A recycled polyester plant expands its South Carolina operations, and a filament recycling startup will pitch its venture to business tycoon Richard Branson. Final round: ReDeTec, a filament recycling startup, is one of three finalists in the 2017 Extreme Tech Challenge, MaiTai Global announced this month. ReDeTec and its fellow finalists now head to Necker Island in the Caribbean Sea...

The U.S. officially withdraws from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and an Oklahoma community struggles with high rates of contamination in curbside carts. Intelligent design: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation released a design guide that aims to draw awareness to the circular economy. In a press release, the foundation noted that the shift to a circular economy is "complex and cannot be achieved...

LED lights could offer a growing source of valuable metals, and current spending offers a look at the products that could dominate the waste stream in the future.No more CRTs: The Health Department Recycle Center in Canton, Ohio will no longer accept CRTs beginning next week, according to the Canton Repository. Citing increased disposal costs, the recycling center said residents...

Scotland authorities fine a man for attempting to export e-scrap to Nigeria, and Hong Kong will charge fees to electronics importers to pay for end-of-life recycling services.Scotland: A man was prosecuted and fined for attempting to export electronic scrap to Nigeria, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Henry Chukwu of Glasgow was fined 675 British Pounds (about $827) for...

Colt Recycling Southeast of Hickory, N.C. has achieved the R2:2013, OHSAS 18001:2007 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications. File Shred of Glastonbury, Conn.; Secure Destruction Service of Huntsville, Ala.; and Sims Recycling Solutions of LaVergne, Tenn. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives. Visit our archive to view previous editions of the scorecard.   

Singapore teaches some very young children how to recycle, and a U.K. group will collect hot-fill paper cups made with recyclability in mind. Singapore: This city-state of 5.4 million people is targeting recycling education at a particularly young audience: pre-schoolers. Today Online reports some preschool children in the island's southwest district will be taught to identify and sort recyclable materials....

A Michigan facility has another record-setting year for the volume of recyclable materials it sends to market, and Denver gets some bad news about its recycling rate. Mayor lends a hand: Utah's newest city got some help with its first official recycling collection early this month, when Mayor Jeff Silvestrini assisted the Wasatch Front Waste & Recycling District in collecting...

Cities take steps to ban certain plastic products, and an expert clears up some common misconceptions about recycling of everyday materials. Just the facts: Liz Swafford, a recycling and education program coordinator in Georgia, addressed some common myths about recycling in a column for The Daily Citizen. Swafford shattered the notion that electronics, bottle caps, containers with labels, pizza boxes...

Citadel Information Management of Westmont, Ill.; Shred Northwest of Gresham, Ore.; and UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.Also, Reclamere of Tyrone, Pa. has renewed its NAID certification for hard drive sanitization as well as for physical destruction of hard drives.   Visit our archive to view previous...

An Arizona for-profit business shares electronics disassembly tips with a local nonprofit group, and a Minnesota county boosts fees it charges individuals who drop off display devices.Knowledge sharing: An Arizona electronics recycling and hard drive destruction company shared some e-scrap disassembly knowledge with the nonprofit group Worldcare, reports Tucson News Now. Suburban Miners shared information with Worldcare, a humanitarian relief...