A major enterprise resource planning software platform will provide clients with access to Bloom ESG's environmental impact reporting calculator, and another major ITAD firm has adopted Bloom's calculator and agreed to provide data that will bolster Bloom's reporting capabilities.

Domestic rare earth company MP Materials and major OEM Apple this week announced a collaboration that will have Apple invest $500 million in MP, and will involve the companies harvesting rare earth minerals from recycled electronics.

Amid a spike in post-consumer resin imports that reclaimers say is damaging the U.S. plastics recycling system, and allegations that some of that imported resin may not truly be recycled, a bill advancing in California would require beverage container manufacturers to report the country of origin for all PCR incorporated in their products.

As state legislative sessions for the year have largely concluded, supporters of container deposit legislation recently reflected on a year that brought new twists on how bottle bills are proposed and saw support from some unlikely stakeholders.

A pilot project is demonstrating a bolt-on modular system that could make it logistically and economically feasible for e-scrap processors to recover rare earth elements from end-of-life electronics within their existing facilities.

Global packaging firm Amcor recently announced it is installing new equipment at a Kentucky facility that allows the company to produce packaging with a wider variety of post-consumer resin percentages, citing demand from the company's spirits customers.

Circular Action Alliance has submitted an amended program plan for meeting Colorado's extended producer responsibility regulations for packaging. Public comment will open later this summer.

Circular Action Alliance has submitted an amended program plan for meeting Colorado's extended producer responsibility regulations for packaging. Public comment will open later this summer.

A petition is gathering signatures to compel the e-Stewards, i-SIGMA and R2 certifications to publicly address and investigate an IT asset disposition-connected data breach that came to light early this year. All three certifications responded in statements to E-Scrap News.

Led by the Glass Packaging Institute, a new initiative seeks to improve MRF sortation of smaller packaging materials that often get missorted and end up in the glass stream.