This article originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The Recycling Partnership landed on the materials-recovery scene in 2014. The organization has since then continuously added a range of brand owners, recycling stakeholders and others as funders. The number of backers now sits at 39. It's used that funding...

Business consultants love to say that if a company isn’t changing it’s probably declining. Fortunately, that’s not a concern for Georgia reclaimer US Plastics Recovery, a business where evolution is embraced. The company, which launched in 2006, this May completed a transition to a new facility. It’s the third different site the reclaimer has occupied, and each has been bigger...

Consumers paid record prices for Apple's iPhone X. A recent analysis shows the refurb market is doing the same. According to liquidation services firm B-Stock, used versions of the phone have been regularly snapped up by consumers at 85 percent of the original retail price, which was $999. The B-Stock report also notes that bulk resale purchasers are paying 75...

Maria Delgado-Loubriel, who runs Legie E-Scrap Recycling in Jacksonville, Fla., faces felony charges for improper management of hazardous e-scrap. Delgado-Loubriel, 60, was arrested July 16 with bond set at just over $10,000, according to documents from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. The arrest stems from hazardous waste violations observed this spring by state environmental regulators at a Jacksonville site. The location...

Four years ago, it became clear Montgomery, Ala. was going to be the testing ground for an updated approach to mixed-waste processing. The city partnered with a relatively unproven startup called Infinitus Energy, put millions into facility construction, touted the cutting-edge sortation technology it had on hand, and told residents that curbside recycling was back in Alabama's capital - and...

This story originally appeared in the June 2018 issue of Resource Recycling magazine. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Brand owners, government leaders, trade associations and others are increasingly referencing the notion of a circular economy when outlining goals and strategies. At its most basic level, a circular economy is a system geared toward recovering materials and efficiently...

The organization that administers the R2 e-scrap recycling standard has elevated Corey Dehmey to the executive director role. He replaces John Lingelbach, whose exit from the group was announced earlier this year. Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) made the announcement this morning. Dehmey has been working for SERI for four years, most recently serving as its R2 director. Previously, Dehmey...

This article originally appeared in the May 2018 issue of Resource Recycling magazine. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The Recycling Partnership landed on the materials-recovery scene in 2014. The organization has since then continuously added a range of brand owners, recycling stakeholders and others as funders. The number of backers now sits at 39. It's used that funding...

Aligning recycling metrics with concepts such as sustainable materials management has been a challenge. But a researcher in Florida is offering intriguing possibilities in that area. Tim Townsend is an environmental engineer and professor at the University of Florida who has extensively studied waste-related issues over the past decade. His current work taps right into a key question among forward-looking...

Aligning recycling metrics with concepts such as sustainable materials management has been a challenge. But a researcher in Florida is offering intriguing possibilities in that area. Tim Townsend is an environmental engineer and professor at the University of Florida who has extensively studied waste-related issues over the past decade. His current work taps right into a key question among forward-looking...