This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   It was March 2019, and after years of planning, research, and engineering, the first test bales destined to become a new commodity called rFlex were rolling off the line at TotalRecycle, a large single-stream materials recovery facility (MRF) in...

This article appeared in the September 2020 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. It was March 2019, and after years of planning, research, and engineering, the first test bales destined to become a new commodity called rFlex were rolling off the line at TotalRecycle, a large single-stream materials recovery facility (MRF) in eastern Pennsylvania. These bales...