Lawmakers support a landfill fee that funds recycling in one state, and an Arkansas community sees its contamination rate settle after multiple years of dramatic increases. Contamination flat: The municipal recycling program in the Little Rock, Ark. area has been plagued with high contamination that has risen sharply in recent years. But the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports contamination has plateaued at...

Observers notice a change in Apple's position on the right-to-repair movement, and the U.S. military spends $80 million to develop a new kind of computer chip. Here to stay: The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly, and according to some experts, that trend is expected to accelerate. Environmental Leader writes about an IoT-focused discussion at its conference this month,...

American Shredding of Salt Lake City; ATI SecureDocs of Houston; Loss Protection & Investigations of Fresno, Calif.; Rip n Shred of Edmonton, Alberta and Stacks of Topeka, Kan. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.   Visit our archive to view previous editions of the scorecard.  

A Hawaii county bans polystyrene food-service packaging, and a Chinese operation is busted for some truly unsanitary recycling activities. Future feedstock: Dow Chemical has completed construction of a new virgin plastics plant in Houston. The Houston Chronicle reports the facility will have an annual production capacity of more than 440,000 tons, and its plastics will be used to make packaging...

This story originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Has the industry made real progress on the CRT issue? It’s tough to say. Certainly, dialogue has been plentiful, stakeholders have pushed for adjustments in state programs, and technologies to more cost-effectively handle glass have been proposed – and...

A co-founder of the Closed Loop Fund weighs in on the recycling impact of the proposed U.S. EPA budget cuts, and U.K. exporters say China's National Sword policy is complicating plastic film shipments. Budgetary impact: In an opinion piece for The Hill, Ron Gonen, co-founder of the Closed Loop Fund, describes several ways in which the proposed U.S. EPA cuts...

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Absolute Shredding of Windsor, Colo.; Advanced Information Management of Springdale, Ark.; Arkansas Records Management of Hot Springs, Ark.; CI Information Management of Kennewick, Wash.; CLI Document Destruction of Norwalk, Ohio; COR365 Information Solutions of Winston-Salem, N.C.; Green Team Shred-Safe of Pooraka, South Australia, Australia; Highland Shredding of Woburn, Mass.; In Confidence P/L of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Kodiak Information Management...

A Chinese e-scrap company breaks into the U.S. market, and collections continue to trend downward in the Evergreen State. Dirty recycling challenge: Well, this is a whole new thing in the Internet of Things: electronics being incorporated into adult diapers. Startup company ElderSens is releasing a system that will include sensors in adult diapers notifying care staff via text messages...

Readers were drawn to news about the pain recovered plastics exporters are feeling from China's National Sword campaign. They also read about how technology can boost bale quality. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | How National Sword is upending exports China’s four-month-old import action has stalled shipments of some...