The assets from shuttered plastics reclaimer Entropex will be purchased by the founders of two major Canadian recycling companies. Emmie Leung, founder and CEO of Emterra Group, and Tony Moucachen, founder and CEO of Merlin Plastics Group, have formed a partnership to purchase the assets of Sarnia, Ontario-based Entropex Before it closed in July, citing tough market conditions, Entropex was...

PepsiCo says it will work to eliminate packaging materials that inhibit sorting or contaminate downstream recycling streams. The global food and beverage company also said it will redesign the film in its snack packaging to enable its recovery. The pledges were included in the company's recently announced 2025 sustainability goals, which call for designing all of the company's packaging to...

The assets of shuttered plastics reclaimer Entropex will be purchased by the founders of Emterra Group and Merlin Plastics Group. Emmie Leung and Tony Moucachen have formed a partnership to purchase the assets of Sarnia, Ontario-based Entropex, which was one of North America's largest reclaimers and a specialist in sorting and recycling non-bottled rigid plastics. In July, Entropex closed and...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers will research ways in which materials recovery facilities might be able to recover more smaller sized plastic containers, which are often lost during sortation. That was one of several actions the group announced at a recent meeting. The announcement that the group will pursue a small container capture protocol was made at its annual membership...

A materials recovery facility in Seattle recently reopened with new sortation equipment, which is allowing for greater throughput and cleaner end products. But the work didn't displace any human jobs, and that was the point: The MRF operator works to create work and training opportunities for individuals recovering from drug and alcohol addictions. Nonprofit organization Seadrunar Recycling hired Machinex to...

The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit against a large beverage distributor, claiming the company owes the state millions of dollars in unpaid deposit funds. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing New Jersey-based North Bergen Beverage and its owner and operator, Steven Arillo. The state claims that since 2011 the company has sold millions of beverages in New York...

An individual's views toward electronics recycling tend to align closely with community attitudes toward recycling and reuse in general, a survey suggests. Pew Research Center recently released results from a survey asking Americans about their community's access to – and attitudes toward – recycling and reuse. A post-survey write-up by Pew also touches on recycling service access and the U.S....

An initiative funded by the European Union is working to recycle petroleum-based PET and polyurethane into bio-based plastics through the use of enzymes and bacteria. Horizon, the research and innovation magazine of the European Union (EU), recently wrote about the 7.05 million Euro (about $7.8 million) P4SB project. The article also touches on the difficulty reclaimers face competing against low virgin...

Environmental services company Suez Environnement has partnered with TerraCycle to expand the recovery of difficult-to-recycle plastics in six European countries. The France-based waste, recycling and water treatment giant bought 30 percent of the shares of New Jersey-based TerraCycle in Belgium, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.K. Suez is publicly traded. Founded in 2001, TerraCycle specializes in tackling a...

The manager of a shuttered mixed-waste processing facility in Montgomery, Ala. said depressed commodity prices and low waste volumes doomed the project. Additionally, bankruptcy filings outline millions owed to creditors. Which raises the question: Could the facility reopen anytime soon? "I don't think you can, economically, right now, and I think that's the reality of the situation," said Kyle Mowitz,...