Hydrovolt can take used batteries and turn them into a black powder from which it can recover the metals and make new batteries (Petter Berntsen) Norwegian battery recycling firm Hydrovolt said Tuesday that it will expand internationally by opening a facility in France, boosting a nascent hub for producing electric vehicle batteries. The facility will […]
Wow Gaston! No joke you have been filling that recycling bin book up at the Hardin Site quickly. Thanks for doing your part to reuse this valuable paper resource. If you missed last week’s article, we are now recycling hardback and paperback books at Hardin Recycle Center, for more details you can look online at the Solid […]
The Ventura City Council voted Tuesday to initiate a new rate study for water and wastewater services in response to higher cost estimates for the city’s planned water recycling program. Residents could see higher utility bills as soon as July 2025, a year earlier than planned, to help fund the VenturaWaterPure program. The project includes […]
Jun. 25—GOSHEN — Illegal dumping helped cost the city of Goshen two Elkhart County recycling centers. Is Goshen’s current site at the same risk? Goshen Director of Public Works and Utilities Dustin K. Sailor verified by email Tuesday that dumping has been occurring at the Indiana Avenue recycling site. The security cameras set up there […]
Cambridge researchers may have a new adage thanks to an ingenious method that can apparently make cleaner cement as part of the steelmaking process. As a result, it seems that two dirty materials can make a clean one. While the would-be proverb isn’t quite on par with offerings from Confucious, the science behind the breakthrough […]
CHEYENNE — A fire broke out at Ruben’s Metals Wednesday morning, with heavy smoke blowing across Nationway and East Eighth Street, into a residential neighborhood. Isaiah Castaneda, the owner’s son, was in the process of crushing a car when the fire started. “I took the gas tank out, crushed it a little bit, stacked it […]
KSNF/KODE — Inconsistent trash pick up from one Arkansas-based trash company is impacting residents across the Four State area. Residents told us it’s been several weeks and even months since they’ve seen a CARDS Recycling garbage truck come by. These complaints have landed on the Missouri Attorney General’s desk, and are now under investigation with […]
Jun. 12—A monetary grant of more than a half million dollars to Decatur’s recycling program will be used to buy thousands of large recycling bins and to make improvements at the Recycling Center. Operated by the Morgan County Regional Landfill, the program received a $217,500 grant from Recycling Partnership, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that promotes […]
Packaging technology specialist EcoCortec has kickstarted its partnership with German packaging company Jakob Schober by delivering plastic waste from the town of the German town of Waldorf to Beli Manastir, Croatia. The direct customer-manufacturer relationship will see plastic scrap recovered and incorporated back into finished goods at EcoCortec’s recycling facility. The scrap is re-granulated using […]
Jun. 3—Shelby Kaye remembers vividly how she and her partner wound up in Santa Fe in 2018. The couple — who met while attending Pilchuck Glass School in Washington — spent two years traveling across the country in a school bus outfitted as a home, affectionately known as a “schoolie,” making the trip to Santa […]
May 31—The Butler County Solid Waste District is seeking approval from communities across the county on the five-year update to the district’s 15-year plan that seeks an increase in recycling. Every county in Ohio has a solid waste management plan, which is required by the Ohio Revised Code. The Butler County Solid Waste Management Plan […]
The Biden administration has announced that Southern California’s plan to build the largest wastewater recycling plant in the nation will be supported by $99.2 million in federal funds, an investment that officials said represents a down payment toward making the region more resilient to the effects of climate change. The proposed facility, called Pure Water […]