Resin company DAK Americas, recycled-content thermoforms producer Direct Pack and MRF operator Recycle Source have become the first three recipients of grants from the PET Recycling Coalition.

Aluminum recycling company Hydro Extrusion USA pleaded guilty to an air pollution crime and agreed to over half a million dollars in penalties. Federal prosecutors in August 2022 charged the company, which is part of Oslo, Norway-headquartered aluminum giant Norsk Hydro, with one count of Clean Air Act negligent endangerment. The charge stemmed from the company melting contaminated aluminum scrap...

Resin company DAK Americas, recycled-content thermoforms producer Direct Pack and MRF operator Recycle Source have become the first three recipients of grants from the PET Recycling Coalition. The Recycling Partnership's PET Recycling Coalition launched a year ago to provide funding to boost PET recycling in the U.S. Modeled off the group's Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, the PET counterpart is also funded...

The total and per capita weight of scrap electronics collected in Washington state continued to decline last year.

A new law allows the federal government to provide surplus and repairable used computers directly to nonprofit refurbishers, who will then provide them to individuals in need. 

A branch of the European Union wants to end all exports of recovered plastics within the next four years, a move that would undoubtedly disrupt trade with the U.S. One company leader suggested the impacts could hinge on what the EU decides to consider "waste."

A major producer of recycled HDPE lumber has rolled out a product with a seashell-inspired wood grain pattern.

A branch of the European Union wants to end all exports of recovered plastics within the next four years, a move that would undoubtedly disrupt trade with the U.S. One company leader suggested the impacts could hinge on what the EU decides to consider "waste." The European Parliament on Jan. 17 voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to update...

ERI has opened a processing facility outside of Phoenix, marking the company's ninth U.S. plant and its first in the southwest region. The company's CEO said more recycling locations are coming. 

An $11.2 million cleanup, $9.6 million property sale and $1 million "orphan share" - those were just a few key figures to emerge as the years-long legal battle over Closed Loop's massive stockpile concludes.