USA – nation‘s first statewide plastic bag recycling programme

On Labor Day weekend, Rhode Island became the first state in the United States to offer a statewide collection and recycling program for plastic grocery bags. The programme is free for both consumers and the markets that display the collection barrels. Dubbed “ReStore,” the project was developed by the Rhode …

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USA – Municipal Solid Waste – 2003 Facts and Figures

Recycling Recycling, including composting, diverted 72 million tons of material away from disposal in 2003 (up from 15 million tons in 1980, when the recycle rate was just 10 %), and 90 % of MSW was being recycled. Typical materials that are recycled include batteries, recycled at a rate of …

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