Container Recycling Institute

According to the Container Recycling Institute, only 14 percent of plastic water bottles are recycled. 

COPE Council on Packaging in the Environ- CRI Container Recycling Institute... 

The Container Recycling Institute reports that the recychng rate for beer and soft drink containers (all types) in deposit states (including California) averages over 70 percent, 2 to... 

Container Recycling Institute, Aluminum Beverage Can Waste Passes the One TrilUon Mark,... 

Container Recycling Institute, Bottle Bill Resource Guide, http //www.bottlebill.org/. 

The Federal Trade Commission has aimounced a rule, effective November 30, 1995, that sets test procedures and labeling standards for recycled oil used as engine lubricating oil (35). The test procedures used are those contained in the Engine Oil Licensing and Certification System of the American Petroleum Institute (API) (36). The rule states in effect that if recycled oils meet the requirements of the API Certification System, such oils ate substantially equivalent to new oil for use as engine oil. This federal rule preempts certain state recycled oil rules (35). 

MITI is currently undergoing research to develop technology for the recycling of non-flammable plastics such as those used in business machines and computers. Their National Institute for Resources and Environment plans to decompose, without the production of harmful substances, non-flammable polymers by means of liquid phase hydrocracking, and to recover from them light oils such as benzene, toluene and xylene. The key to the technology, it is claimed, lies in the development of a catalyst which will be able to combine hazardous substances such as bromine and chlorine contained in the waste plastics. 

Krofta, M. and Wang, L.K., Total Waste Recycle System for a Wastewater Treatment System Using Pulp Mill Chemicals Containing Aluminum and Calcium, Lenox Institute of Water Technology, Lenox, M A, Technical Report LIR/10-84/, 1984, 524 p. 

Genpak, a plastic products manufacturer, and Mobil are in the process of opening and operating one of the first plants to recycle polystyrene foam items such as food containers, cups, and cutlery. The materials are being collected from Massachusetts schools and institutions by New England CRInc, a major reclamation firm and recycled materials end-use manufacturer. The plant has a capacity to recycle 3 million lb per year of polystyrene resin, which will be reused by the companies or sold to producers of insulation, fence posts, and flower pots. The new company is expecting a profit by 1992. 

Since 1951, silver consumption has exceeded its extraction from ore. Secondary silver production involves the recovery of silver from new and old scrap, resulting from silver-containing wastes generated by industry and the consumer. Recycled silver accounted for 40% of U.S. refinery production in 1971 and had increased to 67% by 1974 (Smith and Carson 1977). It was estimated to be 61% and 56% in 1988 and 1989, respectively (The Silver Institute 1990). The estimated world-wide recovery of silver from the photographic industry is about 67% of the total used (The Silver Institute 1988). It has been estimated that 80%, 68%, and 75% of today s annual consumption by the electrical, industrial-alloy, and art industries, respectively, is recycled silver, but these estimates may be high. 

Akzo Nobel is an important producer of chlorine, vinyl chloride and PVC, strongly interested in a process for feedstock recycling of MPW containing PVC. Since 1994 they have chosen a fast pyrolysis process in a circulating fluidized-bed reactor, based on the technique developed by the Battelle Memorial Institute (CO, USA) for biomass gasification. 

Liquid waste streams containing an insoluble liquid can arise from extraction processes, from steam ejectors operating on solvent distillation systems, or from the loss of heat exchange fluid from a heat exchanger. These should be phase-separated before final disposal measures are undertaken. A simple settler, or a unit such as an American Petroleum Institute (API) separator can be used to accomplish this step. Coupling the initial separator to an entrained or dissolved air flotation unit can reduce the concentration of residual organics further [75]. The recovered organics can be recycled via a further cleanup if required, and the water phase more safely discarded. 

Excess mercury should be collected for recycling, and waste material containing mercury should be placed in an appropriate container, clearly labeled, and handled according to your institution s waste disposal guidelines. For more information on disposal procedures, see Chapter 7 of this volume. 

When a product containing polymeric materials is considered unfit for use, the industrial, commercial, institutional or household consumer of the product will decide on the next event the polymer will experience. The consumer will either direct the product into the general trash stream for permanent disposal or into a recycling stream. 

No one has ever before questioned the need for phosphate detergents in industrial and institutional uses such as restaurants and hospitals, and particularly in automatic dishwashing machines for home use. Hypochlorites are almost universally used to clean tables and counters in restaurants to help us from becoming infected by bacteria left in the foods spilled by other customers. This week a detergent manufacturer is test-marketing a nonphosphate nonchlorine recycled box in a western city. The printing on the box highlights what the box does not contain. 

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