A Canadian company's bottle-to-bottle recycling operation gets a boost, and a recyclable oxygen-barrier film is developed for food packaging. Marker potential: Marker technologies won't be a silver bullet to boosting recycling rates, but fluorescent pigments and digital watermarks could help protect the quality of recovered plastics, according to an article at canadianpackaging.com. The report is based on an interview with...

Readers last month gravitated toward negative news, with the largest number of clicks going to stories about a fake R2 certificate, a 15-month prison sentence and industry bankruptcies. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | SERI: Doctored R2 certificate submitted in attempt to win contract Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI)...

Australia's largest city considers curbside e-scrap pickups, and a Hong Kong court sentences a man to jail for e-scrap storage law violations. Australia: Sydney is floating the idea of launching weekly curbside e-scrap collections, according to The Daily Telegraph. Details of the plan, part of wider disposal-reduction efforts, are still being explored. Hong Kong: A man has been sentenced to...

An Amazon personal assistant device is graded on its repairability, and a refurbished version of Samsung's notorious overheating phone returns to the market in South Korea. Rising from the ashes: Samsung is selling refurbished versions of the notorious Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea, and they're priced about 30 percent less than the original Note 7 sold for, according to...

Chesapeake Paper Systems of Baltimore; Rogue Shred of White City, Ore.; Secure Records Management Systems of Sanford, Maine; Secure Shredding and Recycling of Baton Rouge, La.; Super Save Shredding of Surrey, British Columbia and The Shredding Company of Walkersville, Md. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.      Also, Guardian Data Destruction of South...

Developments tied to China's ongoing import crackdown grabbed readers' attention last month. Other popular stories included a look at Ziploc's curbside hopes and an analysis of bale yield trends. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | China mulls import action beyond National Sword The future of recovered materials exports to...

An industrial products manufacturer using recycled plastics receives an investment, and an alcohol brand will increase the recyclability of its packaging. End-user investment: The Closed Loop Fund will invest in an manufacturer using 100 percent recycled plastics as its feedstock. According to a press release, Indigo Composites, a manufacturer of composite railway crossties and grade crossings, will use the investment...

A state-chartered fund involving public and private interests is helping expand and improve recycling in Connecticut. The RecycleCT Foundation provides funding for efforts to boost recycling, according to a discussion of the program in a recent webinar. In addition to funding nearly two dozen school projects and innovation efforts, the Foundation has launched the What’s In, What’s Out program to...

A Waste Management leader's thoughts on contamination in the material stream and the possibility of a ban on imports of recycled materials into China drew our readers' clicks last month. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | WM leader says contamination is ‘a slow ship to turn’ The recycling chief...

A county of more than 700,000 residents cuts glass from its curbside recycling program, and Maryland's governor reverses the state's zero waste rules. California funding: Recycling businesses in El Dorado County, Calif. will be eligible for funding assistance, as the county was recently designated as the state's 39th recycling market development zone. In a press release, the California Department of...