NOW COMPANIES CAN SORT IT OUT.
Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard With a crash, a front-end loader dumps 3 cubic yards of what looks like garbage onto a heavy conveyor belt inside SP Recycling's plant in Clackamas. But it's not trash. It's a load of mixed recyclables from Eugene, collected by...

Bioreactor turns wastes.
A bioreactor that could help solve the garbage and at the same time produce organic fertilizer will be launched next Wednesday at the Rembrandt Hotel in Quezon City. This is the Bioreactor 500 developed at the Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) of the Department of Science and...

Bioreactor turns wastes into fertilizer in 4-5 days.
Byline: Zac B. Sarian A bioreactor that could help solve the garbage and at the same time produce organic fertilizer will be launched next Wednesday at the Rembrandt Hotel in Quezon City. This is the Bioreactor 500 developed at the Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI)...

The perils of packaging.
Do you often return from a shopping trip to find you have brought home more packaging than useful product? The recent DUMP Awards highlighted some of the most wasteful brands. Beauty products and confectionary are the worst offenders of wasteful packaging, the Australian Conservation Foundation and a...

Recycling can do more than save the planet.
Byline: Recycling by Pete Chism For The Register-Guard WHEN MOST people think about recycling and reuse, environmental benefits usually come to mind first. Recycling and reuse preserve virgin resources for future generations. They also serve to save energy and reduce pollution. Somewhat less apparent are...

Germ-killing plastic wrap.
Biodegradable plastic that releases germ killers provides an example of what's known as active packaging, and scientists report progress toward taking this concept to market. Paul Dawson and his colleagues at Clemson (S.C.) University are fashioning plastics from proteins found in corn, soy, and wheat. While these...

Sifting for junkyard treasure.
That old junked Chevy may be an eyesore, but it's also a gold mine of recyclable materials. The trick is in panning them out and cleaning them up, says Bassam J. Jody, a chemist at Argonne (Ill.) National Laboratory. Jody reports a new method for ferreting out...

IBM Recycles Plastic in New Intellistation.
IBM Corp has launched what it claims is the first desktop PC using 100% recycled plastic resin for all major plastic parts. The IntelliStation E Pro is one of several new Windows NT workstations and commercial PCs IBM launched last week that use Intel Corp's newly launched Pentium III...

Converting plastics into oil.
In the future, instead of incinerators or landfills, waste plastics may be carried to "converters" for quick, efficient, and environmentally friendly transformation to commercially usable oil, according to M. Mehdi Taghiei, senior research associate, Institute for Mining and Minerals Research, University of Kentucky. "We have successfully converted plastics of...

Not such a load of rubbish.
THE BIRDS HAVE already been calling for the best part of an hour when the first rays of light filter through the curtain. But as you pull the bedcovers a little closer to ward off the chill, the distant roar of a diesel engine and the familiar squeal of...