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Kroger Invites Customers to Mail In Flexible Plastic Packaging to Make New Recycled Products (Credit: Kroger Co.) The Kroger Co. is offering customers a way to recycle flexible plastic packaging in what the grocer says is the first program of its kind. The “Kroger Our Brands Recycling Program,” developed in partnership with TerraCycle, encourages customers to mail in flexible plastic Kroger-brands packaging. Once received, the collected packaging will be cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled products, the company says. Flexible plastic consumer pr...

Number of items fixed per session (held once a month): 30-60 Volunteer skill sets: At each session, we have about two to four sewers, three to four in electrical and two to three in general and mechanical (who fix items such as bikes and sharpen secateurs). Shortest fix – the shortest fix took just three seconds. A man brought in a chainsaw and wasn’t aware that it had a safety lock on it. Longest fix: the longest fix was a TV that took three hours. Our volunteers have incredible persistence, and this one refused to let the TV defeat him. By the end there were a few of them working on it ...

Malden news briefs Sidewalk repair work in Malden The Department of Conservation and Recreation will implement a lane shift and sidewalk closure along Mountain Avenue at the Lt. Dennis C. Holland Memorial Pool in Malden through April 16, excluding weekends, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to accommodate sidewalk repair work. Traffic patterns will be marked and a police detail will be onsite.  Mayor to hold webinar On April 8, Mayor Gary Christenson will hold a live question-and-answer webinar where residents will be invited to ask questions about the Pay-As-You-Throw Trash and Recycling Program...

Date Time First of its kind worm farm in Australia in a North Kellyville The Hills Shire Council is running a worm farm trial in an apartment complex in North Kellyville. The ‘skip bin-sized’ worm farm is located in a carpark – just beneath the complex – and houses roughly 120,000 (30kg of) worms, which will produce both worm castings and worm tea for the building to use in their shared garden plots and on their balcony verandas. The worm farm, supplied by Worms Downunder, is the first of its kind to be trialled in a residential apartment complex by any Council in Australia.

Date Time Amcor partners with McKinsey.org to build sustainable recycling systems in Latin America Amcor has partnered with McKinsey.org, a nonprofit founded by global consultancy McKinsey & Company, to develop recycling and waste management solutions that can be applied across communities in Latin America. Amcor is supporting McKinsey.org’s “Rethinking Recycling” initiative in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which has worked with 5,000 households, trained more than 120 workers and helped communities to recycle a third of their waste. Before the initiative, there was no formal recycling system...