Thousands of additional recycling bins are coming to public spaces, and lab materials are getting a second life. Grant announcement: Keep America Beautiful and the Coca-Cola Foundation announced they will provide 62 grants to communities in 30 states for public recycling bins. The program will fund more than 4,500 bins this year. Plastic fire: Officials are investigating a two-alarm fire...

An audit report examines the extended producer responsibility program in British Columbia, and textiles recycling comes to the curb in one Texas city. EPR in B.C.: The auditor general of British Columbia, Canada has written a report on the extended producer responsibility program in the province. Overall, the report found the program to be working well but did identify five...

This story originally appeared in the August 2016 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. All recycling professionals know it takes quite a few hands to transform collected material to new products. When it comes to plastics recycling, moving material through the chain is a particularly technical process – and equipment innovations are always...

Insurance fraud at an e-scrap operator, federal action to close an electronics reuse company and news on a CRT processor are among the stories that captured readers’ attention last month. 1 | Insurance fraud could land e-scrap operator behind bars The owner of a New Jersey electronics recycling company could spend three years in prison for insurance fraud. 2 |...

The Buffalo Bills make a drive for recycling, and Samsung is getting more backlash over its handling of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. More Samsung fallout: Greenpeace is blasting Samsung over its lack of transparency on what will happen to Galaxy Note 7 phones. Samsung hasn't released specifics on how it will dispose of the defective phones and Greenpeace says...

Industry opinions on the TPP trade deal and PepsiCo’s recyclability goals are among the stories that captured Plastics Recycling Update readers’ attention in October. 1 | Industry veterans buy Entropex with plans to rebrand The assets from shuttered plastics reclaimer Entropex will be purchased by the founders of two major Canadian recycling companies. 2 | Would TPP trade deal boost...

Chicago residents are closer to paying bag fees, and plastics recycling equipment innovations were on display at Germany's K show. A to Z at K: Equipment makers display their latest plastics recycling technologies every three years at the K trade show. Plastics Recycling Update: Technology Edition, a free monthly e-newsletter, recently featured the advancements. Budget, step one: The proposed budget...

A paper-products maker shifts from newsprint to recycled lightweight linerboard at a Quebec mill, and a hauler serving multi-family housing is caught dumping recyclable materials into the garbage. From newsprint to linerboard: Montreal-based Kruger Inc. says it is on pace to begin producing 400,000 tons per year of all-recycled lightweight linerboard by May 2017. The $188 million project at its...

An interview with the leader of a major waste hauler and details on the demise of a mixed-waste facility are among the headlines that captured the attention of readers last month. 1 | Walmart says it's 'our job' to simplify recycling An executive from the world's largest retailer says the company is aiming to give suppliers concrete details in its...

A facility near London is using a new baffled oscillation technology to separate PP and PE in a water tank, and a study says more rPET could be used in hot-fill containers. The whys of difficult-to-recycle plastics: An article in Chemical and Engineering News takes an in-depth look at why producers make multi-layered plastic packaging that is unlikely to be...