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Everything looked rosy for Ben Davies 72 minutes into Jose Mourinho's first game in charge.
Jose set out an important role for the Welsh defender in that cauldron of an opener at West Ham back on 23 November.
Ben started at left-back in our 4-2-3-1 system but when we were in possession of the ball, he moved inside making a three-man defence, allowing right-back Serge Aurier to push forward and become another attacking option. "Defend with a back four, attack with a back three," Jose later explained.
It was a role made for Ben. A left-back with 177 appearances to his name at Spurs, he'd also played regularly on the left side of a three-man central defence in his 52 caps for Wales.
It's a been a tough one, difficult not to be involved but look, it happens in football, and you have to be ready when you come back
It was working perfectly as well. We'd stormed into a 3-0 lead at the London Stadium and were in complete control. Then, on 73 minutes, Michail Antonio fired home for West Ham and connected with Ben on his follow through. It looked innocuous enough at the time, but Ben was forced off two minutes later – and has been out since with ankle ligament damage.
After missing Jose's next 18 games and being sidelined for 10 weeks, Ben is back in full training. Jose reported last week that he was hopeful he'd be available when we travel to Villa on Sunday (2pm).
"I feel good," said Ben after training on Wednesday. "It's a been a tough one, difficult not to be involved but look, it happens in football, and you have to be ready when you come back.
"I want to be part of the group but unfortunately in that first game against West Ham I had that taken away from me. I feel ready now and I can't wait to get back out there."
Recalling the injury, he added: "I tried to play on with it but I was struggling to run, I knew it was sore but I tried to get to the end of the game, couldn't manage it, then had some scans and realised the damage was pretty bad. Luckily, I didn't need surgery and I'm over the hardest part now."
His return is perfect timing with a crucial week ahead - after Villa, it's the return of the Champions League and our Round of 16, first leg at home to RB Leipzig next Wednesday (19 February, 8pm) and then a huge Premier League derby at Chelsea on Saturday week (22 February, 12.30pm).
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Q: C++ using scoped_ptr as a member variable Just wanted opinions on a design question. If you have a C++ class than owns other objects, would you use smart pointers to achieve this?
class Example {
public:
  // ...

private:
  boost::scoped_ptr<Owned> data;
};

The 'Owned' object can't be stored by value because it may change through the lifetime of the object.
My view of it is that on the one side, you make it clear that the object is owned and ensure its deletion, but on the flipside, you could easily just have a regular pointer and delete it in the destructor. Is this overkill?
Follow up: Just wanted to say thanks for all your answers. Thanks for the heads-up about auto_ptr leaving the other object with a NULL pointer when the whole object is copied, I have used auto_ptr extensively but had not thought of that yet. I make basically all my classes boost::noncopyable unless I have a good reason, so there's nothing to worry about there. And thanks also for the information on memory leaks in exceptions, that's good to know too. I try not to write things which could cause exceptions in the constructor anyway - there are better ways of doing that - so that shouldn't be a problem.
I just had another question though. What I wanted when I asked this question was to know whether anyone actually did this, and you all seem to mention that it's a good idea theoretically, but no one's said they actually do it. Which surprises me! Certainly one object owning a pointer to another is not a new idea, I would have expected you all would have done it before at some point. What's going on?

A: It's not overkill at all, it's a good idea.
It does require your class clients to know about boost, though.  This may or may not be an issue. For portability you could consider std::auto_ptr which does (in this case) the same job. As it's private, you don't have to worry about other people attempting to copy it.

A: Using the scoped_ptr is a good idea.
Keeping and manually destroying the pointer is not as simple as you think. Especially if there is more than one RAW pointer in your code. If exception safety and not leaking memory is a priority then you need a lot of extra code to get it correct.
For a start you have to make sure you correctly define all four default methods. This is because the compiler generated version of these methods are fine for normal objects (including smart pointers) but in the normal case will lead to problems with pointer handling (Look for the Shallow Copy Problem).

*

*Default Constructor

*Copy Constructor

*Assignment Operator

*Destructor

If you use the scoped_ptr then you don't need to worry about any of those.
Now if you have more than one RAW pointer in your class (or other parts of your constructor can throw) . You have to EXPLICITLY deal with exceptions during construction and destruction.
class MyClass
{
    public:
        MyClass();
        MyClass(MyClass const& copy);
        MyClass& operator=(MyClass const& copy);
        ~MyClass();

    private
        Data*    d1;
        Data*    d2;
};

MyClass::MyClass()
    :d1(NULL),d2(NULL)
{
    // This is the most trivial case I can think off
    // But even it looks ugly. Remember the destructor is NOT called
    // unless the constructor completes (without exceptions) but if an
    // exception is thrown then all fully constructed object will be
    // destroyed via there destructor. But pointers don't have destructors.
    try
    {
        d1 = new Data;
        d2 = new Data;
    }
    catch(...)
    {
        delete d1;
        delete d2;
        throw;
    }
}

Look how much easier a scopted_ptr is.

A: scoped_ptr is very good for this purpose. But one has to understand its semantics. You can group smart pointers using two major properties:

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*Copyable: A smart pointer can be copied: The copy and the original share ownership.

*Movable: A smart pointer can be moved: The move-result will have ownership, the original won't own anymore.

That's rather common terminology. For smart pointers, there is a specific terminology which better marks those properties:

*

*Transfer of Ownership: A smart pointer is Movable

*Share of Ownership: A smart pointer is copyable. If a smart pointer is already copyable, it's easy to support transfer-of-ownership semantic: That then is just an atomic copy & reset-of-original operation, restricting that to smart pointers of certain kinds (e.g only temporary smart pointers).

