Stories on the disposition of CRT glass in California and a legal battle over a battery fire drew our readers' attention last month. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | Landfilling CRT glass becomes the norm in California Firms active in California’s electronics recycling program increasingly turned to landfill disposal for...

Updates to the R2 standard continue to be developed, and a large e-scrap processing facility is under construction in South Australia. R2 revisions: Work is continuing on an update to the e-scrap processor certification managed by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI). The group announced last week that its Technical Advisory Committee agreed on a number of points to include in...

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Stories about China's crackdown on illegal plastic imports and a new LDPE recycling facility in Texas attracted readers' clicks in March. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | Arrests and delays mark first weeks of ‘second Green Fence’ China’s recent crackdown on scrap imports has exposed smuggling operations, led to...

Drones patrol Britain’s beaches in search of shoreline plastics, and prices rise in the U.S. for recovered HDPE and PET. Fishing for litter: Waste Free Oceans has been researching the use of fishing boats to collect plastic litter in rivers, bays and oceans. For example, fishing boat owners are encouraged to trawl for litter as they move to and from...

Export uncertainty and the potential pain at the EPA from President Trump's proposed spending cuts grabbed our readers' attention last month. The list below shows our top stories last month in terms of unique page views. 1 | Arrests and delays mark first weeks of ‘second Green Fence’ China’s recent crackdown on scrap material imports has exposed smuggling operations, led...

Chicago wants to better educate residents of a neighborhood posting a 6 percent diversion rate, and two reports calls on Michigan lawmakers to take steps to boost recycling. Who's who: A day-long workshop covering the possibility of a mandatory policy covering packaging recovery in California was attended by a substantial cross section of industry stakeholders. According to a list of...

A Dow executive discusses end-market potential for recovered flexible films, and an article explores the challenges of recovering plastics from toys. Multi-layer flexible packaging: An official with Dow Chemical Co. spoke with Packaging Digest about realistic options for end markets for recovered flexible films, noting that true closed loop recycling is unlikely but other markets could exist. Jeff Wooster, global...

An app dubbed Mr. WEEE aims to educate the Egyptian public on how to recycle electronics, and customs officials use X-ray machines to check imports into China. Second chance: Samsung has announced it will begin selling refurbished models of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, infamous for its spontaneously combusting battery that led to product recalls. Reuters reports the electronics manufacturer...

A process of recycling expanded polystyrene for use as a filter medium was the subject of a recent TED talk. But the presenter was a bit younger than your typical plastics recycling executive. Ashton Cofer, one of four teens from Ohio who developed the patent-pending process, spoke during a six-minute presentation published online this month. He presented at a December 2016...