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About a month after the city of Owensboro announced it was no longer accepting cardboard at the recycling center at 1401 W. Seventh St., Owensboro stopped collecting magazines and books on Thursday. Link:

KOLKATA: The civic solid waste management department has decided o set up small compost plants across the city, where biodegradable garbage will be converted into fertilizer. Link:

More than a million electrical items are being incineratedsent to landfill each week, according to new figures, creating a “tsunami of electronic waste”. Link:

BANGKOK (The Japan News/ANN): To help Southeast Asia address a growing problem with marine pollution from plastic waste, a Japanese research group is planning to launch a full-fledged investigation into the issue in April. Link:

Scientists have figured out a way to recycle plastic hundreds of times without losing the quality of the material. Currently, most plastics can only be recycled twothree times before the quality degrades so much that it becomes unusable. Link:

New York City’s Department of Sanitation reported that New York City recycles 18 of trash from homes and 25 of trash from businesses. The city isn’t doing as well as SeattleSan Francisco, according to the New York Times. Link to full article

Packaging firm says its “infinitely recyclable” containers provide an alternative to plastic in several packaging applications. Link to full article

Researchers from the Universities of Bath and Birmingham claim progress on recycling plant-based plastics such as PLA. Link to full article

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) – In the United States alone people send more food to the landfill than any other type of waste. Participating in city composting is a way to turn that waste into compost, a valuable material for soil for growing food. Link to full article

“It doesn’t have to smell, it doesn’t have to draw flies, and it doesn’t have to draw rodents.” Food waste, according to Glenn Gilbert, director of facilities, doesn’t have to be gross. Link to full article