Municipal leaders in Casper, Wyo. have reversed course and decided to renew their electronics recycling program, after hearing from angry constituents opposed to landfilling them. The Casper Star Tribune reports Casper City Council members agreed at a recent work session to sign a contract with ERI, which submitted a bid to process e-scrap at its Aurora, Colo. location. The Council...

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, a major end user of recovered PE, is being sold for more than $100 million. Oldcastle Architectural will acquire Springdale, Ark.-based AERT for $117 million, according to a press release. AERT is a major producer of wood-plastic composite building products. The acquisition allows Oldcastle Architectural to enter the composite decking category. AERT's ChoiceDek and MoistureShield brands...

A group that includes major consumer brands wants to connect with a sorting facility to help advance the recovery of a material that is often sent to disposal. The Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF) project is seeking to partner with a U.S. materials recovery facility (MRF) and the community it serves to pilot the curbside recycling of flexible packaging....

Lawmakers in California are considering legislation mandating that plastic bottles have tethered caps. Meanwhile, a different bill bans take-out containers that aren't accepted in local recycling or composting programs. Following are brief rundowns of some of the recent bills in the Golden State that could affect plastics recycling companies: Tethered caps Assembly Bill 319 prohibits retailers from selling plastic bottles...

Personal care product company Garnier is working with TerraCycle and a nonprofit group to help consumers keep plastic out of the trash stream. The company also noted that it boosted the amount of recycled content in its packaging starting this year. Garnier, a hair and skin care products brand owned by L’Oreal, teamed up with nonprofit organization DoSomething.org for a...

Using an advanced visioning system and deep-learning capabilities, a robot is now picking an average of one carton a second off a container line at a Denver-area MRF. It may be an early look at the future of materials processing. The project, unveiled on March 16, is a major step forward into the world of using artificially intelligent robots to...

Personal care product company Garnier is working with TerraCycle and a nonprofit group to help consumers keep plastic out of the trash stream. The company also noted that it boosted the amount of recycled content in its packaging starting this year. Garnier, a hair and skin care products brand owned by L'Oreal, teamed up with nonprofit organization DoSomething.org for a...

A bill advancing in the Washington state legislature blacklists e-scrap processors that twice violate state program rules. It also requires the disclosure of prices processors charge. Those are a couple of the major provisions in House Bill 1824, which may be among the most significant proposed revamps of a state e-scrap program in the U.S. this year. It has already...

An update to the e-scrap recycling certification standard incorporates the latest version of the ISO 14001 standard, as well as approved amendments to the second e-Stewards iteration and other changes. The release of the e-Stewards Standard Version 3.0 comes after a four-week public consultation process in February. "The improved e-Stewards Standard V 3.0 surpasses V 2.0 and continues to ensure...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers will expand staffing to further engage brand owners on designing products for recyclability. That was one tidbit from the group's March meeting. Held in New Orleans last week in conjunction with Plastics Recycling 2017, the meeting drew a record 225 registered attendees. About 1,700 people attended Plastics Recycling 2017 Steve Alexander, executive director of the...