The study, released by Carbon Mapper on Thursday, found that 52% of landfills surveyed had point source methane emissions and cast doubt on existing estimates.
Author: Bob Hollis
Recycling Today
Source: Texas group seeks cooperation with California on container recycling – Recycling Today
Plastic packaging could be designed for recycling from the start, rather than squeezed haphazardly into recycling systems after the fact, with greater collaboration and stakeholder involvement along the entire value chain, several speakers said Monday at the Plastics Recycling Conference in Grapevine, Texas. Continue Reading→
Source: Panel digs into intersection of design, recyclability
Scrap PET imports reached an all-time single-month record high in January, coming on the heels of a year that brought record-high imports of the post-consumer resin. For the U.S. plastics recycling industry, the influx, primarily of flaked material, is piling …Continue Reading→
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Truck-mounted, AI-enabled cameras are helping haulers identify and measure recycling contamination in real time, allowing them to communicate directly with customers on how to improve. Many haulers, including WM, use the tech.
Source: Collection trucks get AI upgrades to fight contamination | Waste Dive
Research shows confusion over date labels accounts for 8 percent of consumer food waste in the U.S., costing around $30 billion a year. In this Q&A Dana Gunders, executive director of ReFED, updates us on the status of the Food Date Labeling Act, introduced to the legislature for the third time.
The U.S. EPA received 45 state priority climate action plans, the first step in accessing Climate Pollution Reduction Grant funding.
A global study identified 61 PFAS chemicals in food packaging that are not authorized for use in such products
Source: 61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Packaging | Scientific American