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Mitre 10 has launched a nationwide roll-out of Pot Recycle, a ‘closed loop’ solution that stops garden pots ending up in landfill and reduces the amount of new plastic used to make plant and seedling pots.
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Robotics Takes Plastic Recycling To The Next Level
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Several new and exciting projects have taken root worldwide in the recycling industry that involves robots and artificial intelligence (AI). From large-scale to individual machines, these improvements to the sector will dramatically increase the recycling rate of municipal waste.
20,000 pounds of trash removed from Pacific Garbage Patch
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Recent tests on Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat’s ocean cleanup rig called System 002 were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.
Engineers Have Invented an Entirely New Approach to Recycling Plastic
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A new study demonstrates the proof-of-concept of an entirely new approach to plastic recycling, inspired by the way nature naturally ‘recycles’ the components of organic polymers present in our environment.
Aircraft recycling: How planes are being turned into items like Coke cans
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With COVID-19 bringing forward the retirement of hundreds of airliners, there’s now massive money to be made from recycling them. There are dozens of companies around the world which dismantle airliners and salvage what they can for resale.
Work starts on plant to recycle blended fibres
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Australian start-up BlockTexx has begun work on what it claims will the the first textile recycling plant capable of separating and recycling blends of cotton and polyester fibres at scale.
Hello poo-powered dairies, goodbye recycling bins
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The New South Wales south coast is powering ahead when it comes to alternative energy projects, with dairies soon to be powered by poo and new solar farms being built, and plans for a state-of-the-art recycling machine.
Natural enzymes revolutionize plastic recycling
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Plastic recycling is still in its infancy – only a small part of the waste is recyclable. Natural enzymes could get the circular economy going.
Auckland factory producing recyclable meat trays
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An Auckland packaging company is working to remove the confusion around recycling plastic, one meat tray at a time. Pact Packaging’s Kiwi-designed meat trays – made from Polyethylene Terephthalate, or PET – can be recycled.
Newspaper recycling resumes for Lions
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The Gore Pakeke Lions are back in the paper recycling business as the price for recycled paper stabilises. In February last year, the recycling factory the club runs in the town stopped collecting paper.
Can the Tokyo Games get a perfect recycling score?
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Before the pandemic arrived and safety became such a high priority, the Olympic Commission announced it was to be the ‘most sustainable one’ since the Games started in 1896. But what does that mean exactly?
Repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling e-waste from smartphones. Here’s why.
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As smartphone sales have skyrocketed, so has the device’s contribution to waste streams and carbon emissions. Manufacturers will need to conserve resources as 6 of the key elements for mobile phones will run out in the next 100 years.