Let's group the available smart pointers, using (C)opyable, and (M)ovable, (N)either:

*

*boost::scoped_ptr: N

*std::auto_ptr: M

*boost::shared_ptr: C

auto_ptr has one big problem, in that it realizes the Movable concept using a copy constructor. That is because When auto_ptr was accepted into C++, there wasn't yet a way to natively support move semantics using a move constructor, as opposed to the new C++ Standard. That is, you can do the following with auto_ptr, and it works:
auto_ptr<int> a(new int), b;
// oops, after this, a is reset. But a copy was desired!
// it does the copy&reset-of-original, but it's not restricted to only temporary
// auto_ptrs (so, not to ones that are returned from functions, for example).
b = a;

Anyway, as we see, in your case you won't be able to transfer the ownership to another object: Your object will in effect be non-copyable. And in the next C++ Standard, it will be non-movable if you stay with scoped_ptr.
For implementing your class with scoped_ptr, watch that you either have one of these two points satisfied:

*

*Write an destructor (even if it's empty) in the .cpp file of your class, or

*Make Owned a completely defines class.

Otherwise, when you would create an object of Example, the compiler would implicitly define a destructor for you, which would call scoped_ptr's destructor:
~Example() { ptr.~scoped_ptr<Owned>(); }

That would then make scoped_ptr call boost::checked_delete, which would complain about Owned being incomplete, in case you haven't done any of the above two points. If you have defined your own dtor in the .cpp file, the implicit call to the destructor of scoped_ptr would be made from the .cpp file, in which you could place the definition of your Owned class.
You have that same problem with auto_ptr, but you have one more problem: Providing auto_ptr with an incomplete type is undefined behavior currently (maybe it will be fixed for the next C++ version). So, when you use auto_ptr, you have to make Owned a complete type within your header file.
shared_ptr doesn't have that problem, because it uses a polymorphic deleter, which makes an indirect call to the delete. So the deleting function is not instantiated at the time the destructor is instantiated, but at the time the deleter is created in shared_ptr's constructor.

A: Scoped pointers are good for exactly this because they ensure that the objects get deleted without you having to worry about it as a programmer. I think that this is a good use of scoped ptr.
I find that a good design strategy in general is to avoid freeing memory manually as much as possible and let your tools (in this case smart pointers) do it for you. Manual deletion is bad for one main reason as I can see it, and that is that code becomes difficult to maintain very quickly. The logic for allocation and deallocation of memory is often separate in the code, and that leads to the complementary lines not being maintained together.

A: I don't think this is overkill, this documents the semantics of the member much better than having a raw pointer and is less error prone.

A: It's a good idea. It helps simplify your code, and ensure that when you do change the Owned object during the lifetime of the object, the previous one gets destroyed properly.
You have to remember that scoped_ptr is noncopyable, though, which makes your class noncopyable by default until/unless you add your own copy constructor, etc. (Of course, using the default copy constructor in the case of raw pointers would be a no-no too!)
If your class has more than one pointer field, then use of scoped_ptr actually improves exception safety in one case:
class C
{
  Owned * o1;
  Owned * o2;

public:
  C() : o1(new Owned), o2(new Owned) {}
  ~C() { delete o1; delete o2;}
};

Now, imagine that during construction of a C the second "new Owned" throws an exception (out-of-memory, for example). o1 will be leaked, because C::~C() (the destructor) won't get called, because the object has not been completely constructed yet. The destructor of any completely constructed member field does get called though. So, using a scoped_ptr instead of a plain pointer will allow o1 to be properly destroyed.

