TES is opening a facility in Virginia to decommission hyperscale data centers, part of the ITAD company's strategy to benefit from the continuing transition of computing power from individual devices to the cloud.

Plastics reclaimer Polyfit invested up to $7 million expanding its campus in northern Mexico, boosting its polyethylene recycling capacity at a time of rising demand in the U.S.  

Republic Services expects to invest about $160 million over the next five or six years into building four polyolefins recycling facilities around the country. When completed, the plants could bring the company up to $32 million in annual earnings. 

New Hampshire lawmakers slipped a food waste disposal ban into a state budget bill, which was signed into law in June. 

Fiber prices are slowly recovering from the rock-bottom values of late last year and early this year, but scrap plastic prices have fallen dramatically in recent months, taking a toll on the largest haulers' recycling businesses.

A company with a pilot plant for extracting precious metals from printed circuit boards has filed to become a publicly traded company. 

Nearly a third of IT professionals at small- and medium-sized businesses admitted that they trash at least some used electronics rather than dispose of them in a responsible manner, according to a software marketplace's survey. 

A number of market factors squeezed the ITAD industry earlier this year, including high costs of labor and lower secondary market prices, according to a first-of-its-kind survey. 

Bag, packaging and utensils producer Novolex used more PCR in its products in North America last year, but the company's overall PCR usage dropped slightly due to supply challenges in the U.K.

The CEO of Eastman Chemicals said today's low PET prices are slowing negotiations over contracts to sell chemically recycled PET to brand owners, but he remains confident that recycled-content mandates and Eastman's technological advantage will push the deals over the finish line.