SUPPLIER NEWS

• ExxonMobil To Build Its First Large-Scale Plastic Waste Advanced Recycling Facility

  ExxonMobil plans to build its first, large-scale plastic waste advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, and is expected to start operations by year-end 2022. By recycling plastic waste back into raw materials that can be used to make plastic and other valuable products, the technology could help address the challenge of plastic waste in the environment

• TOMRA’s Circular Economy Conference: Collaboration To 'Close The Loop On Plastics'

  According to calculations by the World Bank, approximately two-thirds of household waste is still incinerated or landfilled. In its 4th global conference, industry leaders joined TOMRA, the Norwegian specialist for waste collection, sorting and recycling, to continue to set the course for sorting and recycling significantly more plastic from household waste in the future

• A Concrete Solution

  A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry. Calcium carbonate concrete is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the air or industrial exhaust gases

• Making Surgical Instruments From Medical Waste

  In Dutch hospitals, over a million kilos of blue ‘wrapping paper’ is used each year to keep medical instruments sterile. After they have been used, they create an enormous mountain of waste

• City Pf Miami Partners With Compology To Become First U.S. City To Meter Waste

  Today, the City of Miami announced the launch of a new partnership with Compology, the nation's leading sustainable waste metering company, to help the City better manage its waste