A: Why an overkill? boost::scoped_ptr is very easy to optimize, and I bet the resulting machine code would be the same as if you manually delete the pointer in the destructor.
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The Every Bottle Back initiative will roll out the $400 million of investments in a seven-to-10-year period.
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Perfecting the picture for PET bottles
The American Beverage Association's Every Bottle Back initiative seeks to ensure the circularity of PET bottles.
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On average, America's top beverage companies produce about 100 billion plastic bottles every year, according to estimates from the American Beverage Association. While an estimated 35 billion bottles are collected and recycled annually, the majority of these bottles end up in the waste stream, according to that association.
In 2019, The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, released a report, "The Bridge to Circularity: Putting the 'New Plastics Economy' into Practice in the U.S.," that provides a case study of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle recycling. According to that report, an annual gap of about 1 billion pounds exists between current U.S. supply and projected demand for recycled PET (rPET) from major brands. Sarah Dearman, vice president of circular ventures at The Recycling Partnership, says the study reached the conclusion that in its current state, the U.S. recycling system can't help companies meet their goals to use rPET in their products. She adds that to meet companies' demand for rPET, each person in the U.S. would need to recycle an additional 100 PET bottles per year.
"But people don't have enough access to recycling," she says. "They are not participating at the levels they need to, and significant investment is needed in the system."
Investment in PET bottle recycling is needed to meet demand, and some investment is coming this year. The American Beverage Association, Washington, has launched the Every Bottle Back initiative to invest about $400 million toward plastic bottle recycling efforts in the U.S. The initiative aligns top beverage makers with nonprofit groups, such as Switzerland-based World Wildlife Fund, New York-based Closed Loop Partners and The Recycling Partnership.
Katherine Lugar, president and CEO at the American Beverage Association, says the new initiative has four major pieces:
• partner with the World Wildlife Fund to measure progress in using less new plastic;
• invest an equivalent of $400 million in recycling infrastructure to reclaim as many bottles as possible;
• leverage packaging to remind consumers that bottles are 100 percent recyclable; and
• communicate to consumers that bottles are not intended to be single-use packages.
Together, the American Beverage Association hopes these groups will be able to collaborate to make investments into a more circular system to ensure PET bottles are reclaimed, recycled and remade.
"Ultimately, we hope to support the creation of a more circular system for recreating bottles to new bottles that reduces our industry's plastic footprint and conserves resources," Lugar says.
Precompetitive collaboration
Members of the American Beverage Association include brands such as The Coca-Cola Co., Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo. Lugar says all these companies had expressed a desire to work across the industry to recycle more PET bottles. All companies have committed funds toward this initiative.
"Companies had already been talking about a desire to work across industry on these areas precompetitively," she says. "Much of this comes from the fact that just like our consumers are frustrated when they see plastic bottles end up on beaches or the side of the road, we share that frustration, too. Bottles were made to be remade."
While Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and Pepsi are competitive businesses and each has their own separate sustainability targets and platforms around recycling plastics, Lugar says it was important for them to work precompetitively on Every Bottle Back to develop long-term solutions to recover more PET.
Nicole Smith, sustainability manager at Coca-Cola North America, Atlanta, says the initiative requires groups to work together regardless of market share competition to come up with a long-term solution.
"I think not one of us can solve this on our own," she says. "It's fantastic to have industry partners come together. That's what this is all about—how can we collectively do good?"
Monique Oxender, chief sustainability officer at Keurig Dr Pepper, Boston, adds that it's been easy to partner with other beverage brands on Every Bottle Back because they all agree on the impact that they want to have on U.S. communities. "Sitting together, working for a common purpose of eliminating plastic waste is something we can all agree on, she says.
Kathleen Niesen, director of recycling and sustainability at PepsiCo Beverages North America, Purchase, New York, adds that having three major beverage brands work together on Every Bottle Back demonstrates the importance of the plastics recycling issue to society.
"Here are market competitors who spend a lot of time and energy promoting their particular products and image in the marketplace, and yet we have seen that this recycling and sustainability work is so important that we can put competitiveness aside for the sake of addressing this issue," Niesen says. "It's only by collaboration that we're going to make a problem of this scale a nonproblem."
Lugar adds that this is not the first initiative its member companies have collaborated on. She says that in the past, these companies have collaborated on health-related initiatives to reduce the amount of sugar in their beverages as well as to create clear calorie labels on beverage packaging.
"We don't know of another industry that's working in partnership with leading brands," she adds. "These three companies are committed to sustainability with a long track record of delivering on sustainability goals. I think it's important to note that they have recognized that by harnessing the power of the three companies together will help to deliver the greatest impact; they all recognize the need to work together to reduce plastic in the environment."
Individual initiatives
Members of the American Beverage Association include the Coca-Cola Co., Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo. In addition to committing to the Every Bottle Back initiative that launched in the fall of 2019, each of these brands has their own sustainability commitments and projects to improve plastic recycling efforts. The following are just some of the goals and commitments from Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo.
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In addition to Every Bottle Back, Coca-Cola Co. also is one of the companies participating in the NextGen Cup Challenge, which is a multiyear partnership of food and beverage industry leaders to address single-use food packaging waste. The companies aim to advance recoverable solutions for the to-go cup. Companies are developing alternative cup solutions to bring to scale. Other partner companies involved include McDonald's, Starbucks, IDEO, Yum! Brands, Nestlé, Wendy's and World Wildlife Fund.
"You've got to work together in these spaces," says Nicole Smith, sustainability manager at Coca-Cola North America. "You need scale to help these things grow and have a bigger impact. I think it's fantastic to have dialogues and hear different ideas and new ways to make things better."
Keurig Dr Pepper
Keurig Dr Pepper has started to transition to recyclable K-Cup pods. By the end of 2020, the company anticipates that 100 percent of its K-Cup pods will be recyclable.
In recent years, Keurig Dr Pepper reports that it has been working closely with recyclers to ensure they can sort and recycle K-Cup pods and other small format plastics in North America.
Monique Oxender, chief sustainability officer at Keurig Dr Pepper, says K-Cup pods became 100 percent recyclable in Canada by the end of 2018.
"The K-Cup pods are polypropylene plastic," she says. "They are highly recyclable, accepted in most communities across the U.S. It's a valuable material that people really want to buy and reuse. We started testing this back in 2015. We tested dozens of facilities to ensure [K-Cup pods] can be effectively sorted and recycled. The result, on average, was that 90 percent of the pods do make it to the container line—they're not too small and don't fall out to glass or residuals."
In January, Falls Church, Virginia-based The Recycling Partnership and the PepsiCo Foundation had announced that they would help contribute funds to improve recycling in the city of Detroit. The city has received about $800,000 in grants to support expansion of recycling in the city. Funding also will help increase recycling education statewide in Michigan in 2020.
Kathleen Niesen, director of recycling and sustainability at PepsiCo Beverages North America, says PepsiCo has been a partner of The Recycling Partnership for a few years—the company helped with the nonprofit's All In On Recycling grant that kicked off in 2018.
"The recycling in Detroit education program is just one example of the work being done by The Recycling Partnership, funded in part by the All In On Recycling grant," Niesen says.
Improving education and infrastructure
Beyond consistently measuring these brands' progress using less virgin plastics, the key components of Every Bottle Back include improving recycling education and improving infrastructure at material recovery facilities (MRFs) to recycle PET bottles.
Smith at Coca-Cola says recycling is confusing, so the companies involved in Every Bottle Back already have been working to develop improved consumer awareness campaigns to help educate the general public on how to recycle PET bottles.
"We're working on a more uniform label that each of the different stakeholders can voluntarily place on beverage bottles to help communicate to consumers to keep caps on and to recycle the bottle when they're finished with it," she says.
"As a product leaves a store shelf and goes into a consumer's hands, we want to be sure that consumer knows what to do with that product and how to recycle it," Oxender of Keurig Dr Pepper adds. "The result of the consumer recycling right increases recycling rates and also increases the quality of the material that's being recycled."
Also, funds from the initiative will help MRFs invest in new technology that ensures they can recover PET bottles easily.
"We want to make sure the recyclers have the facilities and equipment to be able to sort and capture the material coming in blue bins to the facility to increase the amount of PET recycling, which allows us in turn to use more recycled content," Oxender says.
Long-term goals
The Every Bottle Back initiative will roll out the $400 million of investments in a seven-to-10-year period, so it's just in the early planning stages currently. Dearman of The Recycling Partnership says the initiative will have a bit of a regional focus and will gradually rollout to different communities in the U.S.
"We're in the planning process of finding where the greatest opportunities are for us to make an impact," she says. "It will scale over time."
Some of the key goals for the Every Bottle Back initiative are included in the graphic.
Dearman says the initiative will have a "significant impact" in several communities in 2020. She adds that toolkits will be made with information and experiences learned in each of the communities served during the Every Bottle Back initiative; the toolkits will provide education resources to communities not directly served in the initiative.
In mid-January, the initiative announced its plans to rollout recycling education improvements in the Dallas-Fort Worth community first. The initiative committed about $3 million toward recycling education and infrastructure improvements in that community.
About $2 million of that investment will be applied toward infrastructure improvements at Austin, Texas-based Balcones Resources' material recovery facility (MRF) in Farmers Branch, Texas, just north of Dallas. Sometime in 2020, the MRF will be enhanced with optical sorters, artificial intelligence and robotics that separate recyclable plastics. New belt configurations will help to improve recyclables processing.
The initiative also will help improve recycling education at multifamily housing complexes in the community. The American Beverage Association reports that about 50,000 residents in multifamily housing units across the community will benefit from expanded recycling access and better on-site and in-unit signage about recycling.
Additionally, the initiative will share a "Know What to Throw" public service campaign to educate residents across 230 communities in Dallas-Fort Worth about how to decrease recycling contamination.
