Jim Lynch, who worked in the nonprofit sector his entire career, helped transform the business of device repair in numerous ways.

This story originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   As recycling markets have been thrown into turmoil in recent years due to China's import shifts, the North American industry has seen facilities close, programs shorten acceptable-material lists and major tonnages of collected paper and plastic head to landfill....

For one scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, moving the needle on plastic recovery is analogous to stopping the spread of COVID-19. In both cases, many minds must come together. "The COVID vaccine came about in one year because the whole world was working on this problem, because a lot of people worked on that problem right away," said Max Delferro,...

This article appeared in the April 2021 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The city of Cambridge, Mass. is known for education, being home to both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But when China's National Sword sent recycling markets into turmoil several years ago, municipal officials in Cambridge had to bring knowledge-sharing...

The U.S. EPA's top environmental justice official has a message for recycling operators: Don't wait for a conflict to arise to start engaging with the community that surrounds you. Matthew Tejada, who since 2013 has been director of the U.S. EPA's Office of Environmental Justice, addressed the recycling sector on April 29 during the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' ISRI2021...

The U.S. EPA's top environmental justice official has a message for recycling operators: Don't wait for a conflict to arise to start engaging with the community that surrounds you. Matthew Tejada, who since 2013 has been director of the U.S. EPA's Office of Environmental Justice, addressed the recycling sector on April 29 during the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' ISRI2021...

The U.S. EPA's top environmental justice official has a message for recycling operators: Don't wait for a conflict to arise to start engaging with the community that surrounds you. Matthew Tejada, who since 2013 has been director of the U.S. EPA's Office of Environmental Justice, addressed the recycling sector on April 29 during the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' ISRI2021...

This article appeared in the March 2021 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Several years ago, the Georgia Recycling Coalition worked with a film crew to produce a short video called “Made in Georgia.” Highlighting the various ways materials-recovery efforts were boosting businesses in the state, the production team recorded interviews with executives at paper...

Hundreds of plastics recycling and sustainability professionals are taking part in this week's virtual Plastics Recycling Conference, which is offering discussions on policy, markets and more at a time of sector uncertainty. The 16th-annual Plastics Recycling Conference, taking place April 7-8, has drawn over 820 registered attendees and more than 80 sponsoring and exhibiting companies. The online gathering is happening...

Policymakers and brand owners have recently emphasized boosting recycled content in plastic packaging to try to enhance recycling. At a conference this week, speakers outlined some of the challenges in this realm. The Northeast Recycling Coalition's virtual spring conference included a session March 30 called "Setting Post-Consumer Recycled Content Requirements: Resources for Policymakers." The very existence of the discussion is...