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How a floating trash fire in New York exposes a threat to national recycling efforts – POLITICO

How a floating trash fire in New York exposes a threat to national recycling efforts – POLITICO

Man, I remember that time I once threw at lithium button cell into a fire years ago. That thing went bang and smelled awful chemically. I do not recommend. Those lithium batteries contain a lot of energy, and when they get shorted can release a lot of that energy in the form of heat, which is bad when it's a mixture of combustibles like paper or plastic for recycling. Lithium batteries are causing a lot of fires in garbage trucks and recycling plants alike.

A Short History of Packaging Innovation – Waste & Recycling

A Short History of Packaging Innovation – Waste & Recycling

Examining historical methods of managing waste can inspire and inform modern day packaging innovations that prevent waste from entering a landfill. In North America during the 1880s, most packaging was reused. Broken packaging was mended or transformed into new products. For example, a barrel might be transformed into a chair. Previous generations conserved and reused materials, and thus produced less waste

New Maine law to get manufacturers, retailers using less packaging – Portland Press Herald

The Recycle Bin: New Maine law to get manufacturers, retailers using less packaging – Portland Press Herald

What the law does is require manufacturers and large retailers to pay for the recycling of their packaging. The less packaging they produce, and the more readily and easily it is to recycle what they do produce, the less the companies will pay to the state to cover the costs of that recycling. The monies the state collects from the program are to be passed down to the cities and towns to defray the local recycling program costs.