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The United Kingdom's Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has committed to investing more than 670,000 pounds ($1.323 million) in new wood recycling facilities, which will increase the quantity of post-consumer wood debris diverted from landfill. Urban Forest Ltd. and McGrath Brothers Ltd. will receive the funding to install new ......

HEADNOTE MBA POLYMERS INC. HEADNOTE MBA Polymers locates plastics recycling plant in Guangzhou. RICHMOND, CALIF.-BASED MBA Polymers Inc. is not in China because of the vast Asian nation's famed supply of relatively cheap labor. "It's all about the size of the marketplace in southern China," stresses Richard McCombs, president and ......

Much has changed from the days when recycled paper was considered a niche market. Recycling is now an integral, part of daily life for many people and recycled paper is an integral part of the paper chain, on an international scale. Many grades of packaging materials, newsprint, and tissue are ......

The use of recycled glass in the furnace provides both environmental and financial benefits, however with the range of different glass colours being produced, recycling plants are relying on the development of more advanced sorting methods to help process the waste glass. Peter Mayer(*) discusses the use of colour separation ......

Of Canada's 10 provinces, eight have enacted bottle deposit laws to encourage and fund recycling efforts. Manitoba and Ontario are the two exceptions--and in a big way. * Manitoba uses a tax on certain beverage containers to fund broad recycling initiatives. * Ontario will implement a complex municipal waste diversion ......

Japan's Paper Recycling Promotion Center released statistics on recovery and usage of recycled paper in 2002. Total recovery of paper and paperboard was slightly over 20 million metric tons in Japan, and consumption of paper and paperboard was 30.6 million metric tons. The net result is a 65.4% recovery rate ......

A Recycling Culture In 1999, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) decreased landfill waste by nearly 4,000 tons (3,628 metric tons) through recycling and waste-reduction activities. These efforts yielded nearly $50,000 through the sale of recycled materials and saved the department more than $500,000 in disposal costs. Though the ......