This story originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   With more recovered plastics looking for a home domestically and major consumer-facing companies pledging to increase their use of recycled content, it's clear the business of plastics recycling is entering a period filled with potential opportunities. But it's also obvious...

With the new year now underway, government leaders are refocusing on issues that may have been put on the back-burner toward the end of 2019. And perhaps more than in any year in recent memory, recycling in 2020 is primed to be part of lawmaker dialogue – most notably at the state and national levels. What’s driving the policy push?...

Industry leaders in one West Coast state are pondering a variety of different frameworks to help recycling programs and processors find greater resilience in the wake of National Sword. Producers may ultimately be asked to play a big role in the solution. Since May 2018, a steering committee of 16 recycling stakeholders convened by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality...

Industry leaders in one West Coast state are pondering a variety of different frameworks to help recycling programs and processors find greater resilience in the wake of National Sword. Producers may ultimately be asked to play a big role in the solution. Since May 2018, a steering committee of 16 recycling stakeholders convened by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality...

Perhaps more than in any year in recent memory, recycling in 2020 is primed to be part of lawmaker dialogue – most notably at the state and national levels.

This article appeared in the December 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   As China's import restrictions have continued to evolve, much of the analysis on the situation has come from companies and organizations based in North American and Europe. But voices from inside China have been hard to come by. A report earlier this...

This article appeared in the December 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. With more recovered plastics looking for a home domestically and major consumer-facing companies pledging to increase their use of recycled content, it's clear the business of plastics recycling is entering a period filled with potential opportunities. But it's also obvious that coordination among...

Perhaps more than in any year in recent memory, recycling in 2020 is primed to be part of lawmaker dialogue – most notably at the state and national levels.

Few businesses can say they’ve been around for a century, but precious metals refiner Gannon & Scott now can make the claim. The company began in Rhode Island in 1919 as a precious metals recovery outlet for the jewelry manufacturing sector, and it has evolved through the decades. In 2001, the business began focusing on material from scrap electronics, opening...

JW Aluminum Company says it will be increasing its annual intake of UBCs and other forms of recycled material by at least 100 million pounds when it finishes an expansion project in the Southeast U.S. next year. JW Aluminum in June first laid out details of the $225 million expansion of an existing manufacturing site in Goose Creek, S.C. At...