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USDA Provides Tips on Reducing Thanksgiving Food Waste
2020-11-23 13:12:00| Waste Age
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted tips that explain how families can reduce food waste this Thanksgiving holiday. According to the agency, a family of four wastes $1,500 to uneaten food thats about 1,160 pounds of food each
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Man Arrested for Operating Rogue Landfill in Spain
2020-11-23 13:00:00| Waste Age
A resident of Fuente Alamo de Murcia in Southern Spain is under heat for operating a rogue landfill for construction and demolition waste. The Civil Guard posted surveillance at the man's 15,000 sq. meter plot of land and discovered
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Carbios Produces Clear Plastic Bottles from Recycled Textile Waste
2020-11-23 12:53:00| Waste Age
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France-- CARBIOS (Paris:ALCRB) (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a company pioneering new enzymatic solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, today announced it has successfully produced the first bottl
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The Ups & Downs of Recycling
2020-11-23 08:00:00| Waste Age
The last few years, recycling has been one longer roller coaster ride consisting of steep drops, sharp turns, and dizzying speeds - setting hearts racing around blind turns and leaving even the most seasoned professional breathless. Our speakers will
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Episode 85: The Ups & Downs of Recycling
2020-11-23 08:00:00| Waste Age
The last few years, recycling has been one longer roller coaster ride consisting of steep drops, sharp turns, and dizzying speeds - setting hearts racing around blind turns and leaving even the most seasoned professional breathless. Our speakers will
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Anchorage Solid Waste Services to Build Transfer Station Thats Its Largest Project to Date
2020-11-23 07:00:00| Waste Age
Anchorage, Alaska is building a $120 million transfer station and upgrading its existing one, which is the largest project in the history of its Solid Waste Services department. It will extend the life of the municipalitys landfill by 20 years. Sla
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Anti-Waste Pop-Up Created in LA to Combat Food Waste
2020-11-23 01:36:00| Waste Age
Food waste is an enormous problem. Approximately 40 percent of all food produced goes uneaten every year. Food suppliers and restaurants are a big part of the problem. Choco, an app that provides free order management technology to restaurants and f
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How QAlert Technology Enables Communication Between Key Players in the Municipal Collection Process
2020-11-20 14:47:00| Waste Age
Fiber, wireless, broadband, Wi-Fi, 5G. Technology has rapidly evolved since the advent of the Internet of Things in 1999, and it is increasingly essential to completing everyday tasks for the world's 7.8 billion people. Everything is connected, yet
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Mushroom Cultivation Produces Three Times as Much Waste
2020-11-20 13:12:00| Waste Age
European researchers are looking for ways to reuse the significant amount of waste produced from mushroom cultivation. For every one kilogram of mushrooms that is harvested, three times the amount of waste is produced. The substrate after product is
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Sodastream Teams Up with Snoop Dogg for Holiday Campaign About the Impact of Plastic Waste
2020-11-20 12:58:00| Waste Age
SodaStream, the leading sparkling water brand*, today unveiled its 2020 holiday campaign focused on "enjoying the small meaningful things." The biggest SodaStream global campaign to date features hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg encouraging people to focus
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