WestRock consumes millions of tons of OCC and other recovered fiber each year, so the paper products giant would love to know as much as anybody else what the future has in store for bale pricing. 

Citing difficult market conditions, paper product manufacturer ND Paper is temporarily halting or reducing production at some of its U.S. mills.

Oregon's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that expands and revamps the state's extended producer responsibility law for electronics. 

Best Buy has launched a program through which consumers can purchase boxes to ship scrap electronics to ERI for recycling. 

Metals producer Mitsubishi Materials purchased a stake in a startup working to build a smelter in Indiana. Meanwhile, the company unveiled plans to substantially increase e-scrap recycling capacity at its Japanese smelters.

The California carpet recycling rate rose by about 5 percentage points last year, reaching a record high of 33%. Meanwhile, carpet manufacturer Shaw reached a deal to recycle about 2 million pounds of production scrap a year. 

Plastic Recycling Inc. will invest $2 million to install an e-plastics sorting line in South Carolina, part of the company’s longer-term push to boost domestic recycling capacity for e-plastics.

A packaging industry group, local governments and a paper mill operator are working together to bring curbside paper cup recycling to programs throughout the Carolinas.

A sprawling MRF under construction in Central Ohio will provide Rumpke Waste and Recycling with plenty of room to spread out - spread out recyclables on the belt, that is. That strategy can help automated sorting technologies work more effectively. 

In the future, e-scrap processors in California could receive state money to recycle electric toothbrushes, electronic greeting cards, toys and a host of other items with embedded batteries, state regulators recently suggested.