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Entries Tagged as 'Plastic Recycling'

The Plastiki Arrives in Sydney

July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Plastiki seen here sailing into Sydney, near the famous Sydney Opera House landmark. Photo: Adventure Ecology.
Plastiki, the world’s first 60-foot catamaran made from recycled plastic water bottles sailed triumphantly into Sydney Harbor last Monday (26th July 2010, Sydney time) after an epic 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco.

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Tags: News · Plastic Recycling · Sustainability

California Getting Closer To Banning The Bag

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Paper or Plastic? In this video from National Geographic, Edward Norton describes a simple easy step everyone can take to help clean up the environment.
California may very well be on the way to be the first state to ban single-use plastic bags from grocery stores, pharmacies, convenience stores, and other commercial establishments statewide. California Assembly [...]

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Tags: Environment · Plastic Recycling

Plastic Recycling Facility In Oklahoma Nearing Completion

November 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

A state-of-the-art plastic recycling facility near Watts, Oklahoma is scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2010. This was announced recently by Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. (AERT), a leading plastic recycler firm based in Springdale, Arkansas.

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The Future Is Here: Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel

September 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Plastic waste into fuel? (Photo: Envion)
If you’ve been following this blog for a while now, you know that plastic recycling is one of the environmental initiatives that we support in this site. That’s why when I came across this news about a company that proposes to convert plastic waste into fuel, I simply couldn’t contain [...]

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Tags: Environment · News · Plastic Recycling

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off

Out of sight, out of mind – that’s the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to most of us. But this floating ocean dump covering millions of square miles of the Pacific is no less real than the computer mouse you’re holding right now, reading this article. It’s out there, slowly constricting ocean life, and we all [...]

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Tags: Environment · Plastic Recycling

Plastic Recycling Symbols Revisited

July 13th, 2009 · 12 Comments

This is actually a spin of an article on plastic recycling symbols I’ve published elsewhere,  I just thought it would do some good to post it here. I’ve been noticing that most visitors to this blog are brought here by the search engines after they entered the phrase “plastic recycling symbols.” The information here is [...]

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Recycling Bottles and The 21st Century Waterfall

April 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments

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Top Ten Styrofoam Recycling Tips

November 27th, 2008 · 20 Comments

Expanded polystyrene foam, commonly referred to as styrofoam, is one of the most common materials used in a wide variety of applications – from appliances packaging to take-out food containers to building insulation. Styrofoam recycling is slowly expanding in the US, but at present there is still so much of this material that ends up [...]

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Recycling Facts – Exciting Innovations in Recycling

June 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments

As promised in our initial post on recycling facts, we will be publishing more facts about recycling as we come across the information in the web and elsewhere. Here are some interesting and cutting-edge recycling facts we managed to dig up today. Enjoy.
Recycling Facts – Aluminum

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Tags: Plastic Recycling · Recycling

Bisphenol A Controversy – A Deadly Illusion?

May 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

While doing my homework on polycarbonate plastic and plastic recycling, I came across several online discussions about Bisphenol A or BPA. There has been a lot of concern about this chemical in recent years due to the adverse findings of scientists about it and the “controversy” raging on in the scientific community about Bisphenol A’s harmful effects on [...]

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