Similar rollouts will occur in other communities across the U.S. in the coming months and years, the American Beverage Association reports. Lugar says she estimates that about 9 million households will have improved access to recycling as a result of Every Bottle Back, which could lead to a 20 percent increase in the amount of PET recycling over what's currently done. She says the association also hopes this initiative will encourage other industries to collaborate on improving PET recycling.
"We hope this is a catalyst for others," she says. "With leading voices in the environmental community, we know we can have a greater impact."
BIR selects Switzerland for fall meeting
Recycling organization will meet in Geneva Oct. 11-13.
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The Brussels-based Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has announced the InterContinental hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, as the site of its autumn 2020 convention. The group will convene Oct. 11-13 at the venue.
The BIR also continues to prepare for its Spring 2020 World Recycling Convention, which will take place May 17-20 May at the Swissôtel-The Bosphorus in Istanbul.
The recycling organization also selected dates for its spring and autumn events for the years 2021 to 2023:
2021: May 30-June 2; Oct. 24-26
2022: May 29-June 1; Oct. 16-18; and
2023: May 21-24; Oct. 22-24.
Although host cities have not been chosen for those meetings, BIR says it "will continue to alternate global destinations and European business hubs for its forthcoming conventions."
Waste Management reports Q4 growth
Strong revenue growth from collection and disposal business was offset by recycling commodity price headwinds, company says during call with investors.
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Waste Management, headquartered in Houston, reports revenues of $3.85 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019. In the same quarter of the prior year, revenues were $3.84 billion. Net income for the quarter was $447 million compared with net income of $531 million for the fourth quarter of 2018. On an adjusted basis, earnings per diluted share were $1.19 for the fourth quarter of 2019, compared with $1.13 for the fourth quarter of 2018.
The company says revenue growth in Q4 was driven by strong organic growth in its collection and disposal business, which contributed $88 million of incremental revenue. Throughout 2019, strong revenue growth from the collection and disposal business was partially offset by recycling commodity price headwinds, the company said during a call with investors. The sharp decline in market prices for recycled commodities led to a $104 million year-over-year decline in revenue from the company's recycling line of business in the fourth quarter of 2019 and a $244 million decline for the full year.
Adjusted operating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) was $1.12 billion for the fourth quarter of 2019 and $4.38 billion for the year. On a year-over-year basis, adjusted operating EBITDA grew $28 million in Q4 and $167 million for the year.
The company says operating EBITDA in its recycling line of business declined $12 million when comparing Q4 of 2019 with the same period in 2018, noting a 35 percent decline in market prices for recycled commodities during 2019. For the company's collection and disposal business, adjusted operating EBITDA grew $120 million, or 9.9%, in the fourth quarter and $402 million or 8.5 percent for the year.
For the full year 2019, the company reports revenues of $15.46 billion compared with $14.91 billion for 2018.
"In 2019, we continued our focus on optimizing our traditional solid waste business, developing our people and investing in technology to better serve our customers," says Jim Fish, president and CEO of Waste Management. "Our strong results demonstrate that we are investing in the right areas. Our collection and disposal business operating EBITDA grew by 8.5 percent in 2019 and operating EBITDA margin expanded by 70 basis points. This strong operating EBITDA growth translated into an 8.5 percent increase in net cash provided by operations in 2019."
"We also are pleased to have been recognized for the fourth consecutive year on CDP's 'A-List' for leading effort toward a low-carbon future. We have had a longstanding commitment to environmental transparency and are proud of the progress we have achieved on reducing emissions and mitigating climate risk," Fish says.
The complete fourth-quarter report is available here.
Fish adds, "Our hardworking team members made 2019 a successful year, and 2020 is set to be an outstanding year as we drive organic growth in the solid waste business and anticipate closing on the acquisition of Advanced Disposal. We will continue to focus on the long-term growth of our business through investments in our team members, technology, and asset network. We are confident that we are positioned for success in 2020 and beyond."
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Lindner will showcase its latest generation of the Atlas primary shredder as well as smart system solutions at IFAT 2020, which takes place May 4-8 in Munich.
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Lindner to showcase smart system solutions at IFAT 2020
The Austria-based company will display its Atlas primary shredder, smart system solutions at the event.
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Austria-based Lindner Recyclingtech, a shredding and waste processing specialist, plans to showcase its smart system solutions during IFAT 2020, which takes place May 4-8 in Munich. During the event, Lindner will showcase its latest generation of the Atlas primary shredder as well as smart system solutions that turn waste recovery facilities into smart factories, the company reports in a news release.
"We have always been one of the industry's pioneers, which is why the mechanical components of our facilities are already very sophisticated today," says Stefan Scheiflinger-Ehrenwerth, head of product management at Lindner. "Digitalization and smart technology is now the next evolutionary step. The industry 4.0 concept has triggered an industrial revolution that will also change the waste industry significantly over the coming years. Our customers will work with valuable raw materials, and they must be processed into new, top-quality products with maximum efficiency—whether the ideal fuel for resource-saving energy generation or the raw material for high-quality products made from recyclables.
He continues, "If we look at the requirements and legal regulations that will be imposed on the raw materials industry in the future, the only way we will be able to work profitably is to increase the product quality of fuels and recyclates as efficiently as possible. On the one hand, this will require digital transformation, and on the other we will have to optimize mechanical parts. For example, primary shredding is essential. When it comes to robot sorting, tracer detection or online quality assurance systems, then not only is the optimum particle size important but consistently dosed feeding is crucial. That's why it's so important for the individual machines to communicate with each other. Combine that with the power of smart data and it's easy to make the most of waste."
Linder will be in Hall B6 at booth 251/350 during IFAT 2020.
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A close look at curbside recycling in 2020
The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, completed its '2020 State of Curbside Recycling Report.'
In recent years, concerns around material quality have grown among material recovery facility (MRF) operators, particularly as the industry has faced weaker market conditions.
"We know contamination has become a huge issue for material recovery facilities (MRFs)," says Scott Mouw, senior director of strategy and research at The Recycling Partnership. "We know MRFs are wrestling with bringing in cleaner material. One of the key ways to figure out that issue is to look at what's coming in on the trucks with inbound material."
Last year, The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, worked on developing its "2020 State of Curbside Recycling" report, which was released Feb. 13. One of the figures that the nonprofit tracked in its report was how many communities are knowledgeable about their inbound contamination rates. According to the "2020 State of Curbside Recycling" study, only about one-third of communities know this figure. Of that one-third of communities, Mouw says the average inbound contamination rate is 17 percent.
"This data tells us that MRFs and communities need to do a much better job talking about inbound contamination and analyzing that data," Mouw says. "If you don't know what that [number] is and don't know the nature of the inbound contamination, you can't do anything about it. But if more and more communities and MRFs work together, hopefully, we can get to a point where more than 75 percent of communities know their inbound contamination rates, and those communities will be in a better position to improve on material quality."
Inbound contamination was just one of the issues researched in The Recycling Partnership's "2020 State of Curbside Recycling" report. Mouw says the report findings are based on data and information from its 2019 State of Curbside survey sent out in July 2019, information from 49 Municipal Measurement Program reports, research from the nonprofit's West Coast Contamination Initiative, data from 28 grant programs it worked on as of November 2019 and more than 300 media stories.
Mouw says the nonprofit released a similar study in 2016 that looked at why curbside collection programs were strong in some communities and not in others. He says the "2020 State of Curbside Recycling" report updates some of the information from the 2016 report.
Mouw adds that conditions for municipal recycling have "really changed" since 2016.
"We are very aware that the collection side of curbside is important but that it's not the only part that matters, especially now that we have headwinds with end markets," he says. "We felt like we needed a more comprehensive view of curbside recycling as a system in the United States. [The 2020 report] is meant to be comprehensive on curbside systems, what challenges it's facing, how we overcome the challenges and plotting a path forward to improve curbside systems."
Takeaways from the report
The in-depth report offers insights on a variety of aspects of municipal recycling, including the basic dimensions of the U.S. curbside recycling system, curbside recycling program performances, the impact changing material values have on curbside programs, how community programs are reacting to challenges and ways to improve curbside recycling programs.
One figure The Recycling Partnership looked at in the study was verifying the number of communities that have truly eliminated their curbside recycling programs. In recent years, Mouw says the nonprofit has been monitoring news stories about closing curbside recycling programs. For this report, The Recycling Partnership reviewed these stories it found and verified with each community whether the curbside recycling program had closed. In total, Mouw says about 50 cities officially have eliminated curbside recycling programs since 2018. The report notes that more than 480,000 residents were affected by these changes.
"One of the reasons we did that work was there were some media reports that said, 'hundreds of programs have been eliminated,'" he says. "We just felt that that wasn't true. So, we decided to collect some data on this."
That full list of cities that ended curbside recycling since 2018 can be found in Appendix B of the "2020 State of Curbside Recycling" report.
According to The Recycling Partnership, some other takeaways from the report include:
more than 20 million tons of curbside recyclables are disposed of annually;
only half of Americans have automatic access to curbside recycling, and some who do have access do not participate in the programs; and
many communities are paying more to send materials to MRFs than to landfills, and most programs lack operating funds.
To address these issues, the report offers best practices for MRFs on improving curbside recycling programs in the communities they work with as well as a case study on the city of Sarasota's curbside recycling program.
"The report shows data and information on tried-and-true techniques to improve contamination," Mouw says. "One thing we would love to happen from this report is more MRFs becoming involved in their communities, not just assessing contamination but also acting on that information and doing things like cart tagging to make sure carts are tagged when there is contamination."
Click here for the full report.


