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Features the Fox Valley Glass Aggregate Plant of Minergy Corp. which pioneered technologies to recycle paper sludge into sealable product with minimal waste. Production capacity of the plant based in Wisconsin; Key to sustaining profitable operations; Problems encountered at the facility.

Focuses on the recycling of paper mill sludge in the United States. National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement Inc.'s survey of solid waste management practices in the paper industry; Methods used to manage paper mill sludge; By-products of recycled paper mill sludge; Composting alternative for paper mill sludge. INSET: Characterization of paper mill sludge..

Discusses the growth in the American pulp and paper industry with emphasis on the contribution of paper recovery and reuse. Report from the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA); Percentage annual rate growth of the industry; Recycling of 80 percent of recovered paper; Recovery-reuse goal of AF&PA in six years from 1993.

Reports on the plan to build a paper recycling plant in Staten Island, New York City. Economic and environmental benefits of the paper plant; Site-specific labor agreements with the unions; No strike pledge with Building & Construction Trades Council of Colorado on other sites.

The United States-based paper manufacturer and supplier, Office Depot reported that sales of recycled paper are increasing indicating corporate commitment to promoting environmentally-sensitive products and a testament to the growing public and corporate adoption of their quality recycled paper. The company also reported that nearly two of every three sheets of paper sold in the United States by Office Depot in 2004 contained recycled content. The company also provided statistics on the number of trees conserved, reduction in energy consumption, emission reductions, elimination of solid wastes and wastewater.

This article focuses on the utilization of recycled paper by Advertising Age effective with its June 28, 1993 issue. The 40-pound recycled paper stock provides readers and advertisers with the same, previous high-quality production standards and meets current industry and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requirements for recycled paper. Though the paper will cost more to buy and mail, Advertising Age publisher Ed Erhardt said the investment will pay off in the long run. The move coincides with an Advertising Age-sponsored environmental conference on June 30, 1993 at the United Nations. Speakers at the conference, on Business & the Environment: Partnerships for Profit & sustainability, include executives from Procter & Gamble Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Coca-Cola Co.

Highlights the plan of Franklin Township, Pennsylvania's materials recovery facility (MRF) to boost its paper output. Installation of conveyor sorting line for newspaper, corrugated and office paper.

Part I. Reports on the analysis of recycling food/soiled paper residuals in residential and commercial streams in Seattle, Washington. Offer of insights on operating principles, economics and markets; Evaluation of technologies; Findings of the anaerobic digestion study.

Reports on the approval of the United States Food and Drug Administration for Starbucks Coffee Co. to use recycled content specifically for hot beverage cups. Completion of tests on recycled paper fiber; Production of paper for conversion into cups.

Focuses on the establishment of three special recycling awards to support the campaign of the paper industry to recover 55 percent of all paper consumed in the U.S. Changing of the name of the Recognizing Individual award to Ed Hurley Memorial Paper Recycling Award; Eligibility guidelines of communities and companies for the Recognizing Committee and Recognizing Business awards.

Reports on the establishment of recycling awards to support recovery campaigns of the paper industry in the U.S. Recognition for the contribution of Ed Hurley to the industry; Requirements for award candidates; Contact information.

Reports on setbacks of the Bronx Community Paper Company, a paper mill recycling project in New York City. Conflicts based on personalities, gender, race, ego, traffic and regulatory procedure; Lawsuit filed by a dissident local group under the New York Environmental Quality Review Act; Pullout of the company's subsidiary.

Reports on the implementation of a paper recycling program at several post offices and mail processing plants within the Postal Service Atlanta District in Atlanta, Georgia. Projected recovery volumes; Reduction of waste disposal costs; Generation of revenue from the initiative.

Reports that the National Office Paper Recycling Project has launched a campaign called "Recycling at Work," targeted at office workers in Chicago, Illinois.

