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Plastics from ELVs could go straight back into new vehicles

Letsrecycle.com (http://www.letsrecycle.com) reports that a two-year project, entitled “PROVE”, has established a set of industry-wide generic standards for recycled plastics across a range of engineering applications. Led by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) and the Consortium for Automotive Recycling (CARE Group), the study claims that it will give manufacturers – …

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US City-run prison to quit sorting garbage

Folsom, California plans to close its city-run prison in which nearly 400 minimum-security inmates sort recyclables from trash and launch a kerbside recycling collection programme instead. City officials say the plant was losing US$1.5 million annually

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