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Some Central Ohio recycling companies blame China’s ban on imported plastic waste for rising costs and lower revenues. Link: Some Central Ohio recycling companies blame China’s ban on imported plastic waste for rising costs and lower revenues.

Pilot will demonstrate how to utilise the green waste that fills 50 of regional landfills and help diminish production of Green House Gases. Link: Pilot will demonstrate how to utilise the green waste that fills 50% of regional landfills and help diminish production of Green House Gases.

The method I&8217m most familiar with is vermicomposting (from the Latin vermis, meaning worm). Link: https://www.providencejournal.com/entertainmentlife/20190315/trash-tutorial-composting-can-be-done-indoors-in-three-ways

With China no longer accepting used plastic and paper, communities are facing steep collection bills, forcing them to end their programsburnbury more waste. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html

Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash. Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/

US chemical firm Eastman is developing a process to recycle polyester plastic waste, breaking down the material through a chemical process so that it can then be used in the production of new polymers. Link: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/us-firm-develops-chemical-recycling-process-for-plastic/

Products may be superficially olddamaged but their basic elements can always be reused, the materials engineer says Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/06/nothing-should-be-classified-waste-veena-sahajwalla-sees-crisis-as-opportunity

Rapid growth in urban population, rise in environmental awareness, and stringent government regulation toward illegal dumping are the major drivers of the waste management market. Link: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/05/1747957/0/en/Global-Waste-Management-Market-to-Reach-484-9-Billion-by-2025-at-6-0-CAGR-Says-Allied-Market-Research.html

The Caterer has switched to a fully compostable starch wrapper for its weekly print magazine, in association with Brita. Link: https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/547862/the-caterer-introduces-fully-compostable-magazine-wrapper

World Wide Fund for Nature‘s report says since the year 2000, the world has used more plastics than in all the years before. Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/world-entangled-plastic-waste-catastrophe-190305185554140.html