This article reports that many municipal solid waste composting projects are being launched in the U.S. The projects are based on residential separation of the compostable stream from recyclables and trash. One prevailing trend is to add source separated residential organics to existing yard trimmings collection programs. Alameda County, across the bay from San Francisco, California, has started a residential source separation program over the past few years. Recycling and composting programs in the county are supervised by Stop- waste.org. About $2.3 million have been spent on the purchase and distribution of kitchen containers for food scraps and public education. Three composting facilities in this region receive the household organics. These include the BFI Recyclery on Newby Island in San Jose, California, Grover Landscape Services, and Z-Best Composting. The cities of Oakland and Fremont in California are the two largest jurisdictions offering the program. Residents are asked to wrap food scraps in newspaper or place them in a paper bag.

Presents the environmentally benign process for the pulp and paper industry in the United States. Conversion of toxic waste from Kraft pulp mills into a valuable formaldehyde; Commercial practice of methanol oxidation to formaldehyde; Potential of the technology to clean the air while simultaneously giving paper mills a profitable commodity product.

Defends the benefits of recycling in the United States. Arguments of people who oppose recycling; Comparison of the views of United States and Europe on energy consumption; Benefit of recycling paper.

Outlines the plans of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the pulp and paper manufacturers to fund the construction of technology projects that turn factory waste into energy. Estimated value of the funds; Selection of the proposed technologies; Benefits of the technology.

Reports on the installation of small-scale in-vessel recycling systems for food and paper residuals in two sites in New York, N.Y. Installation of a unit designed by Green Mountain Technologies in a hospital in Queens; Installation of a unit designed by Wright Environmental at the City College in Manhattan; Capacity of the units.

Looks into the factors for the increase in Portland, Oregon's recycling rate. Includes the improvements in paper recovery; Strong market for recycled products; Increase in recycling capacity; Increase in supply of recyclable materials from yard trimmings.

Discusses a technology using application of a direct-current electric field in removing ink from paper fibers for recycling. Patented technology from Georgia Institute of Technology; Process.

Reports how the Schuylkill Printing Plant, part of Pennsylvania's Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. recycles everything it can including forklift batteries. Amount the company is seeing in energy savings created by its recycling; Details of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Lights program.

Reports on the growth in the recycling program of Metuchen, New Jersey as of April 1997. Increase in recycling revenue; Percentage of the increase in recycling rate; Marketing success for the recycling program; Long-term agreements for recycled waste contracts.

Reports on a 40-acre parcel on Staten Island, New York City as the site of a new linerboard mill utilizing recycled feedstock. Australian firm Pratt Industries' plan to build the facility in late 1995; Phases of the project.

This article focuses on waste reduction issues for concerned librarians in the U.S. Despite the automation and modernization of library services, paper consumption in libraries continues to grow in the country. Research for an article to publicize recycling in libraries revealed benefits that went beyond saving resources, improving the environment, and earning money. Now garbage has become big business and governments at all levels are legislating mandatory recycling in the country. From the comments on the recycling surveys, the typical law library adventure into recycling progressed. Recycling on personal money, time, and energy at first, the person gradually persuaded the management to institutionalize the process. Eventually, the administrative or legislative action on local to state levels helped the process. At the University of San Diego, at the urging of the Conservation Club and after all the Earth Day publicity, a campuswide pickup was started. Sharply increasing costs of waste removal were part of the motivation. In library recycling, the buying of recycled paper is a critical reuse strategy because it closes the loop on the paper waste stream in the country having still a discrepancy in what the term recycled paper truly means.

The article focuses on issues concerning plastic bag policy in the U.S. It discusses the efforts of the local and state governments to manage single use plastic bag waste, using bans, fees, improved recycling, and compostable bags as several nongovernmental organizations and environmental activists are pressuring the government in reducing plastic bag consumption.

The article focuses on the Zero Waste Facility Certification program of the U.S. Zero Waste Business Council (USZWBC) which promotes diversion from waste to energy through organic recycling. It highlights the goals of the government including to achieve zero waste, reduce greenhouse gas emission and provide renewable energy sources. It also cites several recyclable materials which include cardboards, aluminum and wood pallets.

