LOS ANGELES, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The plastic recycling rate in the United States fell to between 5 percent and 6 percent in 2021, according to a new study. The report, released by environmental groups The Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics on Wednesday, said the "paltry" recycling rate...
The recycling rate of paper and paperboard in the United States stood at nearly 67 percent in 2023. Paper recycling in the North American country has improved significantly over the past three decades, and now accounts for the largest share of municipal solid waste recycled. ...
To address this situation, the definitions and calculation methods of four groups of indicators are specified for the United States: (1) indicators used to measure recycling efficiencies of old aluminum scrap at the end﹐f﹍ife (EOL) stage, including EOL collection rate (CR), EOL processing ...
This is filling over 2,000 landfills around the country. Space is going to run out. The EPA estimates that 75% of the waste stream in the U.S. could be recycled. Unfortunately, recycling rates in the United States have never risen above 35%, the recycling rate recorded in 2017. In ...
its 2021 goalwith a recycling rate of 27.9% and has further improved through the first half of 2022 with a rate of 32.4%, all while transforming 76.4% of all the carpet collected in California into new, useful products. This is especially impressive considering the paltry 5% national average...
In the United States, the recycling rate could be less than 6%, according to a 2022reportby the environmental groups Beyond Plastics and The Last Beach Cleanup. Kara Pochiro, a spokesperson for the Association of Plastic Recyclers, a trade group representing the recycling industry, said “recycli...
Constellium NV is forging ahead with its goal to increase the usedbeverage can (UBC) recycling rate in the USA despite a steep nationalfalloff in 2016.Total UBC recycling rates in USA slipped for the second consecutiveyear in 2016, falling to 49.4% from 54.5% in 2015, the lowest levelsince...
Specifically, in the European Union, the total recycling rate of plastics is only 34.6 %, with 42 % of the plastics being incinerated in waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities and 23.4 % being sent to landfills (Plasticseurope, 2021). In the United States, the recycling rate of PET bottles is...
Tweet Environmentalists, industry and states are split over how EPA should measure the recycling rate as the United States attempts to reach a 50 percent rate by 2030, with differences among environmentalists and the chemical industry over whether to include chemical recycling, incineration and othe...
10、entury?Recycling is a nationwide, grassroots effort.Curbside recycling collection programs reach the majority of the American population. Diversion rate resulting from recycling and composting keeps increasing.Recycling boxes 3 feet long stacked end to end will reach the moon in 2005.Part 1 Introd...