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Recycling Today

CAA submits revised California EPR program plan

The producer responsibility organization says its updated plan reflects public input, outlines investments to increase recycling and reuse and marks a significant milestone toward S.B. 54 implementation.

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Metal recycling under pressure as EU rules threaten key scrap metal export outlets
Waste Management World

Metal recycling under pressure as EU rules threaten key scrap metal export outlets

Europe's metal recycling sector could lose access to key scrap metal export markets under the EU's revised Waste Shipment Regulation, while softer consumption in China and mounting logistical pressures add to an uncertain outlook, according to the October 2026 BIR World Mirror on Ferrous Metals.

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Tenfold in 15 minutes: flexible aeration and a new energy supply at Friedrichshafen's waste water treatment plant
Waste Management World

Tenfold in 15 minutes: flexible aeration and a new energy supply at Friedrichshafen's waste water treatment plant

When heavy rain hits Lake Constance, the volume of sewage reaching Friedrichshafen's sewage treatment plant can rise tenfold in a quarter of an hour. Coping with such surges of waste water calls for aeration that can be turned up and down across a very wide range. The city has spent more than two decades building its biological treatment around AEROSTRIP®…

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Small things, big difference
Waste Management World

Small things, big difference

At UNTHA, the development floor is open to customers, salespeople and service technicians – an approach that has produced a patent, a raft of practical improvements and an award-winning shredder.

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Advanced sorting turns textile waste into spinning-grade fibre in Italy
Waste Management World

Advanced sorting turns textile waste into spinning-grade fibre in Italy

Italy now has its first plant to cover every treatment phase of textile recycling. In San Pietro Mosezzo, IGERS and technology partner STADLER have combined advanced sorting with mechanical regeneration to turn post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste into fibre fit for spinning – a concrete step towards textile circularity.

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Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests
The Guardian - Environment

Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests

Team works to restore the sunflower sea star as 95% of these key underwater ecosystems have been decimated along the Pacific coast in past decade Off the coast of Monterey, California , a team of researchers is gearing up for its first dive of the day into the cold and choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean. On the back deck of the boat, Ashley Kidd, a…

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‘It’s not glamorous’: the volunteers counting flushed wet wipes on the banks of the Thames
The Guardian - Environment

‘It’s not glamorous’: the volunteers counting flushed wet wipes on the banks of the Thames

A Thames21 charity citizen science project helps track plastic pollution in the capital’s river On a pale-blue Sunday morning on the foreshore of the River Thames, 40 people are searching for what others have tried to lose. Dotted across a 250-metre stretch under Hammersmith Bridge, they are combing through layers of silt, seashells and dirty driftwood to…

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