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School Recycling Programme Fun For Students

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It’s been an exciting week for students at Pyes Pa School. A delivery of 27 plants has arrived as a reward for their recycling efforts – all part of the Paper4Trees programme they have been involved in since 2002.

Major food brands launch fund for bag, pouch recycling

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Mars UK, Mondelez International, Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever have jointly launched a $1.5 million fund that aims to invest in efforts to make plastic bags, wrappers, firms, pouches, packets and sachets easier for consumers to recycle.

Polypropylene recycling from carpet waste

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A significant part of carpet waste consists of petroleum-based polypropylene. As a non-recyclable product, disposing of it has previously meant incineration or landfill. However, a new solvent is now making it possible to recover virgin-standard polypropylene from carpet waste.

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RecycleKiwi hero Ollie is stuck on bins

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Bins, bins, bins… 7-year-old Ollie Chamberlain can’t get enough of them! So, when he received a pack of RecycleKiwi waste separation stickers in the post, he was super excited and quickly got to work labelling all his bins. “He spent

Pandemic mask mountain sets new recycling challenge

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Researchers in Australia want to transform single-use COVID masks into road material. In the United States, the protective gear is recycled into benches. And in France, they are reborn as floor carpets for cars.