A comprehensive industry study has put a dollar amount on what U.S. materials recovery facilities and their municipal partners are spending to move recovered glass downstream. An annual net cost of $150 million for management of glass collected in single-stream collection systems was identified in a report released today by the nonprofit Closed Loop Foundation, which is associated with the...

In the first month of 2017, the volume of exported material jumped over 35 percent compared with the same period last year. In January, U.S. scrap plastic exports totaled 361.71 million pounds, a drop of 1.5 percent from December 2016 levels. However, compared with January 2016, exports volumes during the first month of the year were up 36.1 percent. It...

How can recycling players be sure their material choices aren't damaging other links in the recovery chain? One industry collaboration has developed a resource to help. The ASTRX initiative from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and The Recycling Partnership recently released a one-page guide for packaging management decision-makers called "Navigating the Recycling System." ASTRX, launched last September, stands for Applying Systems...

How can recycling players be sure their material choices aren't damaging other links in the recovery chain? One industry collaboration has developed a resource to help. The ASTRX initiative from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and The Recycling Partnership recently released a one-page guide for packaging management decision-makers called "Navigating the Recycling System." ASTRX, launched last September, stands for Applying Systems...

Surely, the future of electronics recycling was not the top thing on Donald Trump's mind when he crafted his recent federal budget proposal. Nonetheless, President Trump's controversial plan for allocation of federal dollars could end up making a long-term impact on the e-scrap industry – and not in a good way. The Trump administration's fiscal proposal - "a budget blueprint...

Plastics recycling stakeholders, it’s time to elevate your game. That was the message delivered in a variety of different ways from industry leaders in New Orleans last week. Throughout the series of sessions at the Plastics Recycling 2017 conference, speakers offered examples of opportunities for sector growth. But they also made it clear that capitalizing on such potential for profits...

Most plastics recycling professionals have likely benefited from the work of Patty Moore. Since the 1980s, she and her company Moore Recycling Associates have been central to a wide variety of industry advances, including improved data, bolstered relationships with overseas buyers and growth in film collection. This winter Moore officially handed over the reins of Moore Recycling to staffers Nina...

Plastics recycling stakeholders, it's time to elevate your game. That was the message delivered in a variety of different ways from industry leaders in New Orleans this week. Throughout the series of sessions at Plastics Recycling 2017, speakers offered examples of opportunities for sector growth. But they also made it clear that capitalizing on such potential for profits will require...

A Minnesota company is distancing itself from the wider metals recycling market to focus squarely on end-of-life electronics processing. Integrated Recycling Technologies (IRT) this week announced it is moving into a 42,000-square-foot facility in the city of Waite Park, Minn. The company has plans to add another 40,000 square feet next year. The firm had been operating out of a 10-acre yard...

Materials recovery facilities have long been vocal about the impacts they're seeing from a shifting waste stream. A new group is now aiming to elevate the voice of compost operations in that conversation. Launched in January, the Compost Manufacturing Alliance was founded by six companies with a combined annual organics processing capacity of 750,000 tons. A leader of the effort...