Hauler FCC Environmental Services has been awarded a $4.25 million grant from The Recycling Partnership (TRP) to improve film and flexible plastics recovery at its materials recovery facility (MRF) in Houston, representing TRP's largest single grant to a MRF.

In an active year for legislation aimed at reducing plastic pollution and waste, recycling stakeholders have a bevy of lessons to draw from, even with bills that have come under attack or didn't quite pass.

California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has opened the public comment period for its latest draft of regulations for the state's extended producer responsibility law for packaging, which have drawn criticism from industry stakeholders.

In an active year for legislation aimed at reducing plastic pollution and waste, recycling stakeholders have a bevy of lessons to draw from, even with bills that have come under attack or didn't quite pass.

RPET producer Circularix has completed commercial startup of its second food-grade pelletizing facility, located in Ocala, Florida, and announced it will expand capacity at its flagship site in Hatfield, Pennsylvania

Since its founding in 2018, the Global Plastic Action Partnership, part of the World Economic Forum, has worked to address plastic pollution in developing countries, creating a network of partnerships across Latin America, Asia and Africa.

California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has opened the public comment period for its latest draft of regulations for the state's extended producer responsibility law for packaging, which have drawn criticism from industry stakeholders.

Several global brand owners have joined forces to create the US Flexible Film Initiative (USFFI), a nonprofit membership organization helping to advance scalable solutions to recycle flexible plastic packaging.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers has added new packaging components to its eligibility criteria for Preferred Design Recognition, along with a new tool to simplify the submission process.

Technology company Ingram Micro focused on the impact of the October phaseout of the Windows 10 operating system as well as artificial intelligence during its most recent investor call.