A Portland, Ore. reclaimer is making plans for a facility that would sort out less commonly recycled plastics coming from across the region. The Inlander newspaper reports Denton Plastics is looking at building a plastics recycling facility (PRF) to sort, wash and grind recycled plastics. The facility would feed material to the company's current location, which produces pellets for molding into...

Online advertising can be an effective way to direct residents to local recycling program webpages, a recent study shows, but not all advertising platforms are equally effective. Recyclist, a company that provides recycling outreach services for municipalities, recently compared the effectiveness of advertising on Google and Facebook. The study results may prove useful for local programs looking to reduce contamination...

What's important to consumers who are considering purchasing refurbished mobile phones? Recent research offers some insights into that secondhand device market. Hyla Mobile, which operates phone take back programs for carriers and retailers, commissioned a survey by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The survey looked at three categories of consumers: "intenders," who plan to buy a certified pre-owned smartphone,...

Saskatchewan will expand the list of device types it accepts for electronics recycling, including one absent from most North American programs: microwave ovens. Starting May 1, 2018, the province will add countertop microwave ovens, scanners, floor-standing printers, external storage drives and modems, game consoles and peripherals, e-book readers and GPS devices, according to a press release from the government of...

More details have emerged about Revolution Plastics' plan to build an agricultural plastics recycling facility in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley. The company recently received a $3 million grant from the state of California for the project. The plastics operation will build a 75,000-square-foot recycling and manufacturing facility just north of Dinuba, Calif., a town outside of Fresno....

A study commissioned by Closed Loop Partners identifies strategies to enhance the PET bottle recycling system, allowing recycled PET to better compete with virgin plastic. The report, “Cleaning the rPET Stream: How we scale post-consumer recycled PET in the U.S.,” was prepared by consulting and research firm Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) with input from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR)...

The state of California is helping to finance a facility that will process glass fines into a product used in high-strength concrete. Meanwhile, state regulators recently approved new reporting and inspection rules for glass sorting and cleanup facilities. CalRecycle recently announced it awarded a $3 million grant to Sioneer Stockton, LLC, a company working to build a glass processing facility...

This article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Homeboy Recycling’s success in the e-scrap industry spurred its move this summer into a new downtown Los Angeles space, with a warehouse twice the size of its old one. One of the keys to its growth, in addition to its connection...

This article originally appeared in the November 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Homeboy Recycling’s success in the e-scrap industry spurred its move this summer into a new downtown Los Angeles space, with a warehouse twice the size of its old one. One of the keys to its growth, in addition to...

The state of California’s goal is to achieve a 75 percent recycling and composting rate by 2020. That big goal is what partially drove Waste Management to build a big MRF in the Los Angeles area. “The Azusa MRF is one of only a handful of facilities in the U.S. that are comparable in size,” according to a Waste Management...