The national trade association of the forest, paper, and wood products industry has said that approximately fifty six per cent of paper used up in the United States underwent recycling in 2007, meeting an industry target five years before the scheduled time. This was disclosed during the industry’s 131st Yearly Paper Week conference. While announcing the accomplishment, the American Forest and Paper Association said it was setting a new target of recycling sixty per cent of all paper by the year 2012. Between 1990 and 2007 the amount of paper that underwent recycling rose by more than twenty five million tons. This ... Full Story

A new recycling bring centre will be set up at the Prince William Parade car park. This is despite the proposal being met with a lot of opposition from the residents. Sixteen recycling bins for dry recyclables such as paper, glass, drink cartons, plastic and cans will be positioned in the eastern car park adjacent to the waste water treatment plant. Members of Eastbourne Borough Council's planning committee approved the plan at a meeting held recently despite concerns raised by residents. The residents of the area are worried that the new recycling bring site will lead to antisocial behaviour and noise. They ... Full Story

A report from the Waste and Resources Action Programme says that in the previous three years, the Shotton Newsprint Mill has used ten per cent more recovered paper from the municipal waste stream than was envisaged. Waste and Resources Action Programme granted seventeen million pounds in 2004 towards UPM Kymmene's one hundred and twenty million pound project to transform the Shotton Newsprint Mill into one that uses recycled material entirely. Transformation of the Shotton Newsprint Mill involved three stages. Initially technology was upgraded in the oldest recycled fibre plant processing lines and these became operational in the June of 2003. Secondly a new ... Full Story

Exeter's recycling rate has skyrocketed - and cleansing chiefs think it is thanks to the Echo's Green Shoppers campaign. It has been revealed that in the four months up to the end of December last year, the city's recycling rate hit an all time high of 38.18 per cent. This places the city beyond its target for not just next year, but the year after. Not only has the recycling rate for garden waste and dry recyclables such as paper and plastic gone up dramatically, but the amount of other household waste being collected has dropped exponentially. In the last ... Full Story

Recycling collections will be launched at thousands of flats and rural homes around Rugby. Up to 3,000 extra red box collections will be delivered in time for the new collections in February. The boxes will also be distributed to sheltered housing complexes, where mini-recycling centres maybe set up. The boxes will take glass, cans, newspapers and magazines. - Councillor Heather Timms, Portfolio Holder for Sustainable Environment, commented: "Even more residents will be bale to recycle a large percentage of their waste household items from the comfort of their own homes. She encouraged everyone to take part in this major new effort, and ... Full Story

A brilliant new addition to recycling is now available throughout West Lindsey. It is now possible to recycle your paper-based drinks and liquid food cartons, such as those made by Tetra Pak, at various points within the district. Carton collection banks can be found at: The Talbot Inn Car Park, High Street, Caistor John Street Car Park, Market Rasen Tesco, Gainsborough Rear of The Co-op, The Green, Nettleham Household Waste Recycling Centre, Summergangs Lane, Lea Road, Gainsborough People wishing to use the recycling points should wash and squash the cartons before recycling them. Please do not throw anything else in the carton recycling bin which may contaminate the ... Full Story

The free evening newspaper publishers will begin recycling discarded newspapers this week after coming to an agreement with Westminster city council. Westminster waste supervisors had threatened to ban the free newspapers in certain parts of the West End because so many were ending up on the sidewalks. Associated Newspapers and NI Free Newspapers agreed to pay for 70 recycling bins which they will maintain. Associated Newspapers publishes the London Lite, while NI Free Newspapers publishes TheLondonPaper. The containers will be sprinkled through 56 sites across the West End and are in addition to the 146 newspaper recycling bins supplied and ... Full Story

Despite increased export prices, the level of recovered paper being sent from Europe to the Far East has remained stable, stated the latest market report from the Bureau of International Recycling. BIR paper division president Ranjit Baxi of J&H Sales International, a firm based in London, noted that there had been a “major reduction” in the number of exports from Europe during the first two weeks of October 2007. This was a result of freight charges jumping by as much as $950 for a 40-foot container. However, Mr Baxi confirmed that after the initial shock, European paper merchants and Asian mills ... Full Story

Cotswolds, UK residents are setting record highs for recycling card and cardboard over the Christmas and New Year period. Eight large cardboard recycling containers across the Cotswolds were at very high levels, and one of them, at Kingmeadow Tesco, Cirencester, was already full again within two hours of being emptied last Friday. "We have been overwhelmed by the success of our cardboard recycling during 2007," said Cotswold District Council's environmental services director Ralph Young. "During the year, we increased the number of cardboard banks from two to eight and have seen the amount of cardboard being recycled in the district increase from around ... Full Story

Paul Haughey is on a mission to recycle your unwanted books, save them from the landfill, and find people who would appreciate them. He runs Books for the Plant, a volunteer grop in Kansas City, KS that recycles books. “We rescue books from the landfill and get them into the hands of needy people,” stated Paul Haughey of Kansas City, founder of the volunteer organization. Books for the Planet grew out of a textbook exchange that Haughey initiated as a graduate student at the University of Kansas. The textbook exchange became a book distribution business called Quest Living Books. However, the ... Full Story

Cochise County’s Telephone Book Recycling Tracking Program begins Monday, December 31st and will continue through Monday, February 18th. “Several individual city programs have been very successful in recent years,” commented Mr. Marty Haverty, Solid Waste Management Director for Cochise County. “Sierra Vista’s program has been particularly successful in developing a model program for recycling telephone books and it’s time for the County to move forward and encourage all residents to pitch in by pitching their old phone books into recycling and save crucial landfill space.” Haverty believes that by tracking one item the County can gauge the interest behind recycling. This ... Full Story

The Woodlands Trust and Waste Aware Scotland will make recycling bins available for Edinburgh residents at a number of area retailers including TX Maxx, WH Smiths, Marks & Spencer and Tesco superstores from the beginning of January. Three Christmas tree frames will be introduced at bus stops nears the Marks and Spencer store on Princes Street. The trees will be installed shortly after Hogmanay, and will begin as empty frames with bare branches. As the collection progresses, they will be gradually filled with all the holiday cheer of Christmas cards from the past holiday season. A spokeswoman from the Woodland ... Full Story