Soft drink majors Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have announced their decision to leave the Plastics Industry Association- a trade association that represents plastics industry. They now join other companies such as Clorox, Becton Dickinson and Ecol...
In the Hallmarked category, the 14 carat gold scrap prices went higher by $ 2.44 per Oz. The daily scrap gold prices - hallmarked and non- hallmarked edged higher marginally on Monday, 29th July, 2019 on the ScrapMonster Price Index. Howeve...
Sweden has one of the highest recycling rates in the world: in 2017, 99.5% of household waste was diverted from sanitary landfills and recycled in one way or another. This is made possible through the efforts of the Swedish government, muni...
The medals awarded during next summers Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyoset to kick off July 24, 2020will be completely made from recycled materials. The process has been in the works since early 2017, when Japan announced it would coll...
Following months of uncertainty with regards to restrictions on fiber imports into the country, the Indonesian government announced two separate categories to evaluate contamination in imported loads. In accordance with the latest communica...
Indonesia returned seven shipping containers of illegally imported waste back to France and Hong Kong on July 29. This marks the most recent move by a Southeast Asian nation to send back trash misleadingly labeled as recycled materials. The...
The recycling and reuse of small electrical and electronic in the UK has been boosted by a 3.5m fund. The cash comes from producer compliance schemes that opt to pay a fee if they are short of their annual collection targets: since 2017 thi...
Citizens of Rome can now get a discount on public transport by recycling plastic bottles. Over 11 000 used bottles have been recycled in the last two weeks. People will receive a credit of five cents for each plastic bottle recycled, meanin...
The new 3.5 million Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) fund from producer compliance schemes aims to boost recycling and reuse of small electrical and electronic devices in the UK. The fund will allow households to dispose of...
