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1 | Plastics exporter slammed again over Philippines shipment
A Canadian exporter is being accused of continuing to send containers full of trash to the Philippines.
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2 | Major US school districts abandon EPS plates
More than 2 million K-12 students across the country will begin eating their meals on compostable fiber plates, instead of those made from expanded polystyrene.
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3 | Plastics-to-fuel group reaches out to state officials
If all non-recycled plastics in the U.S. were converted to oil, the effort would generate enough transportation fuel to power nearly 9 million cars per year.
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4 | Toronto expands program to include most films
Starting July 1, residents of Toronto will be allowed to put a wide variety of plastic film items in their curbside recycling bins.
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5 | Calling all recycling innovators
Submit your innovative ideas for improving the plastics recycling industry today.
The 2015 Recycling Innovators Forum and is now accepting entries from people and organizations with actionable ideas to advance recycling. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2015.
Up to 10 finalists will receive travel and lodging scholarships to attend the Resource Recycling Conference, to be held Sept. 28-30 in Indianapolis. The finalists will present their ideas to a panel of judges and an audience of industry decision-makers and investors at the Recycling Innovators Forum, held on Sept. 28 in conjunction with the conference. Judges will select a winner to receive a $20,000 prize to help move their innovation forward.
Resource Recycling magazine, sister publication to Plastics Recycling Update, will also feature the winning ideas in online and print stories.
In 2014, one winner was the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council, which aims to build stakeholder coordination around recovering and recycling plastic material from hospitals. Those receiving honorable mentions included Creative Plastics Technology, which creates moldings from mixed plastics otherwise headed to landfill, and Zzyzx Polymers, which used a continuous mechanochemical compatibilization to process and optimize the use of mixed plastics.
The third annual Recycling Innovators Forum is made possible thanks to major sponsorships from the American Chemistry Council's Plastics Division, Waste Management and Resource Recycling, Inc., with additional support from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers.
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6 | PetroChem Wire: Recycled Nylon 6 and 66 pellets strengthen
Recycled Nylon 6 and Nylon 66 prices are stronger in late May on proposed virgin nylon price increases.
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7 | NewsBits
Chinese regulators will crack down on abuses of licenses to import plastic scrap, and global beverage container recycling markets are expected to grow in coming years.
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8 | Request for proposals
The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks – Solid Waste Division is seeking information from current and potential mattress recyclers who might provide mattress recycling and related services to residents, businesses and other organizations in King County. Deadline to respond is 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, 2015. For more info, click here and click on the Solicitations tab in the left-hand column (you may enter the site either as a guest, or if previously registered, by logging on with your User ID. You will find the RFP listed under "Goods and Services").
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9 | Upcoming conferences and webinars
Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars!
If you have a conference or webinar that you would like listed, please send an email to [email protected] for consideration.
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10 | Jobs available and sought
Manager, Recycling Programs, Keep America Beautiful (Washington, D.C.).
Details are available here.
Quality Control Assistant, Denton Plastics (Portland, Oregon).
Details are available here.
Plant Manager, QRS (Baltimore, Maryland).
Details are available here.
Marketing Manager, Plastics Sales & Trading, TKO Polymers (Atlanta, Georgia).
Details are available here.
Plastic Sales & Marketing Representative, AMI Trading, Inc. (Miami, Florida).
Details are available here.
Various Positions, PRP Recycling (Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.
Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.
If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, contact Jared Paben at [email protected].
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