Clothing and shoe company Timberland talks about its plan to use plastic recovered from the streets of Haiti, and The Onion takes a satirical look at the ocean plastics problem. Green gear: More details have come out about Timberland's plan to make products from recycled plastic bottles collected in the streets of Haiti. TriplePundit details the collaboration between Timberland and...

Some lawmakers say it's time to update Pennsylvania's 30-year-old recycling law, and an Indiana elementary school wins the Recycle-Bowl competition. Keystone State recycling: Under Pennsylvania's 29-year-old recycling law, communities with fewer than 5,000 residents aren't required to provide curbside recycling service, but larger cities are. According to Triblive.com, as a landfill tipping fee that helps fund recycling programs gets close...

A former U.S. e-scrap executive pleads not guilty to federal charges related to business practices, and an infamous scrap site in Ghana grabs more headlines. Safer processing: The German government will help build an e-scrap processing facility in the Agbogbloshie area of Accra, Ghana. According to the Deutsche Welle newspaper, the government unveiled a $21.5 million plan for a recycling...

A Canadian community removes EPS from its curbside recycling program, and Greenpeace offers the soda industry a big thorn and a little rose over its plastic usage. Big blaze: A truck crash led to a massive warehouse fire at a plastics recycling facility in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. According to the Whittier Daily News, the March 13 five-alarm fire at Multi-Link...

A new MRF is making some money and extending the life of a landfill, and the European Union's elected body approves aggressive recycling targets. Successful MRF: A newly built MRF in the Florida Panhandle is recovering 85 percent of incoming materials and is making a little money, according to the Pensacola News Journal. The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority was built...

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Consumers in China hold onto their old mobile phones for an average of two years after replacing them, and flame retardants in e-plastics show up in recycled products. China: Less than 10 percent of mobile phones no longer in use are recycled by Chinese citizens each year. Recycling International writes about new statistics from the country's Ministry of Industry and...

Washington's collection numbers continue their downward trend, and curbside e-scrap collection comes to an end in a South Carolina community. Collection numbers: Washington state collected more than 2.3 million pounds of electronics for recycling in February. According to the latest report from the state's E-Cycle Washington program, the combined January and February collection weights are 80.6 percent of what was...

Nearly 1,700 plastics recycling industry professionals converged on New Orleans last week for the 12th annual Plastics Recycling conference. Days of presentations and discussions, deal-making and networking afforded ample photographic opportunities, and New Orleans-based Riverview Photography was there to capture the action. The slideshow below offers a collection of photos from the week. Hover over a photo to bring up...

China's border crackdown creates a struggle for survival among legitimate recycling companies, and Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water uses more rPET. Scrappers struggle: China's border crackdown on illegal imports of scrap plastics has led to greater survival pressure for some legal recycling companies. According to an update from ChinaReplas, businesses in the Guangdong province are feeling the impact of more inspections,...