Hundreds of restaurant owners in New York City are mobilizing to try to block Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging. In June, the ban was formally submitted to New York's City Council, where it stands a chance of passing, according to some reports.  A recent press release from Restaurant Action Alliance NYC, however, states that a...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is telling New York City residents to "Recycle Everything," in an attempt to jump-start recovery rates in the Big Apple in his last year in office. With a new "Recycle Everything" ad campaign in tow, Mayor Bloomberg this week announced a number of recycling-related goals and program expansions including increasing the city's overall recycling rate and expanding...

Carton recycling is now available in 45 states nationwide, according to the Carton Council. The manufacturing trade group announced that Alabama has become the most recent state to join the growing list after the state's Dothan City municipality added cartons to its recycling program. Municipalities in 19 states have introduced carton recycling programs in the last three years, and the...

While pressure-sensitive labels can be challenging to remove from plastic bottles in the recycling stream, one company appears to have come up with a solution. The Kennedy Group's PureVue label was recognized last month by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) for exceeding the requirements of the group's APR’s Guidance Document for Pressure Sensitive Labels. The labels, tests have...

Congress may again attempt to create new regulations covering the disposal and recycling of used electronics, with the reintroduction of the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act (RERA). The legislation, an earlier version of which was introduced in the 112th Congress but never moved out of committee, would prevent used electronics from being sent to developing countries unless they were found to be in...

MBA Polymers, a major manufacturer of recycled plastics, has announced it is reorganizing operations and bringing more of its future plastics production to the United States. Ironically, the first step in that shift will be shuttering the company's lone U.S. facility, the corporate headquarters located in Richmond, California. "It does seem counter-intuitive that we would be closing Richmond at the...

In an interview with E-Scrap News, an executive at Arrow Value Recovery says the company will complete its global implementation of the e-Stewards standard at all of its facilities by 2015, and a spokesperson offers new insight on the special circumstances involved in certifying the company’s many locations. For the past three years, Arrow Electronics has aggressively entered the IT...

The Society of the Plastics Industry hosted a webinar on July 2 to address some ongoing questions about China's Operation Green Fence enforcement operation. The panel of presenters which included Kathy Xuan of PARC Corp., Dr. Saurabh Naik of IEI, Dave Kaplan of Maine Plastics and Mike Biddle of MBA Polymers presented an overview of how Green Fence had affected...

Multinational electronic components supplier Arrow Electronics has reached a three-year agreement with the Basel Action Network to certify all of Arrow's electronics recycling and IT asset recovery operations worldwide to the e-Stewards standard. The pilot program makes Arrow the first company with locations on multiple continents to bring the certification to all its operations. The manufacturer has facilities in North...

U.K.-based Nulife Glass has opened its first North American facility in New York State to tackle CRT processing and recycling. The Nulife location, 40 miles south of Buffalo in Dunkirk, separates panel and funnel glass, and uses a proprietary high-temperature furnace system to extract the lead found in CRT glass. The company then sells that material to battery manufacturers, and...