A small Midwest town is slated to welcome a plastics-to-fuel facility converting up to 100,000 tons of mixed plastics per year into gasoline and diesel fuels. Renewable Energy Solutions (RES) Polyflow in late December announced Ashley, Ind., population 1,000, as the location of its first commercial-scale facility, which will cost roughly $90 million to construct.  Once complete, the facility will...

Developments over the past 12 months certainly kept recycling professionals on their toes. Falling commodity prices, criticism of recycling's viability, debate over processing techniques and the ever-evolving ton all confronted recycling leaders – and gave our editorial staff plenty to cover. Below, see the top 10 stories of the year, in terms of page views. 1 | Recycling is not...

A bill that would reshape New Jersey's e-scrap program was passed late last week by members of the state's General Assembly.The vote of 46-18 sets up a January vote in the Senate on a corresponding version of the legislation. As E-Scrap News reported earlier this month, the bill would maintain collection quotas for manufacturers and require them to pay for...

Bloomberg takes readers on a tour of the Chinese town of Guiyu as it looks to formalize electronics recycling, and flooding in parts of India has complicated e-scrap efforts. Amazon is urging its customers in the U.K. to immediately recycle any "hoverboards" they purchased from the site, saying they will be refunded within days. The request comes after government officials...

Procter & Gamble continues to work toward an ambitious recycled plastic target as well as packaging-reduction and recyclability goals. The international consumer goods company reports using 32,200 tons of post-consumer resin in packaging during the 2014-15 fiscal year. That was 12 percent more than Procter & Gamble (P&G) used in 2010. Using 2010's recycled content usage as a baseline, P&G's...

A MRF worker saves the life of a kitten, and the trend of container lightweighting comes to glass. We've heard a lot about plastic container lightweighting, but U.K. company Adnams of Southwold and Owens-Illinois have developed a lighter, branded glass beer bottle, according FDbusiness.com. At 280 grams, the bottle is lighter than than a lightweighted bottle the companies launched in...

Telecommunications giant Comcast has agreed to pay the state of California a hefty sum for illegally disposing of e-scrap and other devices over the past decade and for failing to protect customer information. The cable TV and Internet provider reached a $25.95 million settlement with the California Attorney General and Alameda County District Attorney. If approved by a court, some...

About 4 percent of post-consumer carpet was recycled in 2014, down slightly from the year before, according to an industry report. The annual report from Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) noted an estimated 124 million pounds of post-consumer carpet was recycled in 2014. That number excludes carpet as alternative fuel, waste-to-energy or feedstock at cement kilns. The number was down...

New Jersey lawmakers will decide today whether to move a bill that would beef up the state's e-scrap program out of committee and onto the General Assembly floor for a vote.The eight-member Assembly Appropriations Committee is expected to convene this afternoon to discuss the merits of Assembly Bill 4763 (A4763). The Association of New Jersey Recyclers (ANJR) has called on...

Axion International, a publicly traded recycled products company based in Zanesville, Ohio, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Axion, which manufactures construction materials from both post-industrial and post-consumer plastics, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware court on Dec. 2, court records show. The company's shares are traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) realm, meaning trading occurs without supervision of...