Unifi Announces New REPREVE Our Ocean Product Offering 2019-06-13 09:27:57 New Sustainable Fiber from Bottles at High Risk of Entering the Ocean North Carolina based recycled fibre specialist, Unifi, has launched a new sustainable product dubbed REPREVE Our Ocean which is made from bottles collected within 50 kilometres of coastlines in countries or areas that lack formal waste or recycling systems. read more ... Global Reporting Initiative Revision of its Reporting Standard on Waste 2019-06-13 07:55:35 A Reporting Standard that Responds to the Global Waste Crisis Anna Krotova of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) explains that in spite of ever growing volumes of waste being generated worldwide, new corporate reporting disclosures are needed to address the problem at its core. read more ... New Magnetic Sorting System for Ferrous & Non-Ferrous 2019-06-12 14:58:38 Goudsmit Magnetics & Soratec Join Forces on Mobile Magnetic Separator for Metal Recycling Goudsmit Magnetics and German firm Sortatec have collaborated on a mobile metal separator that sorts both ferrous and non-ferrous metals from bulk flows. read more ... Activated Carbon Helps Recycle Plastics into Aviation Fuel 2019-06-11 11:58:11 WSU Researchers Melt Waste Plastics with Carbon Catalyst to Produce Jet Fuel Scientists at Washington State University have described a new way to recycle plastic waste products into jet fuel in a paper published in the journal Applied Energy. read more ... 20p Scheme to Boost Bottle Collections for Recycling & Cut GHG Emissions 2019-06-11 10:57:08 Deposit Return Scheme to Cut 160,000 tonnes from Scotland’s Carbon Footprint Under Scotland’s deposit return scheme consumers will pay a 20p deposit when they buy a drink in a single-use container. They get that back when they return the empty bottle or can to be recycled. read more ... 10 Year Deal to Revamp Recycling Collections 2019-06-07 15:29:40 €243m Waste & Recycling Contract for SUEZ in Somerset French environmental services firm, SUEZ, has secured a 10 year contract worth around €243 million from the Somerset Waste Partnership. read more ... Report Author Atilio Savino Introduces the Key Points 2019-06-07 15:03:13 IN DEPTH: The Waste Management Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean Atilio Savino, Regional Development Network Representative for the Latin America Region, and Chief Editor & Author of the Report, introduces the key points discussed in the Waste Management Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean. read more ...