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Recycle Check, Please!
The Recycling Partnership Rolls Out New Dynamic Recycling Tech
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Did you know that 60% of consumers are confused about what and how to recycle? Well, we have a solution for you! The Recycling Partnership has just released a new and exciting tool to help alleviate some of the confusion that hits when it is time to recycle, meet Recycle Check. Recycle Check is a new platform from The Recycling Partnership that offers an interactive package-specific solution providing localized recycling information to consumers across the U.S. With Recycle Check, consumers can scan a QR code or click a link to get real-time package-specific recycling information in seconds. This tool simplifies the way product packages provide local recyclability information, utilizing The Partnership’s National Recycling Database, a state-of-the-art resource that centralizes recycling information from more than 9,000 U.S. communities covering 97% of the U.S. population.
Read more at The Recycling Partnership
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NC DEQ Advances Plastic Recycling In NC
Business Development Grants Boost Plastics Recycling
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The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NC DEQ) has provided business development grants totaling nearly $443,000 to 10 businesses in the last month. These grants that were awarded are going towards upgrading materials recovery facilities (MRFs), expanding capabilities at plastics recycling companies, and more. The three largest plastics recycling-related grants (all $60,000 each) were as follows: Clear Path Recycling, which recycles PET for use in carpet and other products, to purchase a storage silo; Direct Pack Recycling, to purchase a line to wash post-consumer PET for recycling into thermoforms; and Material Matters, to buy plastics handling equipment.
“Recycling businesses play an important role in the state’s circular economy, providing high-quality jobs while simultaneously supporting North Carolina’s environmental efforts,” said Elizabeth Biser, DEQ Secretary. “These grants fund sustainable projects that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of diversion efforts, preventing valuable materials from ending up in landfills.”
Read more at Resource Recycling
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SC Welcomes New PET Recycler
Verdeco is Moving Headquarters
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Greenville, South Carolina is going to be home to the new corporate headquarters of Verdeco, a producer of customized recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) solutions. Verdeco says its new Innovation Center of Excellence and rPET manufacturing facility in Greenville is set to open in the third quarter of this year. They say their new South Carolina location also will enhance their ability to solve some of its customers’ supply chain challenges.
According to Verdeco, it "specializes in providing sustainable rPET solutions to brands who care about the impact their products and materials have on our environment” and that its manufacturing facilities “transform premium PET flakes into eco-friendly rPET pellets that have unlimited material applications."
Read more at Recycling Today
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Bottoms Up, Fill Your Cup!
NC Wine Makers Introduce Paper Wine Bottles
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North Carolina winemakers and vineyard owners Patrick and Wendy McNabb are turning up the sustainable notch to 11. Carolina Heritage Vineyards and Winery in Elkin, NC are excited to announce the launch of their new Spring wines in fully recyclable paper bottles, partnered with a mission driven donation program. Carolina Heritage has committed to donate $1 for every bottle sold to local NC organizations that support veterans and service-related careers, environmental sustainability, and local community development.
Read more at The Tribune
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Green Energy Biofuel Makes a Splash
Facility Designs New Waste Water Treatment System
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South Carolina based Green Energy Biofuel (GEB), a processing facility where they recycle fats, oils, and grease into feedstock and biofuel, is at it again! As leaders in the composting world, GEB have now produced a system that treats the water from plant production from further use. This system has taken three years of hard work by the GEB team and is one of their own design.
Taylor Strickland, head of Industrial Sales and Marketing from GEB said, "We can now treat the waste water from the plant production and release it back into the waste water system without any heavy metal, chemicals, or solids. It’s important because it aids with our zero waste solutions. We can now create a low impact into the environment. There’s less hauling so it lowers the carbon footprint and then it even aids in the treatment process at the horse creek treatment facility, so they do even have to spend much time treating it."
Read more at WJBF
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Feed Me Foam's Mobile Densifier Hits the Road
Paul Allen is Making Recycling This Fluffy Stuff Easy & Fun
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Feed Me Foam began in 2022 by Paul Allen as a way to recycling foam when he began analyzing the difficulties in recycling Styrofoam, aka expanded polystyrene or EPS, in Western North Carolina. and the lack of resources in doing so. Using a small grant from the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources along with his personal funds, Paul purchased a truck and densifier to begin recycling the foam around the community.
EPS is a plastic product derived from petroleum not allowed in your home recycling bins.
Since EPS is made up of more than 90% air, the lightweight and bulky nature of the products mean the collection and transportation impacts of recycling EPS often outweigh the environmental benefits. That’s where Feed Me Foam comes in. Paul collects EPS and puts it into his mobile densifier to grind, melt, and compact into blocks. Then, he finds a buyer to introduce it back into the recycling market. “It doesn’t have to go to our landfills, but we have to find where to recycle EPS,” says Paul.
Read more at AVL Today
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You Down with EPP?
CRA Members Receive $10 off Registration Fee!
You already know that purchasing intentionally, whether to achieve resource conservation and financial savings, or in the pursuit of higher goals like Zero Waste and our desired Circular Economy, is of critical importance today for businesses, local governments, schools, and nonprofits. But both common and unique issues beset us as individuals in our roles within organizations.
Come to this Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Workshop where Marialyce Pedersen will deliver tailored and actionable guidance, coupled with a robust question-and-answer session, intended to enable participants to walk away well prepared to solve their trickiest EPP issues. NRC Affiliates receive a $10 discount; email CRA to request the discount code before you register!
Register for the Virtual Workshop
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CRA Committees & Councils Need You
Don't Forget to Sign Up Using Our Online Interest Form
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CRA has 7 committees and 5 councils that need your voice and help. Bonus, you get to make new friends, add some muscle to your resume, and be part of the magic. What are you waiting for? | |
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Membership Renewal Time is Here!
BOLO for your Renewal Email
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Be On the Look Out (BOLO) for your membership renewal in an email inbox near you! Your membership is vital to the Carolina Recycling Association and to the success of the recycling community as a whole. Be sure to renew your membership on time to take advantage of all of our great member benefits. Your benefits include: Discounts on CRA conference registration, annual professional headshot updates at the Conference, eligibility to run for our board of directors, the right to vote in annual elections and membership meetings, discounts for other events, full access to CRA’s membership directory, priority registration, members-only special activities, and more!
Have questions? Go to our membership information page today or contact us at staff@cra-recycle.org!
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June 5-7, 2023
Circularity
Seattle, WA
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June 12-13, 2023
Battery and Critical Metals Recycling Conference
Atlanta, GA
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June 21, 2023
Build Your Zero Waste Purchasing Powers Workshop
Virtual
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August 29 - September 1, 2023
2023 SWANA Region 6 Conference
Greenville, SC
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October 16-19, 2023
NC SWANA Fall Conference
Cherokee, NC
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June 5 @ 10:00 am
Sustainable Plastics Live
by PlasticsNews
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June 13 @ 1:00 pm
Making an Actionable Plan: Strategic Planning to Guide to Waste Reduction
by Busch Systems
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Please send all correspondence, membership payments, and event registration to:
Carolina Recycling Association
PO Box 1296
Greenville, SC 29602
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