From the Sustainability Dictionary: The conversion of material from one or more products into a new product, involving a change in the inherent properties of the material itself (often a degradation in quality). For example, recycling plastic bottles into plastic drainage pipes. Often called downcycling or reprocessing.
Health care is the second largest contributor to waste production in the United States. (The food industry holds the dubious distinction of being the first largest contributor.) So, it’s significant that more than 25 percent of U.S. hospitals now reprocess medical devices as a way to decrease waste –and cut costs. But, does the phrase [...]
Brazil’s quickly become a world-leading trailblazer when it comes to recycling all the packaging used in the agrochemical industry. Now, the country plans to make its recycling program self-sufficient, the main thrust of which is to manufacture value-added recycled packaging that comes with an international certification.
Frito-Lay has announced plans to partner with ‘Upcycler’ Terracycle to give their chip bags a second life. Frito, which on Earth Day of 2008 unveiled a solar thermal generation facility at their manufacturing plant in Modesto, CA, with the capacity to power that entire plant, is making public its desire to reduce the environmental footprint [...]
With landfills across the nation bursting at the seams, there are signs of renewed interest in burning solid wastes. Using advanced gasfication methods, companies can now produce energy from a host of materials with virtually no emissions. And while this is certainly better than just dumping trash in a landfill, is it really better than [...]
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