Plastics reclaimer EFS-plastics will invest $17 million in recycling technologies at its locations in Pennsylvania and Alberta over two years, the company announced.

A Pacific Northwest composting facility has been brought on-line by a perhaps surprising entrant into the food scraps processing industry: a trucking company.

Prices for copper have been slipping to lows not seen since the May time frame. 

Oladosu Teyibo built a software development and recruiting company that operated in eight countries, five of them in Africa. From the outset, he experienced a “pain point” of not being able to hire people in Africa because they didn’t have the right computer equipment to work for him.

The second quarter brought generally worse business conditions for the ITAD industry than the first quarter, although business leaders seem to think they've hit the bottom of secondary market pricing.

After its footprint realignment and expansion plans come to fruition, ERI may realize a total electronics processing capacity increase of up to 30%, the company's CEO estimated.

Packaging producer TC Transcontinental Packaging will invest $60 million to develop a recyclable all-PE flexible plastic package with greater heat resistance.

Reynolds Consumer Products has agreed to change advertising language and pay up to $4 million to settle one of multiple lawsuits alleging its marketing of recycling collection bags is illegal. 

One academic study from Iowa explored using residential PP scrap at different levels in new food bottles, and another in Japan discovered nine different polymer types as microplastics in clouds. 

Amazon will roll out an online resource to help sellers participate in the company's sustainability programs, including packaging sustainability efforts.