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Reducing Wasted Food: How Packaging Can Help

Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar: Reducing Wasted Food: How Packaging Can Help Food accounts for the greatest percentage of materials going into our landfills (21% in 2012). A significant portion of wasted food is wholesome and edible. 133 billion pounds (31 percent of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels) […]

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Innovative Collaborations in the Hospitality Sector to Increase Food Recovery

Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar: Innovative Collaborations in the Hospitality Sector to Increase Food Recovery A study conducted for the Food Waste Reduction Alliance found that households account for 47 percent of wasted food, followed by restaurants at 37 percent, institutions at 11 percent; manufacturers 3 percent and retailers are responsible for 2 […]

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Webinar: Best Practices to Boost Plastic Film Recycling in Your Community

Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar: Let’s WRAP (Wrap Recycling Action Program) Best Practices to Boost Plastic Film Recycling in Your Community We’re all aware of the challenges when it comes to recycling plastic bags and plastic film (i.e. dry cleaning bags, bread bags, plastic film packaging around paper goods, drink bottles, and other […]

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Managing Wasted Food with Anaerobic Digestion: Incentives and Innovations

Managing Wasted Food with Anaerobic Digestion: Incentives and Innovations

Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar Produced by US EPA This session will benefit operators, utility management, engineering consultants, project developers, regulators and academics interested in the economic, regulatory, and technological advances incentivizing the anaerobic digestion (AD) of wasted food. You will hear about federal and state initiatives supporting the Anaerobic Digestion of wasted […]

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Medicine Collection Event Results – Operation Medicine Cabinet Fall 2016

Medicine Collection Event Results – Operation Medicine Cabinet Fall 2016

MEDICINE COLLECTION EVENT RESULTS – FALL 2016 Tallahassee, Florida—On Saturday, October 22nd, the Southern Waste Information eXchange, Inc. (SWIX), in partnership with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Costco’s, Florida Pharmacy Association, Florida Society of Health Systems Pharmacists, 94.9 TNT, FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, FAMU’s Institute of Public Health, Florida State […]

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Steve Russell

Speaker Steve Russell Strategic Materials, Inc. Speaker Bio: Steve Russell is the Director of Inbound Supply Quality for Strategic Materials, Inc., a national glass recycler and processor.  Currently based in St. Louis, Missouri, he regularly visits MRFs and SMI plants focusing on glass clean-up methods at the MRFs and the inbound inspection processes at the […]

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Patty Moore

  Speaker Patty Moore Moore & Associates Speaker Bio: Patty Moore is President of Moore Recycling Associates Inc. She began working in the plastic recycling field in 1983 at a mandatory municipal recycling facility in Wilton, NH. Ms. Moore is an internationally recognized authority on—and fierce advocate of—postconsumer plastic recycling. Abstract: Plastic prices have been trending downwards over the […]

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Ray Bilodeau

Industry/Municipal Recycling Markets Case Studies   Speaker Ray Bilodeau Orange County Utilities Department – Solid Waste Division    Speaker Bio: Ray holds a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts.  He started his professional career in 1965 with General Electric Company (GE) where his last position was a Manufacturing […]

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30 million tonnes wiped off world steel output

30 million tonnes wiped off world steel output

Source: recyclinginternational.com Global:  Capacity utilisation in the global crude steelmaking sector was short of 70% in September – the third consecutive month spent below this threshold. The utilisation rate of 69.3% was four percentage points below that of the same month last year but 1.3 percentage points ahead of that for August 2015. Meanwhile, world crude […]

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Chris Snow

Organics Recycling – How’s Florida Doing Developing and Growing Markets for this Large Fraction of Total Waste Stream Material? Speaker Chris Snow Consolidated Resource Recovery, Inc.   Speaker Bio: Chris Snow is the Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Consolidated Resource Recovery (CRR). CRR is a leader in yard and wood waste recycling in the State […]

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