The article overviews several companies which manufacture Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)-certified foodservice and bags products in U.S. and Canada. It provides profiles of companies producing compostable products, and examines how their products fit to the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and sustainable packaging practices. These companies include Coca-Cola Co., Wal-Mart Canada Corp. and International Paper Co.

The article talks about the source separated, household organics collection programs in some of the municipalities and counties in the U.S. Residents of Alameda County, California are offered to put food waste and food-soiled paper and corrugated in their 96-gallon green waste carts. San Francisco, California's Fantastic Three residential recycling and composting program is considered the most comprehensive residential organics collection program in the county. The programs implemented in the counties of Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington are discussed.

Reports that the city of San Jose in California hopes to build on the success of its residential yard trimmings recycling program by composting food residuals and nonrecyclable paper. Vermicomposting project at the University of California's Bay Area Research and Extension Center; Role of Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. in the project; Permits required for the recycling program. INSETS: VERMICOMPOSTING PILOT;COMPOST PRODUCT ANALYSIS.

Presents news briefs on biological recycling in the United States (US). Celebration of the 1999 America Recycles Day; Recycling of coffee grounds and tea leaves by Peet's Coffee and Tea and Starbucks; Economic aspects of renewable biodiesel fuels in the US; Presentation of the American Forest and and Paper Association's `National Wood Recycling Directory.'

Reports on materials recovery facilities in the United States with capabilities of sorting mixed streams. Allowing of single stream setouts that commingle all recyclables in one container; Emergence of residential mixed paper programs, collection systems and mixed waste processing facilities; Pros and cons of single stream recycling.

Part II. Presents the results of `Biocycle' magazine's `State of Garbage in America' survey which focuses on the states' involvement in recycling and waste reduction efforts. States that have met their recycling and/or waste reduction goals; State legislative measures that address recycling and waste reduction; Most commonly banned materials; States that funded recycling grant programs; Total amount of paper recycled per state.

Describes a state-owned materials recovery facility in Rhode Island. Combination of high-tech automation with manual handling; Picking out contaminants; Paper processing; Types of materials Rhode Island municipalities must collect; Concentration of current programs on basic curbside materials; Economics of the Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corp.

Reports on the curbside recycling program in the District of Columbia. Launching of program as a nationwide experiment; Maturation of the project into the collection for residential materials; Markets for 1995 illustrated by newspaper, by far the biggest collected by weight; Collection trends; Mixed paper issues; Use of compaction; Cutting of start-up costs; Truck-based collection. INSETS: Scavenging becomes an issue.;Glass: Getting no respect?..

The article discusses regarding the participation of San Diego, California's hotels in the city's commercial food waste composting program. Topics discussed include the methodology of waste collection from the state's hotels and its composting at Miramar Greenery, composting facility, the waste accepted in the program such as food scraps, coffee grounds, and parchment paper and the requirement of the participation that businesses must be in compliance with the recycling ordinance of San Diego.

The article reports on the financial assistance given to four Pennsylvania companies to increase their use of recycled materials. It is stated that the grants are given to businesses that manufacture a product or reuse it with a recyclable material. It notes grants received by Team Ten LLC to have bleaching systems and the Chambersburg Waste Paper Co. Inc. to purchase a fiber shredder. It also mentions the other grantees, which will increase their use of postconsumer recycled plastic.

The article focuses on the effort of the Burgerville restaurant chain owned by The Holland Inc. to adopt green initiatives in the U.S. Currently, the restaurant chain is using wind-powered electricity and is producing biodiesel from used cooking oil. As part of its green initiative, it plans to reduce its waste by implementing recycling and composting. The chain's food waste and soiled paper and packaging from the kitchen were separated into a composting container. Moreover, all containers like bottles and cans were recycled.

The article offers information about the Zero Waste goal program adopted by several states in the U.S. Several cities and towns have embraced a recycling collection program wherein it weekly collects household organics including soiled paper and food residuals. Provinces in Atlantic Canada have adopted the three-stream sort system wherein garbages are separated accordingly. In New Jersey, the residents are provided with aerated carts for curbside yard trimmings collection. Commercial and institutional generators which participated in food residual recycling programs prefer to use wheeled containers because it is easy to move heavy organics from one point to another.

