The Recycling Partnership is bringing together three dozen individuals from across the recycling value chain for some frank discussion about how to get more types of material consistently collected and moved to end markets. The group has invited 36 industry decision-makers to sit on a new "circularity council,"  according to Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership. The invited participants...

The Recycling Partnership is bringing together three dozen individuals from across the recycling value chain for some frank discussion about how to get more types of material consistently collected and moved to end markets. The group has invited 36 industry decision-makers to sit on a new "circularity council,"  according to Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership. The invited participants...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is currently working to implement more than a dozen initiatives worldwide. The group's leader recently explained key details, as well as how COVID-19 has impacted progress. Jacob Duer, president and CEO of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, this week told Resource Recycling his group has approved 14 projects so far. Backed by major...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is currently working to implement more than a dozen initiatives worldwide. The group's leader recently explained key details, as well as how COVID-19 has impacted progress. Jacob Duer, president and CEO of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, this week told Plastics Recycling Update his group has approved 14 projects so far. Backed by...

This story originally appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   What does it take to truly transform a specific plastic type from "recycling problem" to recycling-friendly? Building end markets for the material can help, of course. So can the development of new recycling technologies. But, often, the key to...

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...

Welcome to the latest crisis, recycling industry. Over the past two years, most program coordinators and processing executives have been dealing with the repercussions of a massively altered downstream market, with buyers in China and other Asian countries no longer consuming as they once were. That phenomenon had pronounced impacts on pricing and end-market viability for many recyclables. It was...

Plastic film has long been identified as a major contaminant in municipal materials recovery programs. Research from the West Coast shows just how challenging it has been to educate residents around proper bag behavior. According to a study released by The Recycling Partnership this week, a large chunk of residents in California, Oregon and Washington that participated in a recycling...

According to a study from The Recycling Partnership, large and mid-sized cities in California see an average contamination rate of around 20%, a finding that underscores the complications of aligning enthusiastic residents with local-program realities. The Recycling Partnership, an organization that is backed by corporate stakeholders and is geared toward improving municipal recycling in the U.S., undertook research in 2019...

Many recycling facilities track throughput, materials composition, contamination and other data points. One operator in the Northeast is now bringing meticulous measurement to social distancing. Portland, Maine-based Ecomaine runs a 50,000-square-foot MRF, as well as a waste-to-energy site and landfill. It's a nonprofit entity owned by 20 Maine communities and serves a population of around 400,000 residents. In early March,...