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Waste Management is dispersing $150,000 in cash grants to be shared by 15 Keep America Beautiful (KAB) affiliates. The grants are part of the company's Think Green Community Improvement Grants — a national effort "encouraging the development of local solutions designed to improve community environments" … Patent No. 7,799,835 has been issued to Next-Tec, Ltd. for a method of recycling and/or reducing plastics and non-plastics from a waste stream by using infrared identification in sorting equipment … PetroChem Wire (PCW), a daily newsletter covering the petrochemical industry, has launched a new monthly publication providing the pricing trends for reprocessed and recycled plastic resins. "Repro/Regrind Report" was developed in response to requests from plastic recyclers to provide information on their market, and will provide transactional pricing for a variety of plastics … UK bottled water company Belu has launched the kingdom's first 50 percent rPET water bottle. The company says it developed the product partly due to overwhelming customer demand for recycled content in water bottles.