Do a study on whether recycling plastic bottles is worth the effort.
The scheme has made no change to recycling plastic bottles and food packaging, which can still be dropped off at the bring bank sites.
According to the Container Recycling Institute, U.S plastic recycling rates have been in decline for the past 10 years (some of this may have to do with the fact that waste is increasingly being shipped to places like China, which now boasts the world's biggest plastic recycling plant in Beijing).
By tackling the harder problem of recycling ocean plastic, Method hopes to raise awareness about the greater need to use post-consumer plastics.
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Or what about the questionable behavior of not recycling your plastic bags?
The plastic bag manufacturers point to several inaccuracies on the page, including stats such as a 1 percent recycling rate for plastic bags.
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Its 300 plastic recycling bins are being replaced with 418 sleek aluminum bins some for bottles, others for cans and more for paper products.
As a result, plastic recycling programs have met with varying degrees of success around the world: in Sweden the recycling rate of PET bottles in 2004 was 80 percent compared to the U.S which was 15 percent.
Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Also, I take excessive pleasure in returning several months' worth of our own empties at once, feeding them into our supermarket's can, glass and plastic recycling machines and departing with a heroic amount of cash sometimes as much as seven or eight dollars that I can spend on anything I want.
The department said the move would help to collect more plastic for recycling.
As an alternative to bag taxes or bans, bag makers and retailers have been pushing programs that mandate or encourage plastic bag recycling.
ChicoBag founder and CEO Andy Keller says that stat came from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but that agency has since revised its stats, putting plastic bag recycling rates in about the 6-percent range.
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The workshop will comprise 33 participants from 23 municipalities, craftspeople or individuals directly involved in the production of textile sector crafts (weaving, embroidery, basketry or any fiber work, plastic and recycling, painting on textile and mixed techniques and media).
The workshop will be attended by 29 participants from 18 municipalities, craftspeople or individuals directly involved in the production of textile sector crafts (weaving, embroidery, basketry or any fiber work, plastic and recycling, painting on textile and mixed techniques and media).
On Saturdays the haulers, their wives and their children gathered at the recycling center to clean out the plastic pails they gave to customers for collecting the newspapers, magazines, bottles and other recycling materials.
Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of the PC industry's first recycling system that collects used CDs and DVDs at Fujitsu Group recycling centers and reuses the plastic in the bodies of notebook PCs.
The bags can be deposited alongside plastic shopping bags for recycling.
Mr Wilson will check what residents in Mansfield are putting in their green wheelie bins and in blue recycling bins - which are for plastic bottles, glass, cardboard and cans.
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While the recycling numbers at the bottom of plastic items "are not meant to provide health information or risks, " Dr. Halden says, they can sometimes provide clues to the chemicals in them.
To avoid the risk of contaminants being mixed into the recycled plastic, the new recycling system performs quality control based on a chemical substances risk management database developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, thereby ensuring that notebook PCs and other ICT devices comply with legal requirements for chemical components.
More than 100, 000 pounds of plastic resin will be created by recycling this boom, which means that there will be 100, 000 fewer pounds of waste from the Gulf oil spill.
Recycling Technologies, which aims to create electricity from plastic, has recently moved into the town.
Ziploc and RecycleBank are joining forces to launch a new recycling program to help reduce the environmental impact of Ziploc plastic bags.
Although the French have become increasingly green-minded, with plastic bags disappearing from supermarket checkouts and regular recycling collections, Mr Sarkozy's plans have prompted a political outcry.
Mr Cockburn said that some items which seem like ideal candidates for recycling, like wrapping paper or cards backed with foil or plastic, simply will not be accepted.
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Although most cities continue to sell the materials immediately, that is not the case at a number of recycling plants that have been accumulating a cache of cardboard and plastic.
Recycling the scraps of material donated by clothing factories and sculpting plastic bottles donated by residents of the community into packaging, are not only environmentally friendly, but financially benefit to the company.
Next, Method teamed with like-minded Envision Plastics, which created a new recycling process, combining a minimum of 10 percent of ocean plastic with regular curbside recycled plastic to create higher quality bottles.
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"I'm all for recycling -- but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s, " he said.
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