Latest Paper and cardboard recycling News

What-Goes-Where Tool for Residents Now Available to Waste Management Agencies

Toronto, Canada – Waste Nothing’s what-goes-where tool for residents is now being made available to local governments and other waste management agencies. By making information about proper disposal widely and easily accessible, agencies can improve customer service while better serving the environment. Waste management agencies maintain excellent resources on the correct procedures for trash, recyclables, electronic and household hazardous wa... [more]

World first for full scale autoclaving with wet AD (2/2)

Unlocking potential The Lee Moor facility will be made up of two autoclave plants, screening and separation equipment, anaerobic digestion plant with associated buffer and digestate storage tanks, dewatering plant and a combined heat and power (CHP) plant. The two autoclaves will operate in parallel, each treating mixed municipal wastes in ten tonne batches at temperatures of approximately 160oC for 45 minutes at a pressure of seven bar. ... [more]

DEMAND for greener office paper is soaring according to one of the UK’s biggest business suppliers

Banner Business Services has produced its one billionth sheet of ‘Closed Loop’ paper thanks to orders from green offices and purchasing chiefs in the UK. Banner uses a unique Closed Loop paper system that sees waste paper collected, securely destroyed, segregated at a mill, pulped without chemicals and returned as 100% recycled copier paper. This process is audited and can be undertaken several times. It means the same paper used by an office... [more]

New partnership between Budget Pack and CCR UK to provide unrivalled compliance management and ‘next generation’ take-back solutions across the UK

Reverse Logistics Group, the parent company of CCR Logistics Systems AG and its UK subsidiary, CCR UK Ltd, and Budget Pack have agreed a working partnership which acknowledges their shared commitment to providing a forward-thinking compliance scheme solution and ‘return-to-value’ waste management approach for companies and organisations of all sizes across the UK. Under the new partnership agreement, Budget Pack will take on the compliance sc... [more]

SWR is appointed by the Langham, London to manage waste

SWR is now managing the entire waste contract for The Langham, London, a renowned 5* luxury hotel in London. SWR specialises in the hotel and catering sector and has been appointed to manage all of the hotel’s waste. Under the new waste contract SWR intends to raise recycling levels from the current rate of 35 percent to an impressive 75 percent over the first year of the contract and in the process realise significant reductions of The Langham... [more]

Other Paper and cardboard recycling news and reviews

Marple recycling yard waste, equipment and paper
Despite the lack of spring weather, Marple residents are engaged in spring cleaning.

Anchorage Edges Closer to Glass Recycling Solution
Compared to just a few years ago it's easier recycle in Anchorage. Since 2008, curbside recycling of paper, cardboard and plastics has spread throughout the municipality. And there are drop-off locations for other things from construction materials to electronics. But there's one thing that people can't recycle that they used to be able to: glass. KSKA's Daysha Eaton looks into what's holding up ...

Firefighters battle ‘large-scale’ blaze at cardboard recycling plant
Firefighters are working to put out a major fire at a Scarborough cardboard recycling plant.

Super Shredder Day: Benefits of recycling your paper
It takes almost a billion trees to make the amount of paper that people throw away each year, but we can save 17 of those trees, for every ton of paper we recycle which is good for the environment.

Arrow Refuse To Offer Curbside Recycling In Juneau
The state-regulated company that collects garbage in Juneau will start offering curbside recycling next month. Arrow Refuse plans to pick up comingled materials, including paper, cardboard, metal cans, and plastics, but not glass. Customers can opt-in to the service for $3.11 a month.

UOI preps for new equipment to arrive
Unlimited Opportunities, Inc., a local 501(c)3, is steadily recovering from a devastating fire that destroyed their operations base on Feb. 2. In a warehouse that formerly housed Orscheln Farm & Home Supply, two balers compact paper, cardboard and textiles in preparation for recycling. These balers, the only industrial grade equipment now in the warehouse, were funded by the scrap metal that lay ...

Recycling and Composting Drive Success of Diversion and Recovery Goals at 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open
TEMPE, Ariz., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Management officially announced today the final diversion and recovery percentages as part of the Zero Waste Challenge from this year's Waste Management ...

Sylva's Jackson Paper is state's largest cardboard recycler
“The Mountaineer” was installed in 1927 and still rolls out cardboard at Jackson Paper. / Special to the Citizen-Times SYLVA — Surrounded by mountains whose woods and waters were once sacrificed for industrial products a century ago, the old mill at Jackson Paper Manufacturing Co. has grown greener with the times, recycling the old into new and reclaiming its waste.

Paper Shredding Business Expands
A new document shredding and processing plant has opened up in Rapid City. Badger State Recovery Incorporated offers confidential document shredding along with fluorescent light recycling services.

Lynchburg hoping recycling program doesn't suffer, despite cuts
Four of the city’s nine recycling drop-offs are set to close in July due to budget cuts. Officials are searching for a way to keep the sites open while clipping costs.