Washington state regulators this month announced an enforcement action against longtime processor Total Reclaim, stemming from battery processing violations observed during a 2023 inspection.

An annual industry overview from Cascade Asset Management found resale values have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels, and a majority of surveyed IT asset managers plan to maintain or ramp up technology spending in the coming year. That suggests plenty of incoming ITAD demand.

Global clothing e-commerce retailer Shein has developed a chemical recycling process alongside a Chinese research university and is planning to start up a facility in June, producing 6.6 million pounds per year of chemically recycled polyester for use in its apparel.

Federal prosecutors say a former California mayor received bribery payments and services in exchange for agreeing to extend a recycling contract. Now all involved are facing federal charges for bribery or fraud.

Countries within the OECD have announced how they'll each enforce new Basel Convention rules. As was foreshadowed by their previous failure to agree on uniform enforcement among all members, there is a fair amount of variance by nation.

A group of recycling stakeholders in Summit County, Utah, are working to get the funding in place to build a sorting facility and create a regional collection model that would raise the world-class ski destination's current 12% diversion rate.

During a three-hour confirmation hearing, President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. EPA administrator said he is still learning about chemical recycling, praised the marine debris-focused Save Our Seas Act as a model of bipartisan plastic pollution legislation and said PFAS regulation will be a "big issue" for him.

More than a year after a long-running public-facing film and flexible packaging drop-off directory went dark, a new consumer guide to film recycling has emerged from the Plastics Industry Association.

A group of recycling stakeholders in Summit County, Utah, are working to get the funding in place to build a sorting facility and create a regional collection model that would raise the world-class ski destination's current 12% diversion rate.

The Department of Energy's aptly named E-SCRAP prize program has awarded funds to companies engaged in hard drive disassembly, rare earth magnet recovery, hydrometallurgy and e-plastics recycling. More companies are invited to apply this year.