PRI 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. 

Berry Global increased its purchase of PCR by 28% in 2022, and now 3.4% of the packaging giant's total resin purchases are post-consumer plastic. 

A $10 million project at Plastic Recycling Inc. will build out a fully outfitted laboratory and install extrusion lines that will boost recycling capacity by 60 million pounds per year, company leaders said.

Another consumer products brand owner has been hauled into court over its marketing of plastic bags for use in recyclables collection. 

Seeing big business opportunities, the two largest garbage and recycling companies in North America will put tens of millions of dollars into expanding their downstream plastics processing capabilities in coming years. 

One of the biggest e-scrap smelters in the world boosted its consumption of scrap electronics by 14% last year, achieving the highest number in four years. 

A family of southwestern U.S. ITAD and e-scrap recycling companies dramatically increased their profit margins last year, on both the reuse and recycling sides of the business. 

A company with a unique process for extracting metals from printed circuit boards announced it is planning to grow and expand aggressively across the U.S., after years of keeping a relatively low profile.

California regulators will double the subsidy paid to PET recycling companies, citing the lower prices that bottle bales are fetching on the market. 

The installation of the first PET wash line in the Dominican Republic will allow a local reclaimer to process a sizable percentage of all bottle scrap generated in the country into food-grade flake.