A decrease in demand for pizza boxes could disrupt a key OCC end market, according to a recently released report by Rabobank, a Dutch bank and financial service company.

Researchers at Texas A&M University say they're developing a more efficient way to recycle rare earth elements from e-scrap with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Stolen devices are a bigger cause of data loss than ransomware and stolen credentials, the response to which could lead to the destruction of reusable devices, according to a report from Blancco Technology Group.

Cleanfarms, a Canadian agricultural recycling stewardship group, recovered and recycled over 22 million pounds of agricultural plastics in 2024, according to a recently released annual report outlining the organization's achievements in the last year. 

Officials in Malaysia and Thailand seized containers with hundreds of tons of e-scrap illegally imported from the United States earlier this month after tips from the U.S. nonprofit Basel Action Network.

Two major manufacturers of recycled paper products are closing paper mills in Georgia and Texas, the companies announced earlier this month, though it's uncertain whether the facilities in question are using recycled fiber. 

Casella Waste Services has reopened its Willimantic MRF in Windham, Connecticut, after renovations to increase capacity and provide more energy-efficient recycling processing.

Most Americans have access to a store drop-off site for film plastics, according to a new study by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.  

Google X and Dow Chemical are collaborating to develop an artificial intelligence sorting system capable of identifying film plastics and mixed materials, they announced at a conference in April.

The mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia, announced a new MRF with artificial intelligence-powered sorting. Meanwhile, Republic Services announced a new facility near St. Louis, Missouri, and WM completed improvements to an MRF in Colorado Springs, Colorado.