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Mobile, Ala. Opens New Recycling Drop-Off Center for Residents
2024-04-17 13:00:00| Waste Age
This week, a new recycling center has opened for residents of Mobile, Alabama, aptly named the Parkway Recycling Center on the Peninsula.
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How Materials Science Fuels Circularity
2024-04-16 15:20:05| Waste Age
Transforming plastic waste and renewable waste (like used cooking oil and inedible plant waste) requires stakeholders across waste management, recycling, design, manufacturing, retail, brand ownership, public policy and consumer segments to work together. This web of interrelated services, technologies and products that transform plastic waste and renewable waste into useful materials is what we call the materials ecosystem
Category: Energy and Environment
Emerging Contaminant Concerns Drive Changes in Sludge Management
2024-04-16 14:25:52| Waste Age
About 50 percent of sludge has been land applied in the U.S. historically, though now states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are starting to scrutinize this practice as per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), microplastics, and other emerging contaminants hit the radar. The concern is that these toxins will leak into groundwater, streams, and rivers; but needing to find alternative management methods is not without challenges.
Category: Energy and Environment