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$43M Organic Recycling Center Proposed Minnesota The Ramsey/Washington Recycling & Energy Center in Newport,Minnesota, is about to take a $43 million dive into organics recycling. The addition to the center would enable it to pull food scraps out of the waste stream for the first time. Accord- ing to a proposal, the project would increase recycling, de- crease the amount of garbage being burned and reduce ma- terial sent to landfills.The proposal would bring the public cost of the center to $82 million — $24 million to buy it in 2016, $15 million in improvement projects, and $43 million the new organic-waste expansion. NWRA Recognized By ASAE The American Society for Association Executives (ASAE) named the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) to its list of 100 Associations That Will Save the World . NWRA was recognized for its work to keep waste collec- tion workers safe on the job. ASAE highlighted NWRA’s Slow Down to Get Around initiative and its work during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide important safety resources to its member companies to ensure employees remain safe. Dow Helps Reduce Plastic Waste In Nigeria Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, Midland, Michigan, has announced that Project ReflexNG has launched. The pilot program aims to collect and recycle plastic scrap in Lagos, Nigeria.This is a part of Dow’s global goal to reduce, reuse or recycle 1 million metric tons of plastic by 2030. This project was made possible through partnerships with Omnik, RecyclePoints and the Lagos Business School Sustainability Centre. Through the project, water sachets will be recycled to show how they can be collected and re- used to make new packaging.The goal is to keep about 300 million sachets out of the environment or landfills while teaching more about sustainability. Right now, it’s estimated that about 19 percent of Nigeri- ans don’t have access to clean drinking water.Water sachets provide a less expensive source of drinking water, especially in urban areas. However, their use has led to more pollution and bad waste disposal.Often,water sachets aren’t included because waste pickers are paid by weight and the sachets are light. RecyclePoints, a waste management company, will collect the sachets through kiosks. Returning them will have incentives like exchanges for groceries, cash and other needed items.The plan is to expand to include more collec- tion partners later on. After the sachets are collected, Omnik will process it into postconsumer resin (PCR) and then work with Dow to de- termine how the PCR can best be used again. The pilot phase runs to February 2021 and after that Dow will scale up Project ReflexNG to recover even more flexi- ble packaging.

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