This article appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. In the three decades since its first printing, the Association of Plastic Recyclers Design Guide, an instruction manual for calibrating plastic packaging to best suit reclaimers' needs, has evolved from a basic list of dos and don'ts, patched together by a handful...

This article appeared in the February 2025 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Finding a niche and keeping materials separated and clean are crucial to building recycling programs that go beyond the everyday commodities, leaders of programs that collect items as diverse as Solo cups, streetlights, swimming pool lane dividers and plastic drums for soft drink...

Details are scarce on U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's plans to cut his agency's spending by 65% or more, but some of its 15,000 full-time-equivalent positions and grants to recycling programs across the country could be on the chopping block. 

Details are scarce on U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's plans to cut his agency's spending by 65% or more, but some of its 15,000 full-time-equivalent positions and grants to recycling programs across the country could be on the chopping block. 

Details are scarce on U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's plans to cut his agency's spending by 65% or more, but some of its 15,000 full-time-equivalent positions and grants to recycling programs across the country could be on the chopping block. 

Public events always bring their own challenges to recycling – large numbers of people on the move, visitors from out of town, a constant flow of adult beverages and other distractions, the list goes on. And Mardi Gras in New Orleans, with its 12-day, 24-7 marathon of parades and parties drawing roughly 1 million people every year, may well be...

Public events always bring their own challenges to recycling – large numbers of people on the move, visitors from out of town, a constant flow of adult beverages and other distractions, the list goes on. And Mardi Gras in New Orleans, with its 12-day, 24-7 marathon of parades and parties drawing roughly 1 million people every year, may well be...

Existing technologies and targeted investments could allow U.S. MRFs and glass recycling facilities to capture tens of thousands of tons of valuable small-format plastic items, according to a Closed Loop Partners report released Feb. 19. 

Existing technologies and targeted investments could allow U.S. MRFs and glass recycling facilities to capture tens of thousands of tons of valuable small-format plastic items, according to a Closed Loop Partners report released Feb. 19. 

A pause on several federal funding programs by the Trump Administration could affect new recycling facilities and other projects across the country, though several leaders in the recycling industry said they expect the impact to be temporary and limited.