More than 50 U.S. recycling professionals will receive grants to attend the 2017 Resource Recycling Conference, a five-fold increase over last year. The Recycling Partnership said additional industry partners have boosted funding for this year's Steve Thompson Memorial Education Grants program. Together, those funders contributed over $80,000 to pay travel, lodging and conference registration costs for grant recipients. The conference...

This story has been updated. As California moves forward developing mandatory policies for the recycling of packaging, regulators want public input on some of the criteria they should consider. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has scheduled a packaging reform workshop for Sept. 19. In advance of the meeting, agency staff have drafted criteria to help them...

An innovation developed by Procter & Gamble to bolster polypropylene recovery is being put into action, with construction of an Ohio facility beginning last week. A startup called PureCycle Technologies recently broke ground on a plant in Ironton, Ohio, which is approximately 130 miles from P&G's Cincinnati headquarters. It will be located at the site of a recently closed Dow...

A freight forwarding company has filed a lawsuit against a recyclables exporter, demanding to be reimbursed for tens of thousands of dollars in charges that accrued when cargo containers were left unclaimed at a Chinese port. Dallas-headquartered SeaLink International filed a complaint against Red Bank, N.J.-based Dock 7 Materials Group. It was filed on June 22 in the U.S. District...

A research paper on individual steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has precipitated a host of mainstream media stories, many of which aren't kind to recycling. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada and Lund University in Sweden, explored which individual lifestyle choices people can make to reduce their carbon contributions. The resulting paper,...

As New Jersey regulators implement changes to the state's electronics recycling law, they say they have no intention of creating a statewide standard plan, according to the leader of a recycling group in the state. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on July 10 held a meeting in the capital of Trenton to update stakeholders on their progress...

A federal appeals court will allow the founder of an electronics recycling company to stay out of prison while he appeals his 15-month sentence tied to software counterfeiting. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on July 13 issued an order allowing Clifford Eric Lundgren to remain free while he appeals a sentence for criminal copyright infringement and...

An innovation developed by Procter & Gamble to bolster polypropylene recovery is being put into action, with construction of an Ohio facility beginning today. A startup called PureCycle Technologies this morning broke ground on a plant in Ironton, Ohio, which is approximately 130 miles from P&G's Cincinnati headquarters. It will be located at the site of a recently closed Dow...

The mayor of a Pennsylvania city is being charged with violating county recycling and solid waste laws after he contaminated a collection bin. He could be facing a fine or months of community service. Anthony Mastrangelo, 81, mayor of New Castle, Pa., said he placed a broken cat carrier in a public collection bin, thinking it was accepted in the...

A group that uses corporate money to lift materials recovery has awarded a total of $350,000 to eight projects aimed at keeping organics out of the waste stream. The Closed Loop Foundation, an arm of Closed Loop Partners, selected eight food-oriented projects to fund, out of a total of over 150 proposals. "The Solution Search model has proven to help...