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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

‘Recyclable roads’ could help tackle ocean pollution and be replicated across the UK. Link: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2019/03/05/new-factory-opens-to-turn-plastic-waste-into-road-surfacing/

Anyone can turn a yardeven a few pots into beautiful food, says Los Angeles gardening guru Lauri Kranz. Link: https://www.heraldcourier.com/community/finding-room-to-grow-almost-anywhere/article_f4c0e48f-6588-571b-9eba-e35d56e2bda1.html

DATA analytics specialists Topolytics are working with the Ordnance Survey to a ‘smart’ system to track and monitor all of the UK’s waste. The former has been chosen by the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) to design the system and capture the 20 million-plus movements of waste, including …