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VIDEO: Educational Animation on Plastic Bags and Recycling from VERDE Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/video-educational-animation-on-plastic-bags-and-recycling-from-verde

The Stockholm Biochar Project is turning the city’s park and garden waste into renewable energy for heating while sequestering carbon. Link: https://www.c40.org/case_studies/cities100-stockholm-world-s-first-urban-carbon-sink-with-biochar

Tetra Pak has joined forces with waste and resource Veolia in a bid to recycle all of the components of used beverage cartons collected within the European Union by 2025. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/tetra-pak-veolia-team-up-to-recycle-all-beverage-carton-components-in-eu

In the US and Canada, the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announced today the release of the Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2017. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/pet-recycling-rate-returns-to-growth-in-us-canada-in

Following the European Parliament’s adoption of its negotiating position on the Commission proposal on the reduction of certain plastic products, EuPC has warned of the possible negative effects for health and hygiene. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/eupc-caution-over-european-strategy-on-single-use-plastic-waste-reduction

A conveyor feed recently developed by Goudsmit Magnetics is able to increase the productivity of eddy current separators processing incinerator bottom ashRDF. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/new-conveyor-feed-boosts-yield-from-eddy-current-separators-at-waste-recycling-plants

Nestlé Waters North America has signed a significant agreement with recycled PET plastic (rPET) supplier CarbonLITE, which will expand its US operations by building a third facility in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/carbonlite-to-recycle-2bn-pet-bottles-in-new-facility-following-nestl-waters-deal

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Although it‘s just a prototype for now Link: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9891006/adidas-3d-printed-ocean-waste-sneaker