A low percentage of the states regulated generators, transporters, and handlers and a high percentage regulated recyclers. In general, transfer stations and recycling centers were not regulated as solid waste facilities whereas MRFs were regulated as solid waste facilities. Exemptions were granted based...
Almost one-third of the surplus was recycled in 2005 when waste recovery was nearly 80 million tons, about 8 times higher than that of 25 years earlier. A thorough observation indicates that a great percentage of scrap in the US is not recycled during this time. For instance, out of 80 ...
According to a report from the National Association of PET Container Resources and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, the recycling rate for PET bottles in the country increased in 2005 for the second year in a row. But the 1.5 percentage point gain was miniscule compared with ...
Fig. 1. Percentage of participants who discarded their leftovers when presented with the different bins. Study 1 showed that participants become less willing to exert effort to avoid creating unnecessary food waste when they think that waste is being transformed into a useful product. In study 2 ...
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From 1978 to 1988, beverage containers accounted for a steadily decreasing percentage of the total weight of household garbage in the United States. The increasingly widespread practice of recycling aluminum and glass was responsible for most of this decline. However, although aluminum recycling was mo...
Meanwhile, a British report from 2008 found that you can collect roughly the same percentage of potentially recyclable materials from customers whether you use a single-stream system or one that separates paper goods from containers (so two recycling bags under the sink, not five). And that’s...
ACC said the estimate was calculated using curbside data and estimating what percentage retail bags were of in-store material collected by composite lumber manufacturer Trex Co. Inc. Based on the weight of grocery bags and estimates of the number of takeout grocery bags used annually in the ...
U.S. municipal solid waste generation: percentage of paper 1960-2014 Largest shippers of hazardous waste in the U.S. TopicsRecycling in EuropeRecycling in the United StatesPlastic waste in EuropeElectronic waste worldwideWaste generation worldwide ...
In the ferrous metals industry there are also many applications of external recycling.Scrap steelmakes up a significant percentage of the feed toelectric arcandbasic oxygenfurnaces. The scrap comes from a variety of manufacturing operations that use steel as a basic material and from discarded or ob...