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Plastic Recycling Facility in Chattogram - Bangladesh

Workers collect and sort discarded plastic bottles at a recycling facility in Chattogram. These plastic wastes are later processed and transformed into new products, underscoring both the environmental burden of plastic pollution and the vital role of recycling in the economy. on December 9, 2025 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Plastic Recycling Facility in Chattogram - Bangladesh

Discarded plastic bottles at a recycling facility in Chattogram. These plastic wastes are later processed and transformed into new products, underscoring both the environmental burden of plastic pollution and the vital role of recycling in the economy. on December 9, 2025 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Plastic Recycling Facility in Chattogram - Bangladesh

Workers collect and sort discarded plastic bottles at a recycling facility in Chattogram. These plastic wastes are later processed and transformed into new products, underscoring both the environmental burden of plastic pollution and the vital role of recycling in the economy. on December 9, 2025 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Plastic Recycling Facility in Chattogram - Bangladesh

Workers collect and sort discarded plastic bottles at a recycling facility in Chattogram. These plastic wastes are later processed and transformed into new products, underscoring both the environmental burden of plastic pollution and the vital role of recycling in the economy. on December 9, 2025 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Plastic Recycling Facility in Chattogram - Bangladesh

Workers collect and sort discarded plastic bottles at a recycling facility in Chattogram. These plastic wastes are later processed and transformed into new products, underscoring both the environmental burden of plastic pollution and the vital role of recycling in the economy. on December 9, 2025 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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UK: Fire Breaks Out at Recycling Facility in Rochester 2

A large fire broke out at a recycling facility in the Medway City Estate, Rochester on the morning of Friday, July 11. This drone footage shows a thick plume of black smoke rising from the site.

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UK: Fire Breaks Out at Recycling Facility in Rochester

A large fire broke out at a recycling facility in the Medway City Estate, Rochester on the morning of Friday, July 11. A thick plume of black smoke was captured on video from Rochester Station.

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South Korea: Fire Breaks Out at Recycling Facility in Incheon

A large fire erupted at a recycling facility in Seoun-dong, Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, on Friday morning, May 9. The blaze was quickly extinguished, but a safety alert was issued to nearby residents due to heavy smoke. There were no reports of casualties.

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New Zealand: Fire Breaks Out at Abilities Group Recycling Depot in Auckland 2

A large fire erupted at the Abilities Group Recycling Depot in Auckland's Wairau Valley on Thursday, April 23, around 5:24 p.m., sending dark smoke across the suburbs. According to reports, batteries burning inside the facility fueled the fire, prompting authorities to issue a "stay inside" warning.

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New Zealand: Fire Breaks Out at Abilities Group Recycling Depot in Auckland

A large fire erupted at the Abilities Group Recycling Depot in Auckland's Wairau Valley on Thursday, April 23, around 5:24 p.m., sending dark smoke across the suburbs. According to reports, batteries burning inside the facility fueled the fire, prompting authorities to issue a "stay inside" warning.

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France: Fire Burns Recyling Plant in Paris, Sending Huge Black Smoke

A massive black cloud was seen across Paris on Monday evening, April 7 as a fire erupted at the Syctom recycling facility in 17th arrondissement, the city's northwest. No injuries have been reported, but the recycling plant was badly damaged. This video, shot in 15th arrondissement, shows a huge plume of smoke rising behind Eiffel Tower.

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GREECE-ATHENS-PLASTIC POLLUTION

(230604) -- ATHENS, June 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 26, 2023 shows plastic packages at the facility of a plastic recycling company at west Athens, Greece. The World Environment Day 2023 will focus on beating plastic pollution and spotlight solutions to plastic pollution. (Photo by Lefteris Partsalis/Xinhua)

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Over 2,000 people ordered to evacuate due to fire at Indiana plastics facility

