ITAD companies often seek to site facilities near their clients to reduce costs and environmental impacts of collecting used electronics. With its new Ohio plant, CNE Direct also considered downstream movement. "We needed a location that would optimize the logistics and the carbon footprint spend, not just on the way in but on the way out," said Omur Bagci, CEO...

When it comes to PET bottle recycling in Kenya, a lot will sound familiar to North American audiences: demand for food-grade RPET outpaces supply, collection remains a challenge, and companies want to shorten supply chains. 

PepsiCo will increase its RPET use in Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Aquafina drink bottles in the U.S. in 2023, the company announced. 

Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo and other big beverage brands achieved California's mandate to use 15% PCR in their bottles last year, but the list of smaller brands that failed to hit the target - or even report data to the state - stretches over 500 companies long. 

The U.S. plastic bottle recycling rate was 28.2% in 2021, up 1 percentage point from a year earlier, according to an industry report released April 11.

Market analysis firm Gartner says shipments of new PCs plummeted during the first quarter of 2023, with brand owners offering steep discounts to clear out inventory. An analyst estimates prices will rise moderately through this year, however.

When the CEO of electronics reuse and recycling company R3eWaste decided to license the firm's operations management software to the industry at large, he recognized that no competitors would bite if R3eWaste still used it. 

Nursery Supplies, Inc., which recycles tens of millions of pounds of plastic per year into plant pots and trays, has been sold by one private equity firm to another. 

The U.S. plastic bottle recycling rate was 28.2% in 2021, up 1 percentage point from a year earlier, according to an industry report released April 11. The increase in the bottle recycling rate was driven by PET bottles, the data shows. The country recycled about 28.7% of PET bottles in 2021, up 1.6 percentage points from 2020. The HDPE bottle...

Recycled-content mandates in a handful of states will have a "halo effect" that stimulates brand owner demand for recycled materials elsewhere. That's one of the reasons WM feels confident investing $1 billion into its recycling business over four years, company executives said.