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Train and Railway Accident Attorneys in Laurel, MD
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The United States is covered in railroads and commuter tracks. Although train and railway accidents are not as common as other types of motor vehicle accidents, this fact doesn't make them any less dangerous.
Many factors cause and influence rain and railway accidents, including human error, operator fatigue, mechanical failure, weather-related crashes, conductor distraction, items left on the track, derailments, excessive speeding, failure to maintain or repair tracks, and faulty signaling equipment.
If you or a loved one has been involved in a train or railway accident, contact McGowan & Cecil, LLC by calling (301) 761-2007. We are committed to helping victims get back on track and rebuild their lives.
Common Train-Related Injuries
Each type of train accident has the potential to cause injuries. Whether the train you are on derails or collides with another train or motor vehicle, you may suffer physical or emotional injuries.
Common train-related injuries include:
Fractured ribs
Leg injuries
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs)
Blunt trauma injuries
And other life-threatening injuries
If you have suffered any of these injuries, you may be entitled to compensation.
How Often Do Train or Railway Accidents Occur?
According to the Federal Railroad Administration, there were 1,972 train accidents with 3 fatalities and 57 injuries in 2019, and 1,519 train accidents with 1 fatality and 67 injuries in 2020.
These figures do not include train-pedestrian accidents, which frequently take place at unprotected railroad crossings.
Counting all railroad-related deaths and injuries, the National Safety Council notes 757 deaths and 5,479 nonfatal injuries in 2020.
Passengers, railroad workers, drivers, and pedestrians can all be involved in train and railway accidents, especially when train crossings are not clearly marked.
If you have been harmed, our Laurel train and railway attorneys are here to help. Call (301) 761-2007 today!
Recent Train and Railway Accidents
Although the number of train and railway accidents has been steadily decreasing since 2007, these kinds of accidents are not a thing of the past.
July 29, 2020: A freight train derailed and caught fire on a bridge in Tempe, Arizona. The flaming wreckage caused part of the bridge to collapse.
August 20, 2020: A car was crushed between two light rail trains in Baltimore, Maryland. The car's occupants, a 7-year-old boy and 30-year-old man, were taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, but the driver, a woman, died at the scene.
July 15, 2021: Rising floodwater caused a 96-car freight train to derail at approximately 60 mph on a quarter mile of Union Pacific Track between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Twelve cars derailed, and 6 of those cars tipped over and off the tracks. Three crew members were injured.
Train and railway accidents continue to take place worldwide, causing injuries, death, and destruction.
Who Is Responsible When Train or Railway Accident Occur?
Typically, the train operator or the rail company that owns the train can be held liable. However, a manufacturer may also be found liable if there is a manufacturing defect with either the train or the track.
In some situations, careless passenger vehicle drivers and pedestrians can also face liability, and city planners may even face liability for unprotected railroad crossings without adequate warning devices.
Unfortunately, inexperienced conductors, railroad employees, and the companies that employ them do not want to accept liability, which means recovering compensation after a train or railway accident can be difficult.
Steps to Take If Involved in a Train or Railway Accident
After a train or railway accident, you need to do everything you can to protect your rights. Usually, this is as simple as gathering evidence. Always prioritize your health and seek medical attention – and transportation – if you need it.
If you can, take the following steps while you wait for help to arrive:
Document what happened to you (write down the details before you forget)
Photograph the train and tracks near the incident
Get names, addresses, and phone numbers of any potential witnesses
Take note of the overall situation, such as anything on the tracks or any damaged or faulty equipment
Get medical attention as soon as possible (go to the doctor even if you do not feel hurt)
Contact an experienced personal injury lawyer, such as McGowan & Cecil, LLC
Why Hire Our Experienced Legal Team?
Railroad companies have a large and powerful group of attorneys working for them to minimize their liability and payouts to victims of train and railway accidents.
Nevertheless, McGowan & Cecil, LLC has the resources you need to compete with these corporate lawyers. We can conduct a thorough investigation of the incident and find evidence to validate your claims. As a result of our determination, we have recovered millions on behalf of accident victims like you.
Before you hire just "any" lawyer, ask them these questions:
Do you exclusively represent the injured?
Has your firm helped thousands of injured clients?
Has your firm obtained compensation of over a million dollars on behalf of a client?
At McGowan & Cecil, LLC, the answer to all of the questions above is YES. We have more than 100 years of collective experience, and we've represented thousands of injured clients over 2 decades, winning settlements and verdicts in excess of $1 million.
What Types of Damages Can You Recover?
With our help, you can recover compensation for:
Loss of earning capacity
Call us at (301) 761-2007 or contact us online to schedule a free consultation and learn more about how we can help you today!
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In July 2021, the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust was proud to be accepted as an acredited member of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC). This is the national membership organisation of leading medical health research charities.
AMRC membership is the hallmark of quality research funding. To be accepted into membership, the GKCCT has had to demonstrate that we follow the AMRC's rigorous standards in peer review, enabling us to ensure the research we fund is of the highest quality.
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To be accepted into membership, the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust is having to demonstrate that we follow the AMRC's rigorous standards in peer review, enabling us to ensure the research we fund is of the highest quality.
We have a published research strategy, a research advisory panel and have worked hard to meet a number of other requirements for membership as well.
Membership of the AMRC will also that funds raised by our fundraisers are able to go further.
The Charity Research Support Fund
Funding from AMRC members that is awarded via open competition is eligible for the Charity Research Support Fund (CRSF). The fund adds up to 19p to every charity pound invested in universities.
The AcoRD agreement ensures that AMRC members only pay the direct research costs of clinical research in the NHS. The Department of Health will meet all costs for local trial co-ordination and management, data collection, and regulatory fees.
This means in effect, that when the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust funds research as a member of the AMRC, our grant funds will go further than they otherwise would have done.
We want to make sure that every penny that we raise to go towards making a better future for children with cancer.


