Archive for the ‘Recycling’ Category
Plastic manhole covers thwart would-be scrap thieves
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Scrap theft is serious problem, and I've written about plastics companies that have been victims. But here's a twist -- an application for plastics that can benefit from the trend. The Western Daily Press in Somerset, England, writes today about...
Stolen antique cannon recovered
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Remember the story about the antique cannon that was stolen from a Michigan plastics fabricator? Good news: it's been recovered. Edston Plastic Co. in Romulus, Mich., was making a plastic replica of the cannon to be used as a donation...
HP tops list of sustainable electronics companies
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co., leads Greenpeace International's new list of electronics companies ranked by energy usage, green products and sustainable operations. Jeremy Carroll, a colleague at Waste & Recycling News, wrote about the report today. He notes new criteria this year also...
Plastics associations meet again on marine litter
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Following up on their meeting and joint declaration on plastics and marine debris back in March, global plastics industry leaders met again in Dubai this week. According to a news release put out by the American Chemistry Council's Plastics Division...
The plastics industry isn’t standing in the way of recycling
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
The plastics industry is not an obstacle to recycling. But despite all the effort that many have put into recycling, that's not universally understood outside the industry. I've been writing editorials for Plastics News pushing for expanding bottle deposit programs...
Stealing some hefty steel
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
When thieves burglarized a Michigan plastics fabricator, they probably didn't expect to get away with a 225-pound bronze cannon that dates to 1795. But that's exactly what they found at Edston Plastic Co. in Romulus, Mich., according to the Detroit...
Will the CD music format die next year?
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Is the CD about to go the way of 8-track tapes and disappear from music store shelves? That's the word from music magazine Side Line. Its story, citing unnamed sources, says major music labels plan to eliminate music CDs by...
Using recycled PET to make polyester ‘cool’
Monday, October 31st, 2011
The term "polyester slacks" might be not seem exactly cool or modern, but recycled PET just might help to make something old-fashioned seem new again. According to our sister publication Advertising Age, 85-year-old Haggar Clothing Co., is preparing to launch...
Creative recycling for Halloween costumes
Friday, October 28th, 2011
OK, this isn't a high-volume application for recycled plastics, but it's still pretty cool. Jim Griffioen, a stay-at-home Dad in the Detroit area, has blogged about making his son's Halloween costumes the past couple of years, and taken shots in...
Small town cancels bag ban
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
The town of Sioux Lookout in northwest Ontario is bucking a trend -- it just decided to reverse a ban on plastic bags. Bryan Meadows of The Chronicle Journal in Thunder Bay, Ontario, reports today that the town council removed...