A Spanish plastics research institute has begun work on two recycling initiatives. One effort will target floating ocean plastics, and the other will recycle PE and EPS generated by businesses. Valencia, Spain-based AIMPLAS will coordinate both European Union-supported projects. Marine plastics project A new effort in Spain will fish plastics out of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea and study...

TerraCycle is a high-profile company that gets a lot of press, but because it's a private business, much has been unknown about its operations and income. A new financial filing provides details on how it manages post-consumer plastics, including which major reclaimer it relies on and where it sells recovered resins. A Trenton, N.J.-based company specializing in managing a slew...

Nine robots and seven optical sorters will operate at a mixed-waste processing facility coming to South Carolina. Meanwhile, a separate large mixed-waste MRF is progressing in Maine. RePower South project Eugene, Ore.-based recycling equipment company Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) announced it will provide equipment for the Berkeley County Recycling and Recovery Facility, under construction in Moncks Corner, S.C. When it...

New York City is moving forward with a plan to shift the financial burden of garbage collection from taxpayers to ratepayers. The Big Apple has hired consulting and research firm Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) to study options for a pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) billing and collection service structure. America's largest city uses tax revenues to pay to collect and ship garbage out...

TerraCycle is a high-profile company that gets a lot of press, but because it's a private business, much has been unknown about its operations and income. A new financial filing provides details. A Trenton, N.J.-based company specializing in managing a slew of hard-to-recycle materials, TerraCycle recently submitted financial information to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), so it could...

According to one product manufacturer's analysis, HDPE can be shredded, melted and molded into products 10 times before its quality is compromised. Dutch garbage and recyclables receptacle maker ESE World recently studied the number of times it could mechanically recycle the plastic without a significant loss of quality. Canadian Packaging reported on the test, which was led by ESE plastics...

A new melt filter from Ettlinger is designed for handling heavily contaminated plastic loads and achieving high throughputs. The German company's ERF350 can remove foreign particles, including paper, aluminum, wood, elastomers or high-melting polymer composites containing up to 18 percent contaminants. That's consistent with all ERF models. The difference in the ERF350 is the fact it's capable of a throughput...

Credit: NothingIsEverything/Shutterstock Legislation advancing in the state of Washington bans the sale of electronics with permanently affixed or otherwise difficult-to-remove batteries. First covered by Vice.com's Motherboard, House Bill 2279 is one of more than a dozen right-to-repair bills that have been introduced across the country during current state legislative sessions. Like the others, it requires OEMs to provide information, tools...

Credit: donvictorio/Shutterstock An e-scrap processor is refuting allegations by Basel Action Network that the company shipped a broken monitor to Asia. Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based watchdog group, released a report last month naming six e-scrap companies it said were involved in exporting scrap printers and LCD monitors to China, Pakistan and the Philippines. Several of the named processors...

Credit: WEEE Ireland An IT asset disposition company has received a high-profile Circulars award from the World Economic Forum. The recognition comes as Apto Solutions prepares to launch a new device-leasing program. The Atlanta-headquartered company won the Young Global Leaders Award for Circular Economy SME (small to medium-sized enterprise). The awards were given out during the World Economic Forum last...