With a long-in-the-works merger finally official, recycling collector and major fiber end user Westrock is now one with the European packaging firm Smurfit Kappa. The conglomerate will use an estimated 15 million tons per year of recycled fiber globally.

This article appeared in the June 2024 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. The West Coast MRF operator Recology, which runs a major facility on San Francisco's Pier 96 called Recycle Central, has seen an increase in the inquiries it receives from customers in recent months asking where their recycling is going. The facility receives about...

Samsung collected 1.3 billion pounds of end-of-life electronics last year, its largest ever single-year global collection figure.

Seeking to quash a regulatory change that would remove over 100 million pounds of North American post-consumer resin demand per year, EFS-Plastics, Merlin Plastics and PreZero US have joined together to advocate for retaining recycled-content reusable plastic bags in California's bag regulations.

Consumers redeemed 194.5 million containers in Connecticut during the first quarter of this year, up 12.6% from a year before, as the state increased the container deposit from a nickel to a dime.

OEM Verizon is rolling out a program for businesses to supply their employees with smartphones, to manage those devices during use and to collect and facilitate recycling of the smartphones every two years.

At a meeting of Oregon materials recovery stakeholders last week, two plastics recycling experts had a blunt message for attendees: Plastics recycling is in trouble.

Balcones Recycling has completed a new sorting facility in San Antonio, the growing company's 17th MRF nationwide and home to AI-equipped optical sorters and an innovative experiment to deal with a common MRF contaminant, company executives said in an interview. 

A team of Austrian researchers have developed what they describe as a "cost-effective" and non-polluting method to recover rare earth metals from electronics, and so far, they've achieved recovery rates of up to 85% from the e-scrap stream.

Google this month published a comprehensive look at how the company has approached designing its packaging for minimal plastic use. In publicly detailing its methodology, the major corporation laid out a philosophy that "sustainability should be a collaborative endeavor, not a competitive one."