Carbios announced that its enzymatic solution for the biodegradation of PLA, CARBIOS Active, was included in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances.  The REMADE (Reducing Embodied Energy And Decreasing Emissions) Institute's chief technology officer will speak at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, this month. South Korean chemical recycling firm SK Chemicals...

Readers in February were drawn to coverage of an upcoming MRF with a mixed-waste line, as well as stories exploring export trends, producer responsbility organization movement, California's definition of "recyclable," and responses to a recent report criticizing plastics recycling. The list below shows our top stories published in February  in terms of unique page views. 1 | Details on Oregon’s $150M trash-sorting...

AMERIPEN announced the second session of its 2024 webinar series, "Preparing for Packaging Producer Responsibility in the U.S."  The session, "Pulling Data Together," will be held March 20.  French chemical recycling firm Carbios signed a feedstock supply agreement with producer responsibility organization Landbell Group to supply Carbios's in-development commercial facility in Longlaville, France. A study by the Composting Consortium provided...

Equipment supplier BHS-Sonthofen is highlighting equipment that recovers metals from e-scrap at a global environmental technology trade show this year in Munich. 

The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: Freeman Trading of Severn, Maryland; Lenovo Systems Technology of Shenzhen, China; NERDiT NOW of Wilmington, Delaware; Seah Yong Heng Trading of Singapore; USACA Resources of North York, Canada; and Zarc International of Stockton, California. After completing successful audits, the organizations listed below achieved one or more...

Call2Recycle launched a consumer awareness campaign "Recycle Your Batteries, Canada!" Integrated Recycling Technologies (IRT) is partnering with educational program Viewpoint to produce a segment on the significance of recycling electronics.  Lenovo rolled out a Certified Refurbished program through which devices will be data-sanitized, tested, refurbished and redeployed to customers. The program is limited to Denmark, France, Germany, and the U.K....

American Packaging Corporation launched a flexible REDesign for Recycle package for frozen food products.  BASF has started to sell chemically recycled plastic products manufactured at its new facility in Port Arthur, Texas.  Polymer Resources expanded its sustainable materials portfolio, adding several flame-retardant products that contain at least 50% recycled content. Welsh recycler Smile Plastics tripled its production capacity with a...

CARBOS announced that France's Minister of the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty Bruno Le Maire toured the company's headquarters with a focus on its textile recycling capabilities. The National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) announced its Hall of Fame Class of 2024 inductees: Tod Holmes of WIN Waste Innovations, William Rumpke Jr. of Rumpke Waste & Recycling, and Mike...

Ascend Elements raised an additional $162 million to help build its first EV battery materials recycling and manufacturing facility in Kentucky. C2 Management will launch its on-premises hard drive destruction equipment, ShredBox.  Call2Recycle announced nearly 12.8 million pounds of batteries were collected for recycling in Canada in 2023, the highest year of collections since the program started in 1997. India-based...

The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: JRT Business Group of Doral, Florida; Maxx Trading of Brookshire, Texas; and Miramar Copies of Garland, Texas.  After completing successful audits, the organizations listed below achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing...