: it can be reused, repurposed, or recycled. CA Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Advisory Group report. The EPA will be proposing new rules for waste designations to improve the management and recycling of batteries that may address this issue.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We need to take action to tackle the recyclability crisis on our shores. November 15 is America Recycles Day , and this year, it’s more important than ever. That starts with debunking common myths about recycling. You wouldn’t know by looking at them, but most takeout containers aren’t recyclable. Never miss an update.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Included in the regulation are requirements for mineral sourcing, life cycle emissions, information sharing, and recycling. However, innovative approaches can reduce those harms, including the creation of a circular economy through reuse and recycling.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Propelled by government investment and shareholder demand, manufacturers are pushing to get bio-based products into the marketplace. These new materials — made from plants, fungi, and microbes — aim to replace those that contain toxins and are difficult to recycle or reuse. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Recycling rare earth elements. Many governments, the mining industry, and renewable energy companies are committed to tackling it. In addition to increasing oversight and transparency into rare earth element supply chains, one of many viable solutions to mitigating rare earth element extraction is recycling permanent magnets.

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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. Why Is This Change Happening Again?

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Industry is pursuing various technologies to help solve the global plastic waste problem, but environmentalists say new recycling techniques only make environmental problems worse.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

All political signs will be recycled through an effort initiated by Keep Chester County Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. When government, residents, and businesses work together- great things can happen! To volunteer in the Coatesville area contact Shakira Davis at shakira@2ndcenturyalliance.org.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The UK government has released a long-term vision for the country’s burgeoning space sector. The National Space Strategy includes several measures that it says will “unleash” the industry’s potential and brings together – for the first time – the UK government’s civil and defence space activities. UK space sector set for take-off.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

On October 30, the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority announced the award of $44,755 in Recycling Mini-Grants to five recipients. The CCRRA mini-grant provides reimbursement grant funding for Centre County based projects that improve recycling education and collection of source-separated materials to be processed by CCRRA.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 2 PA Bulletin that MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( For more information on this program, visit DEP’s Electronics Waste Recycling webpage.

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Legal Planet

JULY 17, 2023

In the end, however, they came on board, along with several state governments. The five students decided to take on a project about railroad rate regulation and recycling. Even leading environmental groups discouraged his campaign, afraid of establishing a bad precedent if he failed.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the August 19 PA Bulletin has banned the sale of electronic products by Proexpress Distribution, LLC in Pennsylvania as a result of non-compliance with the electronic waste recycling law. ( For more information on this program, visit DEP’s Electronics Waste Recycling webpage.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Boost recycled content : require new plastic products to include a significant amount of recycled material. This will create a healthy market for recycled plastic . If it is not recyclable it should be banned. It wants government handouts to pay for experimental projects to burn plastic or turn it into fuel.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 12, 2022

The government finally posted draft regulations to ban six single-use plastics over the holidays. As written, the regulations wouldn’t rid Canada of the harmful products until sometime in 2024 at the earliest, an absurd timeline that undermines the government’s own promises to reign in plastic pollution. Unfortunately there’s a catch.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

On April 18, Texas-based Encina Development Group announced it will not move forward with its chemical plastics recycling plant in Northumberland County "at the current time." Chemical recycling is not a solution to the plastics crisis. Toxic chemical recycling is a false solution to the plastics crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On February 19, the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority announced Joanne Shafter, Deputy Executive Director and County Recycling Coordinator, will retire on February 29. According to Authority Chairman Dennis Hameister, “Joanne’s been the face of recycling in Centre County for over three decades.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

million pounds of materials were recycled and over 14,000 trees, flowers and other greens were planted. Generations of Pennsylvanians have been working with organizations and state and local governments to cleanup and beautify our shared public spaces across the state. million pounds of litter and trash were picked up, 4.5

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 26, 2021

Perhaps not surprisingly, these are the very same companies leading a coalition that filed a shocking lawsuit against the federal government last week suing them for taking action to tackle plastic pollution. Big Plastic wants to stop the federal government from regulating plastics under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Our report found 71% of Americans ordered takeout or delivery between one to three times a week, but less than half could correctly identify which types of food ware items could be recycled. Much of our takeout food comes in containers that are not recyclable. Yet 63% of Americans believed that the black plastics could be recycled.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority celebrated 50 years this month. In honor of the 50th Anniversary, the Centre County Commissioners dedicated Proclamation 22 of 2022 – Proclaiming the 50th Anniversary of Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority in Centre County.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 18, 2022

Read the full story at Plastics Recycling Update. NOVA Chemicals is planning a pilot-scale reactor for plastics pyrolysis in 2022, the latest recycling-related move from the resin manufacturer.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

This is a government bowing to pressure from the Retail Council of Canada and its members, like Loblaw and Costco, instead of listening to the public and beverage companies. Last spring, beverage companies proposed a “pop can tax” to fund what would have been an ineffective public space recycling program.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2025

Here are three places governments, businesses and non-profits can prioritize to create a win for the economy and the environment: Support and improve refill systems for food and beverages. As trade in virgin packaging, recycling and waste becomes more complicated and expensive , so does single-use packaging.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

I saw human-powered carts carrying vast amounts of recyclable materials. According to Ocean Conservancy’s local partner Compromiso Empresarial para el Reciclaje (CEMPRE), by the end of their daily journey, each of these unrecognized environmentalists carry up to 330 pounds of recyclable materials on their backs.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2024

On April 3, the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority announced the promotion of Mimi Joy Cooper to the position of Authority Recycling Coordinator. Mimi has been with the Authority for 9 years, initially as a Customer Service Representative and more recently as the Assistant Recycling Coordinator.

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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 We’re at a loss for why the government is allowing the industry to go ahead with this plan.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Shamefully, Ontario is one of only two provinces in Canada without deposit return for non-alcoholic beverages, and as a result has the lowest drink container recycling rate in the country at only 43 per cent. This past summer, following vocal opposition from retailers, the government cancelled the working group and abandoned the policy.

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