Thousands of tons of materials were seized during a raid in the Chinese province of Guangdong last week. It's the latest enforcement action taken as part of China's ongoing campaign to combat low-quality recovered-material imports. Enforcement officials seized 85,000 tons of primarily scrap plastics and metals with a value of 1 billion RMB (about $146.5 million), according to a June...

Two large operations involved in PET recovery in Southern California will receive assistance from a state agency in expanding or bringing facilities on-line. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) approved two loans to PET recycling companies through its Recycling Market Development Zone program. PinnPack, located in Oxnard, Calif., and rPlanet Earth, located in Vernon, Calif., will each...

The future of recovered materials exports to China remains hazy, but leaders from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) made a few things clear after a recent trip to Hong Kong and Beijing. A rumored ban on scrap commodities imports would be a separate initiative from the current quality enforcement campaign known as National Sword. There has also been...

Com2 Recycling Solutions is opening a facility in Georgia as it expands its capacity to produce a glaze product from CRT glass. The glaze is currently used on tile products made by Brazilian manufacturers. Illinois-based Com2 says the move will increase its total CRT processing capacity to 200 tons of intact devices per day and could also give e-scrap companies...

Illinois-based PC Rebuilders & Recyclers (PCRR) has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, indicating it plans to sell off its assets to pay creditors. The company has less than $50,000 in assets and its liabilities total between $1 million and $10 million, according to the June 11 filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Specific...

The future of recovered materials exports to China remains hazy, but the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) made a few things clear after a recent trip to Hong Kong and Beijing. A rumored ban on scrap commodities imports would be a separate initiative from the current quality enforcement campaign known as National Sword. There has also been a recent...

Pennsylvania's recycling industry contributed $22.6 billion in value to the state's gross product in 2015, according to an economic impact report. The industry also contributed $1.7 billion in state taxes and $2.7 billion in federal taxes that year. Compiled by the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center and analyst IHS Markit, the report plugged state data into an economic modeling program to...

Los Angeles is slated to implement its franchise zone system for commercial haulers next month, but a lawsuit filed last week could complicate things. The lawsuit, first reported by the Los Angeles Business Journal on June 7, was filed by the Apartment Owners Association of California. It seeks to block the city from implementing the franchise zones, which will provide...

The City of Calgary's curbside recycling program has accepted plastic bags since it was rolled out in 2009, but it has faced a recurring issue: residents tossing them in the cart loose, instead of in bundles. This year, an outreach campaign aimed to address the problem head-on. To function properly, bag collections require a bag-in-bag approach so the film can...

Canada-based EnviroLeach is planning to open a processing facility that will use a non-toxic water-based formula to recover precious metals. E-Scrap News first reported on the technology last summer, when Mineworx filed for a patent on the formula. Publicly traded EnviroLeach has since been formed as a separate company to use the formula to recover valuable metals from printed circuit...