Dear EarthTalk: Everyone knows we should recycle metal, glass and plastic cans and bottles, but what about all the lids, tops and caps?
Dear EarthTalk: Everyone knows we should recycle metal, glass and plastic cans and bottles, but what about all the lids, tops and caps? I see people recycling plastic bottles, for example, with their caps on, but I've always been told to thrown them out. Is that wrong? ...

Rockline Industries cashes in on wipes: three decades ago, Rockline Industries took a gamble that the wipes market would take off. It did, and so did the company.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Among the world's largest converters and contract manufacturers of disposable wipes, Rockline Industries took a gamble betting on the consumers' need and want of wipes--and won. A privately-held company, Rockline Industries was started by Ralph Rudolph in 1976. It has grown to be arguably the...

Inion gains US approval for biodegradable spinal implants.
Finnish company Inion Oy said it has won clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its biodegradable graft containment systems for spinal fusion. The company, with facilities in Tampere, Finland and Guildford, UK, said clearance was for its trademarked S-1 anterior cervical fusion...

Market sacks plastic bags.
Byline: The Register-Guard The time has come to bag the plastic shopping bag, but the best way to accomplish that is for retailers and shoppers to take the lead rather than for cities and counties to adopt blanket laws that prohibit or tax the ubiquitous carry-outs. ...

Drowning in plastic: living in a toxic world.
Sixty years ago plastic was an exotic development of modern chemistry. Today it is the most widespread human-made substance in the world. More than 250 billion pounds of raw plastic pellets are produced from petroleum feedstock every year. It is everywhere, in places you never imagined: computers and cell...

Biotech Organization Bullish on President's Biofuels Push.
ENERGY RESOURCE-24 January 2007-Biotech Organization Bullish on President's Biofuels Push(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Aimed at stimulating large-scale production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass, BIO President Jim Greenwood noted that with recent advances in industrial biotechnology, "the United States can achieve the goal of the production of 35...

Industries Guidance Catalogue (2007 Edition) for foreign company to invest (III): parts concerning with chemical industry.
(Continues page 5 of issue 35) F. Chemical fibers 1. Production of high-tech chemical fibers such as differential chemical fibers, aramid fiber, carbon fiber, high tenacity and high modelus polyethylene, polyphenyl sulfide (PPS) etc. 2. Production of environmental friendly chemical fibers such as...

Commercialization of biological materials accelerated.
To accelerate the development of the biological material sector and promote the cyclic economy, the National Development and Reform Commission of China has decided to establish a biological material high-tech commercialization special fund during 2008-2009. The special fund will mainly be used to support major biological material commercialization projects...

Calendar.
6-7 March 2008, Veracruz, Mexico 1st BIOPOLYMERIC MATERIALS ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: BIOPMAT 2008 Contact: Secretariat, Moctezuma #65, Zona Centro, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico; tel: +52-228-8124470; Internet: fesi@xal.megared.net.mx 26-27 March 2008, Greenville, South Carolina, USA OPPORTUNITIES AND MARKETS FOR MEDICAL TEXTILES AND BIOMEDICAL...

Fact: vendors need to know about the bottled water environmental controversy: while bottled water sales remain high, the industry must keep customers informed and stay proactive on water quality issues.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Given the myriad of challenges facing the refreshment services industry today, the last thing vending and OCS operators need is to be associated with products that negatively impact the environment or are of questionable safety. Not only is this occurring, but it has...