Projects that improve polypropylene packaging recovery are eligible for substantial financial support from the Closed Loop Fund. The fund, which offers low- or no-interest loans to projects that improve recycling efforts, is looking specifically to finance processors that increase their polypropylene (PP) recovery. PP now has its own model bale specification and is targeted separately by some facilities, but recovery...

Two pieces of legislation recently introduced in Connecticut aim to reshape the state's deposit system. One bill expands the state's 5-cent deposit on beverage containers, and the other removes it. Senate Bill 996 eliminates the deposit program and instead levies a 4-cent "recycling fee" on each covered beverage container. The fee revenue, to be paid by consumers, goes into a new account...

Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that consumes significant tonnages of CRT glass, has cancelled a $210 million slag fuming furnace project after an ongoing delay tied to market conditions. The furnace initiative was announced in 2011, and the company aimed for completion within three years. The planned investment was valued at the time at $210 million Canadian dollars (in 2011,...

Colorado is one of just three states with an electronics landfill ban but no statewide e-scrap management program. An e-scrap executive in the state recently provided an update on how that system is working out. In a recent webinar, Janice Oldemeyer, president of Onsite Recycling and its Colorado I.T. Refresh division, described the local effects of Colorado's landfill ban, which...

Two pieces of legislation recently introduced in Connecticut aim to reshape the state's deposit system. One bill expands the state's 5-cent deposit on beverage containers, and the other removes it. Senate Bill 996 eliminates the deposit program and instead levies a 4-cent "recycling fee" on each covered beverage container. The fee revenue, to be paid by consumers, goes into a new account...

Projects that improve polypropylene packaging recovery are eligible for substantial financial support from the Closed Loop Fund. The fund, which offers low- or no-interest loans to projects that improve recycling efforts, is looking specifically to finance processors that increase their polypropylene (PP) recovery. PP now has its own model bale specification and is targeted separately by some facilities, but recovery...

A college student has developed software allowing residents of a Florida community to verbally ask Amazon's Alexa voice system whether an item is locally accepted for recycling. Users of Connor Zazzo's "Tampa Green Can" program will query the voice system, which is utilized through Amazon's Echo device, whether an item is accepted in the recycling program in Tampa, Fla. Using...

The City of Columbus, Ohio will pay 50 percent more for recycling and yard debris collection over the next five years, under the terms of a contract approved this week. Rumpke Waste & Recycling charged roughly $30.1 million to collect recycling and yard debris from 2012 to 2017. But from next month through March 2022, the hauler and MRF operator...

Avangard Innovative, which for years has managed commercial recycling streams and sold scrap to manufacturers, is gearing up to play a larger role in plastic resin production. The Houston-based company will construct a $10 million facility for recycling polyethylene film into LDPE pellets to produce new film. The company announced the new plant on Monday, concurrent with the Plastics Recycling...

Plastic film recycling reached a new high in 2015, but less rigid plastic was recycled than in years prior, according to the American Chemistry Council. The group released two market reports at the Plastics Recycling 2017 conference this week. The reports, based on a survey of U.S. reclaimers conducted by More Recycling, found global factors are weighing down the rigid...