Entropex, one of North America's largest plastics reclaimers, has laid off employees, ceased operations and will be put up for sale. The Sarnia, Ontario-based company has laid off most of its 155 employees and ceased operations. The firm, which worked out of a 180,000-square-foot complex, specializes in sorting and recycling non-bottle rigid plastics made from a variety of resins. It...

As recycled resin markets struggle, San Francisco leaders have called for a statewide bill mandating at least 25 percent recycled content in all single-use plastic beverage containers. The City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution asking state lawmakers to introduce and pass a bill mandating all single-use beverage containers have at least 25 percent post-consumer...

In its first full year of operation, British Columbia's printed paper and packaging recycling program notched a 77 percent recovery rate, beating the target set by the government. Meanwhile, in Ontario, the printed paper and packaging (PPP) recovery rate decreased slightly to around 65 percent, but that number still exceeded the target mandated by the province. Those were a couple...

In its first full year of operation, British Columbia's printed paper and packaging recycling program notched a 77 percent recovery rate, beating the target set by the government. Meanwhile, in Ontario, the printed paper and packaging (PPP) recovery rate decreased slightly to around 65 percent, but that number still exceeded the target mandated by the province. Those were a couple...

Product lightweighting is preventing manufacturers from increasing e-scrap collection volumes in Canada's most populous province. Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES), the province's producer responsibility group for e-scrap, collected 73,982 tons in 2015, down 5.5 percent from 2014. Per capita collections dropped to 10.6 pounds, down 8.6 percent from the year before."Particularly in the products that you and I use on a...

This story originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Computer software advancements have allowed intelligent robots to recognize their environments, enabling them to fly planes, drive cars and vacuum dirty carpets without human intervention. Why not put them to work in recycling facilities? Robotics companies in Europe and North...

Dow Chemical Co. has developed an advanced barrier pouch that can be recycled through retail PE collection streams. Dow recently announced the release of what it calls the Recycle Ready Advanced Barrier pouch, suitable for foods that need to keep oxygen and moisture out and aroma in. The pouches are eligible to carry the How2Recycle logo, which will indicate to...

A California bill aims to stem the tide of beverage container redemption center closures in the Golden State. But it also threatens the entire container-recycling industry in the state if lawmakers fail to make reforms by next April. Senate Bill 842, which passed the state Assembly on June 27 via a 75-0 vote, increases payments to redemption centers. Those outlets...

Dow Chemical Co. has developed an advanced barrier pouch with an embedded compatibilizer, allowing the EVOH/PE packaging to be recycled in traditional PE streams.

A California bill aims to stem the tide of beverage container redemption center closures in the Golden State. But it also threatens the entire container-recycling industry in the state if lawmakers fail to make reforms by next April. Senate Bill 842, which passed the state Assembly on June 27 via a 75-0 vote, increases payments to redemption centers. Many of...