Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...
The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...
Business owners are familiar with maintenance costs as a line item, but zeroing that line item out of a recycling company budget will ultimately prove even costlier. That was the message Buddy Himes ...
SYSTEM WILL SOON BE RETIRED. FOR 50 YEARS, THE AMES WASTE TO ENERGY SYSTEM HAS TURNED THE CITY’S GARBAGE INTO ELECTRICITY. KCCI PEPPER PEREIRA WENT TO THE FACILITY TO LEARN WHY AMES LEADERS THINK IT’S ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Portland is getting a little greener thanks to a new state-of-the-art recycling facility that just opened in north Portland. The $47-million facility, on North Hunt Street, is ...
Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...