Cullet end users Gallo Glass and O-I were among the Department of Energy grant funding recipients who had their awards canceled last month, including one for a project that would directly expand recycled glass capacity. An industry group criticized the funding cuts.

Last year was a busy one for ERI, bringing the launch of the company's first in-house alkaline battery processing facility, establishment of a new stable e-plastics downstream and the rollout of the latest edition of the company's automated device identification system.

Citing factors outside the company's control, brand giant PepsiCo has softened its global post-consumer recycled content target and given itself more time to achieve the goal.

Brightmark's bankrupt Indiana pyrolysis facility will be sold to parent company Brightmark for $14.3 million in a move that will keep the facility operating and retain most or all of its more than 100 employees, a judge ruled this month. The latest development came after a competitive auction process with plenty of twists and turns.

Oregon state lawmakers recently approved a bill that allows the state to designate new redemption centers in Portland tailored toward canners — people who redeem containers on a daily or near-daily basis — and to allow retailers operating nearby to provide fewer redemption services.

Cathode ray tube devices, long the major headache material for the electronics recycling industry, continue to make up less and less of the end-of-life stream, but they're nowhere near gone completely, based on state program data and interviews with e-scrap processors.

Citing factors outside the company's control, brand giant PepsiCo has softened its global post-consumer recycled content target and given itself more time to achieve the goal.

Brightmark's bankrupt Indiana pyrolysis facility will be sold to parent company Brightmark for $14.3 million in a move that will keep the facility operating and retain most or all of its more than 100 employees, a judge ruled this month. The latest development came after a competitive auction process with plenty of twists and turns.

The data supplied by technologies like artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a must-have for recycling businesses, but companies should be judicious in which tools they employ to achieve the best results, experts said at the Recycled Materials Association's annual conference.

Electronics processors are increasingly adding solar panel recycling capacity, in some cases processing them similarly to declining streams like CRT glass and in other cases rolling out entirely new technologies, companies said in recent interviews.