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The Food Waste Composting Machine market report provides a unique, first-time market and competitive analysis of the size, segmentation, competition, trends and outlook in the manufacture and supply of Food Waste Composting Machine in the world. Link: http://microfinancepost.com/2019/06/23/food-waste-composting-machine-market-by-major-players-development-opportunities-market-driving-forces-forecast-2024/

North Carolina based recycled fibre specialist, Unifi, has launched a new sustainable product dubbed REPREVE Our Ocean which is made from bottles collected within 50 kilometres of coastlines in countriesareas that lack formal wasterecycling systems. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/new-sustainable-fiber-from-bottles-at-high-risk-of-entering-the-ocean

New peer-reviewed CEWEP calculations show that 142 million tonnes of residual waste treatment capacity will be needed by 2035 in order to fulfil the currently set EU targets on municipal waste and assuming that recycling targets are achieved. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/peer-reviewed-cewep-calculations-show-42mt-residual-waste-gap-in

Canadian plasma torch and waste to energy technology developer, PyroGenesis Canada, has received a 3.64 million purchase order for a non-military land-based waste treatment system, together with the first payment. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/36m-non-military-order-for-land-based-waste-to-energy-system-for-pyrogenesis

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with low-income and communities of color, I see incineration as a poor waste management option. Link: http://theconversation.com/is-burning-trash-a-good-way-to-handle-it-waste-incineration-in-5-charts-118665

The Nigerian Government, the Global Environment Facility and UN Environment have announced a 15-million initiative to kick off a circular electronics system in Nigeria. Link: https://www.thegef.org/news/nigeria-turns-tide-electronic-waste

VTT is developing technology to complement a variety of mechanical recycling methods for plastics with chemical recycling based on pyrolysis. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/vtt-to-add-new-methods-to-the-plastics-recycling-chain

Today I caught a glimpse of the future, and it involves some very large rotating drums. Link: https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/17722886.make-waste-world-our-new-tourist-attraction/

People, globally, are innovating, creating new processes to use waste plastics and making new objects and art forms. Link: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-good-news-about-plastic-waste/

Developing nations in Asia are no longer willing to receive metric tonnes of untreated, unsorted rubbish. Link: https://thediplomat.com/2019/06/asia-stands-up-to-waste-colonialism/