Domino's is launching a new feature on recycling.dominos.com that customers can use to look up their zip code for their neighborhood's status on pizza box recycling.
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Domino's® Delivering Neighborhood Recycling Information to Customers
In a move aimed at reducing huge amounts of plastic litter in the ocean and on land, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material.
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California passes first-in-nation plastics recycling law
Researchers have shown how industries could work together to recycle cigarette butts into bricks, in a step-by-step implementation plan for saving energy and solving a global littering problem.
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How cigarette butts can be recycled into bricks: A step-by-step plan
A group of Modesto teenagers used COVID-19 downtime to build a tool that might end up on the International Space Station.
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Modesto High School Students Build Recycling Tool That Could Be Sent To Outer Space
Lawmakers fail to pass state plastic-waste reduction bill but activists vow to continue the fight.
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Lawmakers fail to pass state plastic-waste reduction bill
Recycled cardboard is worth its weight in "beige gold," with a ton of it going for roughly $108. When cardboard is illegally sold, "legitimate recycling firms, and the city and other local authorities who take a cut from their sales, are missing out on tens of millions," according to the BBC.
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'Beige gold': Criminals are making a fortune by illegally recycling cardboard, and it's making a huge dent in the pockets of cities and local authorities | Markets Insider
The coronavirus outbreak has indelibly imprinted itself on life in Los Angeles — down to the composition of trash washing up on its beaches.
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How the coronavirus is changing L.A. County's waste stream
A new report assessing three U.S. beverage packaging types – aluminum cans, glass bottles and plastic PET bottles – finds aluminum cans have the highest circular performance.
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Aluminum Cans Show Highest Circular Performance of U.S. Beverage Packages, New Analysis Finds - Waste Advantage Magazine
The fate of cardboard boxes in the US rests in the hands of consumers more than it ever has been before. Luckily, Certified Waste Solutions is here to help!
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Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers
In an effort to quantify the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on waste and recycling professionals in the U.S., Waste Today magazine sent out a survey to industry participants beginning March 24.
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'Waste Today' survey shows widespread industry impact of COVID-19
Study says use of compost as alternative daily cover in landfills can be more environmentally advantageous than its use as a soil amendment.
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Study shows benefits of compost used as landfill cover
A new rule will take effect in California on January 1, 2021 that will allow generators of decommissioned solar panels (photovoltaic or PV modules) to manage them more economically as universal waste as opposed to hazardous waste under current California law.
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California Rule Facilitating the Recycling of Solar Panels Takes Effect January 1, 2021 - Waste Advantage Magazine
In the United States, more than 95% of the packages shipped to the country’s 200 million online shoppers are sent in containerboard – cardboard and corrugated containers. The use of cardboard and other packaging materials is expected to increase in the coming years as online sales continue to grow
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Shopping Online this Holiday Season? Recycle those Cardboard Boxes, Expert Says - Waste Advantage Magazine
The waste includes dinner scraps and spoiled fruit and vegetables from commercial businesses including grocery stores and restaurants.
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Los Angeles County recycling food waste into renewable vehicle fuel