Xerox, Close the Loop Partner on Return, Recycling Program

Tennessee celebrates recycling day
The state’s environmental agency is celebrating America Recycles Day on Monday with more than 100 events statewide.

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Divided no more
Durango is looking at its aging recycling center as a renewable resource. Though a new facility once was under discussion, the city now is moving forward with a $3.2 million plan to expand, not replace, the recycling center located at 710 Tech Center Drive.

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Divided no more
Durango is looking at its aging recycling center as a renewable resource. Though a new facility once was under discussion, the city now is moving forward with a $3.2 million plan to expand, not replace, the recycling center located at 710 Tech Center Drive.

Read more on The Durango Herald

Green Is Keen Across NBCU’s Portfolio This Week
At NBC Universal, it’s time to really focus on the green. Not so much the kind that puts corporations in the black, but rather on ecological and environmental fronts.

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Xerox, Close the Loop Partner on Return, Recycling Program
Close the Loop and Xerox team up to encourage businesses to recycle used ink cartridges and other printer supplies.

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Wrap Funded Project Closes Electrical Recycling Loop

Indesit has become the first company to successfully incorporate recycled content derived from the UK waste stream within white goods on a large scale. The project delivers substantial savings in raw materials and costs.

Indesit, in collaboration with WRAP and Axion Recycling, spent many months investigating the potential to extract plastic materials from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), and recycle them for use in the manufacture of new products.

The project has enabled Indesit to introduce a new cover plate on two premium washing machine models – Hotpoint Aquarius and Ultima. The plate uses 100 per cent recycled content, sourced from UK WEEE, representing a step change in UK manufacturing. WRAP now plans to work with other companies to further explore the benefits of this innovative approach.

The material has been produced using shredded plastic waste recovered from domestic fridges, and made into a high grade polymer that has a similar weight to the virgin plastic it is replacing. As a result, the CO2 emissions, cumulative cost and raw material savings from this activity are significant.

The results of the project coincide with the launch of new research from WRAP, which reveals that many consumers would favour an electronic product containing recycled content at point of purchase, if price, functionality and reliability were equal to a substitute item. This collaboration project demonstrates the technical feasibility of closed-loop recycling in electronic products – and the economic and environmental benefits of the approach.

Peter Maddox, Head of Manufacturing at WRAP said:

“This groundbreaking project has demonstrated that closed-loop recycling in electrical equipment from UK WEEE is commercially viable on a large scale for the first time, with no negative effect on performance. We encourage other manufacturers to follow this example.

“Our recent research has also demonstrated that some consumers are willing to buy products that contain some recycled content over those that do not – further strengthening the business argument for this approach.”

Mike Birch, Environment Manager at Indesit Company, commented:

“Having successfully completed the trial, we now plan to roll out the innovation to a range of our washing machines and washer dryers that are produced each year. The cumulative cost and raw material savings will be significant. For us the improved price was an enabler to help deliver a project with environmental benefits – we felt it was the right thing to do.

“We are now considering how further environmental improvements and savings can be made by using recycled content within other components and parts, throughout our manufacturing operation.”

Companies that are interested in realising valuable business benefits by working with WRAP on similar projects should visit the website http://www.wrap.org.uk/manufacturing

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WRAP helps individuals, businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change.
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Established as a not-for-profit company in 2000, WRAP is backed by government funding from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Working in seven key areas (Construction, Retail, Manufacturing, Organics, Business Growth, Behavioural Change, and Local Authority Support), WRAP’s work focuses on market development and support to drive forward recycling and materials resource efficiency within these sectors, as well as wider communications and awareness activities including the multi-media national Recycle Now campaign for England.
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More information on all of WRAP’s programmes can be found on www.wrap.org.uk

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Naturally Iowa, Inc. and the British Embassy Define Green, Sustainable “Closed Loop Systems”

Eco-Friendly Practices to Enhance Hyatt Meeting Offerings
Hyatt Hotels & Resorts today announced the launch of Meet and Be Green, a new program that encourages guests and planners to make green choices for their meetings. In order to Meet and Be Green at Hyatt, planners and meeting attendees will pledge to take these ten steps to “go green” during their meeting:

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Sangre Chronicle > Red River > Red River takes steps to go green
RED RIVER — Town officials and businesses are in preliminary discussions about how to begin a recycling program and how to reduce waste in Red River. “This is motivated by the demand from the public telling us that this is what they want,” said Red River Mayor Linda Calhoun.

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Rams go old school to teach youngsters to be pros
ST. LOUIS — Thirty might be the new 20 for most of us, but it’s still an age of demarcation in the NFL.

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Trail given green light
Supporters of the Alps to Ocean cycleway, which has been given the green light, say it has the potential to be one of the greatest in the world.

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Naturally Iowa, Inc. and the British Embassy Define Green, Sustainable “Closed Loop Systems”
CLARINDA, Iowa — Naturally Iowa, Inc. announced today that Naturally Iowa was invited to showcase “Green Bottle Spring Water” to highlight the British Embassy’s commitment to environmental sustainability in Washington, D.C.

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