## NewsBits
_By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling_
Chemical company **BASF and the Seattle Mariners** handed out [10,000 bags of peanuts housed in a 100-percent compostable plastic snack bags](http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/game-changing-breakthrough-to-make-snack-packaging-more-sustainable-1697122.htm) at last night's game versus the Boston Red Sox. The team, which is on track to divert 85 percent of its waste stream from landfills (up from 12 percent in 2006), says that compostable snack bags are a big piece of reaching its self-imposed 90-percent diversion goal. "All of our service ware is already compostable, but snack food bags have been one of the biggest barriers preventing us from getting to our goal," said Mariners VP of Operations, Scott Jenkins. "Flexible packaging made with BASF biopolymers could represent the holy grail of greening for our waste stream." The ballpark's composting program was the subject of a two articles (available [here](http://www.resource-recycling.com/images/SafecoPartOne.pdf) and [here](http://www.resource-recycling.com/images/ddt_0112rr.pdf)) in _Resource Recycling_.
As was [announced earlier this year](http://resource-recycling.com/node/2933), **Alcoa is now sole owner of Evermore Recycling**, as of Aug. 31. The used beverage container (UBC) buying operation had been a joint venture with Novelis before that company decided to go it alone in procuring UBCs. According to Alcoa, Evermore Recycling is now a part of Alcoa's Global Packaging group and will continue to be based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Just in time for school starting up again, [_Earth911.com_](http://earth911.com/) has posted a series of **solved recycling mysteries**, including how to [recycle deodorant tubes](http://earth911.com/news/2012/09/04/recycling-deodorant-tubes/) and [toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes](http://earth911.com/news/2012/08/30/recycling-toothbrushes-and-toothpaste-tubes/). Both include recycling firm [Terracycle](http://www.terracycle.com/en-US/)'s Brigades, where participating schools can raise money by shipping (postage pre-paid) boxes of the stuff to the company for processing.
AT&T has [introduced](http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=23249&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=35275) a line of USB charging units and cables with housings **made from 30-percent recycled post-consumer plastic**. The devices are Energy Star 5 rated and draw minimal power when not in use.
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