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Newsletter Headline — October 16, 2019

The Recycling Partnership and The PepsiCo Foundation Raise $25 Million for U.S. Recycling – Reaching Funding Goal One Year Into Five-Year Challenge

The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, and national nonprofit The Recycling Partnership announced that their All In On Recycling challenge, the largest ever industry-led residential recycling challenge in the United States, has successfully raised $25 million in a little more than a year since launch […]

Newsletter Headline — October 16, 2019

Circular Economy — October 16, 2019

PV Cycle and Recycling PV Solar Announce Integrated Partnership for Recycling in USA

Recycle PV Solar and PV Cycle announce the start of an integrated partnership between two organizations promoting solar PV recycling and waste treatment of all components of a PV system. This partnership allows both companies to quickly ramp up a nation-wide management of decommissioned PV Power plants collection and treatment for discarded solar panels. Over 7 million […]

Circular Economy — October 16, 2019

Newsletter Headline — October 16, 2019

Scientists Convert Municipal Waste to Biofuel Precursors

In a new study published in the journal ChemSusChem, researchers at Berkeley Lab created six blends that combined MSW items (non-recyclable paper and grass clippings) with biomass (corn stover and switchgrass). Using an ionic liquid-based process, they converted these blends into methyl ketones, which are chemical compounds that can be used as diesel fuel precursors. […]

Newsletter Headline — October 16, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 16, 2019

TERRA Joins the Second International E-Waste Day to Raise Global Awareness About the Growing Problem of E-Waste

The Electronics Reuse & Recycling Alliance (TERRA) has joined one hundred organizations from over forty countries worldwide organizing activities as part of the second International E-Waste Day. The event, organized by the WEEE Forum, an international association of e-waste collectors and its members, brings together e-waste stakeholders across the world to promote the correct disposal […]

Collection/Transfer — October 16, 2019

Newsletter Headline — October 15, 2019

New Recycling Program Finds Uses for Surplus Eyewear Production Materials

Thema Optical, an Italian manufacturer of high-end and custom-made eyewear with a U.S. factory in Miami, has announced a new recycling program in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle®. Thema manufacturers made-to-measure, bespoke eyewear through its patented 3D Acetate Technology where every design is “sculpted” like an art piece. Revolutionizing the eyewear industry, Thema creates […]

Newsletter Headline — October 15, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 15, 2019

EPA Issues Supplemental Proposal for Renewable Fuels Volumes

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking seeking additional comment on the recently proposed rule to establish the cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel volumes for 2020 and the biomass-based diesel volume for 2021 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. Today’s notice does not change the […]

Collection/Transfer — October 15, 2019

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