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There is a term for what results when two or more inventions combine to form a new invention -- technological convergence. Under the loosest definition, a 3-in-1 toaster oven coffee maker and frying pan would be a prime example. It's good for making breakfast in a rush, but normally convergence is reserved for emerging technologies, usually in the telecommunications field. Phone lines combined with computers led to the Internet. E-mail clients combined with cell phones, LCD displays and SMS messaging to create cell phones. Devices are being mashed together to create myriad hand-held portable gadgets.
As energy becomes more valuable, especially in these environmentally conscious times, manufacturers have sought new ways to power these convergent devices. Melding supplemental forms of energy production into conventional sources -- like rechargeable batteries -- seems to be the new hallmark of converging technology. One of those devices created in the midst of this new era is the Iqua VizorSUN.
The Iqua VizorSUN is a little hands-free Bluetooth car kit that, as its name suggests, clips neatly onto a car's sun visor. Its small size -- the slim device measures less than 6 inches (15.2 centimeters) wide and less than 4 inches (10.2 centimeters) deep and weighs less than 6 ounces (170 grams) -- means there's a lot of technology packed into a little box. Like other hands-free Bluetooth kits, it allows drivers to easily take calls that are rerouted from their cell phones to the VizorSUN. What makes this device unique is that it combines Bluetooth with renewable energy technology in the form of solar cells embedded in the VizorSUN's top.
Find out about the underlying technology behind the VizorSUN on the next page.
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If there was anything that came across loudest and clearest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was the message about emergence of China and India as powerful global economic engines. The different routes they adopted to path of growth needed no telling and was evident in the way they were represented; India almost entirely by the private sector and China by its public sector, beauracrats and politicians. It is encouraging that despite being such polar opposite politically, they are both marching ahead at an impressive pace. So any argument that blames governments as deterrents to growth will find itself challenged by China with its awesome scale in manufacturing and India with its promise of intellectual and labour capital along with a fast growing service industry. Together they are probably unbeatable and they allow the world to work, seamlessly, day and night.
Unlike India, where the reform process started only in the early 90s, China is ahead as it takes its place as the fourth largest economy displacing the UK.
How did these two underperforming, poor countries from the developing world become the center of attention of the entire world. One of the hallmarks of a success, as every MBA course will teach you, is turning your weakness into strength.. It is interesting how, in the case of China and India, their and disadvantage turned to their advantage.
None of us in India have forgotten several attempts made by the government to control our population. Thanks to our agrarian culture where it was important to have more hands to work on the farm and our religious belief about children being a gift of God, our population multiplied. And similarly with China. Today those numbers show up on every corporations marketing radar. As markets in the West get saturated and the population is ageing, companies are looking for growth towards Asia with China and India accounting for 33% of the total world population.
There is growing fear in the West of jobs moving East, and the growing importance of the region economically and politically. One outcome of that could be protectionism and while the West needs these markets for growth, China is already turning to its own domestic market so that it is not dependent on exports. These two countries are large enough to have scale in their own countries as urbanization and affluence grow..
Both countries offer much lower wage structures and lower manufacturing costs. Since bulk of the population lives in rural areas, as urbanization increases there will be an endless supply of relatively inexpensive source of labour.
Today, the West is facing zero or negative population growth rate. This means a declining labour force and the added burden of cost of growing population of pensioners and retired people. 60% of India's population is 25 and under- promising an ever growing numbers of those joining the labour pool. The same is true for China. However, recently there are concerns that their one child policy might lead to an ageing population with all the problems that accompany it. An ageing population only consumes whereas a young population contributes and consumes – an unbeatable combination.
For years in India we bemoaned the Indian education system where learning by rote was at a premium and the focus on numbers and science was high. Asian parents focus on the child's education and the money spent on it, often was a source of amusement in the West. Today this intellectual capital is in high demand in global markets. The number of engineers, computer programmers, science graduates coming out of India and China are driving world markets.
Most of us have lived with scarcity, beauracratic procedures and low incomes. Today all these serve us in good stead – human resource from these regions is hardy, they can do with less, work long hours, are hungry for a better life, are street smart, are resourceful and can thrive in any culture and adapt. With increasing globalisation, intercultural workforce is the new paradigm that needs a new work ethic which we can easily conform to.
The fastest growing mobile phone markets are in India and China. While the West struggles to update its old technology to, we can leapfrog to the latest- quicker and cheaper. Similarly Internet is growing fast with broadband.
There are lessons here not just for other countries but also for businesses in Asia. Countries have done it in the past, Singapore a small island with not much natural resources or labour made Singapore a financial and technological hub for Asia. Japan another small island, became the electronic goods provider to the world and Ireland saw its GDP soar with IT outsourcing.
Given the global environment, what are some of the things that hitherto you considered your weakness and perhaps can now become your big strength.


