A food safety scientific panel has approved the use of post-consumer PET recycling technologies from Bandera, Erema, Gneuss, NGR, Polymetrix, Starlinger and others. 

The U.S. continued to export less scrap fiber and plastic during the first nine months of this year, with notable drops in paper shipped to India and plastic shipped to Mexico. 

Chris Kaasmann sees a parallel between the e-scrap industry's requirement to start managing e-plastics differently and the need for the planet to switch to renewable energy. Both need to happen, but in neither case can you simply flip a switch to realize universal change. 

Mobile device reverse logistics and remarketing firm Alchemy has opened a refurbishment facility in Miami.

The acquisition of Retronix will help global electronics manufacturer Jabil enable reuse of electronic components that may otherwise face the shredder. 

Envision Plastics has completed its project to boost its capacity to produce EcoPrime, the reclaimer's food-grade, post-consumer resin. 

The U.S. continued to export less scrap plastic to the rest of the world, according to an analysis of trade data covering the first nine months of 2023. 

For all the global, national and state-level arguments and policymaking surrounding plastics, paper continues to increase its already-large share of the curbside bin, new data shows.

When iFixit went looking for an eastern U.S. site to set up a new logistics/distribution facility, it didn't feel right to build a facility from the ground up. After, the company's ethos is repair, CEO Kyle Wiens said. 

Iron Mountain says used electronics pricing was relatively steady during the third quarter, flattening out revenues for the company's asset lifecycle segment. But Envela Corporation found decreased volumes of incoming electronics and solar panels hurt results at its ITAD and e-scrap companies.