This story originally appeared in the November 2017 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. For U.S. plastic film recycling stakeholders, nothing comes easy. The material is not generally accepted in curbside programs because it can gum up equipment at materials recovery facilities (MRFs), and in the commercial realm, it has sometimes been overlooked as generators...

This story originally appeared in the June 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   American retail darlings are closing at a rapid rate. In the last year alone, Macy’s, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Radio Shack, H.H. Gregg, and Sports Authority each closed more than 75 U.S. locations. Even Walmart has closed more than 250...