This poster looks very much like the offerings for the previous six Episodes, making The Force Awakens feel even more directly connected to the saga. It gives you a look at characters new and old (Luke Skywalker is still noticeably absent), the military might of both the Resistance and the First Order, and even Starkiller Base, a former ice planet transformed into a massive weapon — as far as that last bit goes, am I the only one who thinks it's odd that it is on the "good" side of the poster? It could be just a matter of graphic design, but the conspiracy theorist in me is curious.
And while the full trailer doesn't debut until halftime of Monday Night Football tonight, there are these three snippets of footage to keep you occupied in the meantime. You see new additions Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), and not much else, but with that haunting score, this still sends shivers up my spine.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens everywhere December 18. Check out the clips below.


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Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella 2020
By Gabrielle Moreira
Rage Against the Machine will reunite at Coachella 2020
Funk metal group Rage Against the Machine will reunite in 2020 to play both weekends of Coachella and some shows in the southwestern U.S.
LOS ANGELES - Rage Against the Machine will reunite for both weekends of Coachella and three shows in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
The band, which recently launched an Instagram account, shared the news with a photo of the Chilean protests alongside show dates in March and April.
Rage Against the Machine formed in 1991 in Los Angeles. The funk metal band consists of frontman Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk.
The group played the first Coachella in 1999 and broke up in 2000. The band reunited a few times after that, with the last show at L.A. Rising in July 2011.


Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has been pushing the boundaries and shaping the idea of perfection, resulting in instantly recognisable and iconic motor cars. The latest addition to the product range is Black Badge. A new permanent model line, Black Badge continues the evolution of the brand, appealing to customers outside the traditional audience that one might associate with Rolls-Royce.
Rolls-Royce tasked Kineo with the challenge of producing a course for Rolls-Royce dealers that would match or exceed the previous Dawn WBT and would reflect the darker, more dynamic nature of Black Badge. Given how well the Dawn dealer training had been received within the Rolls-Royce dealer network, the bar was set high for us to exceed expectations.
Dealers had already seen the striking Black Badge launch video and been given detailed information on the model specification. Now they needed to be able to recognise potential Black Badge customers, identify unique features and benefits of Black Badge cars and understand the brand story and proposition to sell it with confidence. Short on time, dealers demand a compact, practical but highly engaging learning experience. And that's where Kineo came in.
The objective was to provide dealers with an understanding of the Black Badge brand and the ability to identify potential Black Badge customers. Given the subtlety of message, it was essential that dealers were provided with the correct nuance which would enable them to identify whether customers might be interested in Black Badge, without diminishing their potential interest in other Rolls-Royce motor cars. The approach could not be one of absolutes – right or wrong – but needed to be one of potential preferences.
The solution needed to reflect the bolder, more assertive nature of the car itself and make a powerful impact. So we used cutting-edge interactive video technology to create a learning experience that was more engaging and immersive than anything Rolls-Royce had delivered to its dealers before. Combining the distinct Black Badge brand and stunning marketing material under the overarching Rolls-Royce brand, enabled us to deliver a solution that felt both familiar and different to Rolls-Royce dealers.
Because the focus of the elearning is to provide learners with Black Badge brand awareness and excitement to sell the car to prospective customers, video and audio were the perfect media to convey that learning. We seamlessly integrated new footage with the Black Badge launch video and matched the whole to the Rolls-Royce brand CI to maintain the luxury brand look and feel.
The learning has three distinct aspects enabling the learner to engage and review the learning.
Learners access key learning messages by selecting a variety of hotspots positioned along the timeline of an overarching video. Each hotspot is revealed to the learner at the relevant point on the video. This interactive content was presented in a variety of ways, including video clips of an expert describing and pointing out features of the car, short and snappy pieces of text with supporting graphics and formative questions to dispel misconceptions.
This gamified, scenario based quiz requires dealers to qualify two customers who walk into their dealership. If they correctly identify a customer, they then have to try and make a sale by explaining the brand story and features of the car as well as answering questions from the customer. It's a rich multi-media experience, interspersed with questions that include high-end video of the customers exploring the car overlaid with audio narration.
Lastly, there's a supporting library of further information on Black Badge. It's available on the menu at all times, enabling it to be accessed either during the learning experience or as a refresher whenever dealers need it.
Rolls-Royce were delighted with our sleek and sophisticated solution, having surpassed the high bar previously set by our elearning solution for Dawn. Not only are they pleased with the solution, but also with the level of service Kineo was able to provide and our ability to deliver the project on time, and within budget.
Working with you on Black Badge was a pleasure. Right from the kick-off meeting back in April it was clear to us that you understood the brand, the Black Badge concept and what we needed to achieve with the WBT, all of which definitely helped expedite progress on the project. As you know we're delighted with the finished product and confident that it will receive similar accolades to those received with the Dawn WBT. Thank you again for all your hard work and dedication on our behalf.