STORY: Over 2,000 people ordered to evacuate due to fire at Indiana plastics facility DATELINE: April 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: CHICAGO, U.S. CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. aerial view of the site 2. various of firefighting efforts STORYLINE: More than 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their home after a fire broke out Tuesday at an industrial site in Richmond, a city about 70 miles east of Indianapolis, U.S. Midwestern state of Indiana. The fire, breaking out sometime after 2 p.m. Tuesday, has belched colossal plumes of black smoke into the sky. The evacuation zone impacts approximately 2,011 people, and could shift as the winds change. The industrial site, spanning roughly 175,000 square feet, stores plastics and other materials for recycling. No serious injuries were reported. State and federal regulators were on the scene to assess the fire's impact on air quality and surface water runoff. The owner of the building had been warned several times, and had at one point been h

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Türkiye aims to set benchmark price on natural gas: president

STORY: Türkiye aims to set benchmark price on natural gas: president DATELINE: Dec, 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:08 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Silivri Natural Gas Storage Facility in Istanbul, Türkiye (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 2. various of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking at the Silivri Natural Gas Storage Facility opening ceremony in Istanbul, Türkiye (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 2. various of North Marmara Sea Natural Gas Storage and Recycling Facility in Türkiye (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 4. various of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijan President lham Aliyev and Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov in Awaza, Turkmenistan (courtesy of ihlas news agency) STORYLINE: Türkiye is working toward becoming a global energy hub, which sets the benchmark price of natural gas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday. Speaking at the Silivri Natural Gas Storage Facility in Istanbul, Erdogan said he had already disc

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Premier Abe visits recycling facility in western Japan

IZUMO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives a briefing on a recycling system in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2014.

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Facilities recycling 'shochu' dregs into bioethanol increasing

TOKYO, Japan - Workers pump from a tanker truck dregs from distilling Japanese ''shochu'' liquor into a storage facility in Saito, Miyazaki Prefecture.

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New facility to expand transforming food waste into compost in Aussie capital

STORY: New facility to expand transforming food waste into compost in Aussie capital DATELINE: April 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:39 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of food waste transformed into nutrient-rich compost in Canberra community STORYLINE: A large-scale organics recycling facility will be opened in Australia's capital city to strengthen its circular economy. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government announced funding for a new Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) facility to process Canberra's waste. It comes after a successful trial of a FOGO collection pilot servicing 5,000 households in the city's northern suburbs. The service diverts food waste from landfill and reduces harmful greenhouse gases by turning food scraps and garden waste into compost for the soil. "We are investing in new waste infrastructure that will support Canberrans to take everyday action on climate change and reduce our city's future emissions," Chris Steel, ACT's ministe

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Mitsubishi Chemical's pilot facility for carbon fiber recycling

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation plans to invest in a facility with an annual production capacity of 3,000 tons of compounded carbon fiber in 2020. The company plans to invest in a facility with an annual production capacity of 3,000 tons of compounded carbon fiber in 2020, which will enable it to increase orders for carbon fiber products in the automobile and other industries by recycling and reusing the fibers within its own group. Shinryo (Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu City), a subsidiary, will build a new commercial facility in Japan to recycle carbon fiber. The facility will be operational in 2009-2010, when demand for carbon fiber is expected to start up in earnest. The amount of investment will be determined in the future, but it is expected to be around 1 billion yen. Photo taken on July 30, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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PET bottle recycling center in Kitakyushu

(From R) President of Nishi-Nippon PET-Bottle Recycle Co. Kimiharu Kanakogi, former Kitakyushu Mayor Koichi Sueyoshi and Junichi Kawasaki, a former employee of Nippon Steel Corp (now Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.), visit NPR's plant in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in October 2014. NPR was established in 1997 as the first Eco-Town facility in Japan. (Photo by Hitoshi Takano) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PET bottle recycling center in Kitakyushu

(From R) President of Nishi-Nippon PET-Bottle Recycle Co. Kimiharu Kanakogi, former Kitakyushu Mayor Koichi Sueyoshi and Junichi Kawasaki, a former employee of Nippon Steel Corp (now Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.), visit NPR's PET bottle recycling center in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in October 2014. NPR was established in 1997 as the first Eco-Town facility in Japan. (Photo by Hitoshi Takano) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Premier Abe visits recycling facility in western Japan

IZUMO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives a briefing on a recycling system in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Plastic waste

Photo taken in April 2017 shows compressed plastic waste piled up at a facility in Tokyo for recycling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo