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Aduro Clean Technologies Collaborates with ECOCE to Advance Recycling of Flexible Plastic Packaging in Mexico
2025-12-03 15:10:48| Waste Age
Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (Aduro or the Company) (Nasdaq: ADUR) (CSE: ACT) (FSE: 9D5), a clean technology company using the power of chemistry to transform lower value feedstocks, like waste plastics, heavy bitumen, and renewable oils, into resources for the 21st century, and ECOCE, A.C. (ECOCE), a non-profit environmental civil association based in Mexico, today announced that they have entered into a multi-year framework collaboration agreement to jointly evaluate Hydrochemolytic Technology (HCT) as a potential chemical recycling solution for flexible and mixed plastic packaging in Mexico, a large and particularly challenging waste stream that ECOCE has identified as a priority.
Category: Energy and Environment
RTIs Asmita Narode Researches New Ways of Managing Waste
2025-12-03 15:01:38| Waste Age
In this Q&A interview, Asmita Narode, Ph.D. a 2025 Waste360 40 Under 40 Award winner, discusses her role as a research environmental engineer at RTI International, where she leads projects from proposal development to final deliverables, primarily for government clients.
Category: Energy and Environment
U.S. Businesses Are Worried About Future Packaging Materials Shortages, Says New Research
2025-12-03 14:54:27| Waste Age
Packaging professionals now view shortages of packaging products and materials as the key challenge likely to be faced by the industry in the future, according to a survey of senior industry leaders at the SPC Advance 2025 event.
Category: Energy and Environment
Light House Expands its Circular Construction Accelerator with 17 New BC Companies
2025-12-03 14:41:31| Waste Age
Light House has added 17 new BC companies to its Circular Construction Accelerator (CCA), Canadas only accelerator dedicated exclusively to advancing circular innovation across the building materials and construction sectors.
Category: Energy and Environment
Interstate Waste Services Acquires Filco Carting Corp., Enhancing CWZ Preparedness Across New York City and Expanding Footprint in New Jersey
2025-12-03 14:36:28| Waste Age
Interstate Waste Services, Inc. (IWS), a leading, vertically integrated provider of solid waste collection, recycling and disposal services, announced the acquisition of Filco Carting Corp (Filco).
Category: Energy and Environment
December Fire Report: A Plea to the Tobacco Industry
2025-12-03 14:12:56| Waste Age
As we approach the end of the year, the waste and recycling industry is unfortunately on track to reach a record number of publicly reported facility fire incidents in the US & Canada, driven largely by improperly discarded lithium-ion batteries, including vapes.
Category: Energy and Environment
Columbia, MO to Rebuild Destroyed Recycling Center
2025-12-02 15:06:43| Waste Age
The City Council of Columbia, Mo., voted this week to rebuild the city's recycling center, which was destroyed by a tornado.
Category: Energy and Environment
Call2Recycle Expands Its Vape Device Recycling Program in Quebec
2025-12-02 14:58:43| Waste Age
Call2Recycle, Canada's leading organization for battery collection and recycling, is expanding its Recycle Your Vapes program in Quebec to include cannabis vape devices.
Category: Energy and Environment
How Wastewater Plants are Becoming Green Energy Hubs
2025-12-02 14:49:23| Waste Age
Greater Peoria Sanitary District (GPSD) treats 20 to 25 million gallons of wastewater each day and uses some of the resulting biogas to heat its boilers while flaring the rest. But now the Illinois utility has other plans for some of the excess and is banking on monetary and environmental returns.
Category: Energy and Environment
Nespresso Donates 100,000 Lbs. of Compost from Coffee Grounds to City Plants LA
2025-12-02 13:30:00| Waste Age
Nespresso is proud to mark the next phase of its Grounds to Grow LA project with a donation of 100,000 pounds of finished compost -- which includes coffee grounds from Nespresso capsules successfully collected and recycled to LA-based organization, City Plants LA.
Category: Energy and Environment