The article highlights trends and developments in green packaging and marketing in the United States citing the strategies of beverage companies, Coca-Cola Co. and Pepsi-Cola Co. Both companies announced the separate development of ways to use recycled plastic in a food container. However, there are speculations that food may contaminate the plastic to be reused. Other industries that will use green packaging include fast food, cosmetics and toiletries and the paper products industry.

Focuses on the US Postal Service's recycling program for undeliverable bulk business mail and paper discards. Creation of the National Task Force on Undeliverable Bulk Business Mail Recycling; Potential revenue from the sale of undeliverable mail; Launching of recycling programs for Undeliverable Bulk Business Mail in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The article offers a look at the efforts of publishers in the U.S. to address the issue of global warming through using recycled paper. In 2006, Random committed to print 30 percent of its titles on recycled papers. Random is said to be among the most advanced publishers in terms of developing a comprehensive environmental plan. Other publishers that implement recycled paper printing program include Scholastic and McGraw-Hill.

The article reports on the launching of the new pilot program by International Paper Co., the National Park Foundation and the National Recycling Coalition in the U.S. It was launched in October 2007 to evaluate ways to limit the impact of food service products in the country. The program was funded by a donation from International Paper Co. which will begin in the summer of 2008 that aimed to move toward "Zero Waste" across the park system. Furthermore, International Paper Co. will also produce a customized cup for use by parks, concessionaires, and others as part of the agreement with the National Park Foundation. While the National Recycling Coalition will evaluate food service waste management practices and will educate to reduce waste in the parks.

What was accomplished when almost half the states in the U.S. banned leaves, grass clippings and limbs from being landfilled can work similar miracles for banana peels, egg shells, soiled paper and other commercial organics. This article cites several developments related to composting. It relates the approval of an ordinance in Seattle, Washington, D.C. which bans disposal of recyclable paper, cardboard and bottles set out by residents. It also cites the move by a small town in Minnesota to offer food residuals recycling to residents.

The article presents a paper that describes the development of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Decontamination For Decommissioning, electrochemical ion eXchange (DFDX) process in the U.S. It was mentioned that the EPRI DFDX process is an efficient and economic decontamination method for preparing materials for recycle including the processing of the radioactive solution using the electrochemical ion exchange. The EPRI DFDX process was developed to overcome the disadvantage.

The article focuses on a series of environmental initiatives established by Okabashi Brands Inc. at its corporate and manufacturing facility for energy and resource conservation in the U.S. According to president and CEO Bahman Irvani, the company was committed on providing a highest environmental standards in shoes and materials distribution. The several initiatives include recycling of raw materials, reducing wastes by donating surplus inventories and encouraging its office employees to reuse office paper and plastics.

Reports on developments related to environmental engineering in the U.S. Success of the Office Depot in reducing solid waste generation in 2004 by using 35 percent recycled-content paper in its high-speed copy machines; Schedule of the international conference on deconstruction and building materials reuse; Bill passed by the U.S. Senate which contains important biodiesel provisions.

Reports on the approval of an ordinance by the Seattle City Council that bans the disposal of recyclable paper, cardboard and yard trimmings in garbage in Washington. Percentage decrease in commercial sector recycling; Details on the program of educational outreach conducted by the council for both businesses and residents regarding the new recycling requirements; Actual penalties for violators of the ordinance.

Focuses on the selection of Genahol Inc. by the Solid Waste Authority to build a sanitary landfill in Franklin County, Ohio. Conversion of liquid and solid fractions of waste stream into ethanol; Use of dilute acid hydrolysis method in converting cellulose in paper to sugar; Capacity of the facility.

Reports the increase in the recycling activities of retailers at SeaTac Mall in Tacoma, Washington. List of paper items recycled by the mall; Selection of Corporate Recycling Services (CRS) to serve as consultant of the store; Clients of CRS.