Two reclaimers have recently made or are planning multi-million-dollar upgrades at their California PET recycling facilities. The following are details on the projects by Evergreen and Peninsula Plastics Recycling.

An international group is sounding an alarm for help for the recycling industry amid high costs, particularly for energy.

Under a legal settlement submitted this week, warehouse owners will drop their CRT lawsuit against Samsung, LG and MRM. E-scrap processor Kuusakoski, however, will pay another $1 million.

An international group is sounding an alarm for help for the recycling industry amid high costs, particularly for energy. In a press statement, the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) said its members across different facets of the recycling industry expressed concern at the recent World Recycling Convention about how high energy prices are affecting them. According to the BIR, the problem...

California last year started a unique program of providing cash payments to materials recovery facilities that produce ultra-clean PET bottle bales. Recently released data suggest the payments aren’t juicy enough morsels.

The state of Connecticut is supporting a unique approach to organics diversion: collecting food scraps and garbage in separate plastic bags placed in the same curbside container. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) awarded nearly $5 million in grants to help municipalities around the state begin organics collection pilot programs.  According to a DEEP press release, many...

An international group is sounding an alarm for help for the recycling industry amid high costs, particularly for energy. In a press statement, the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) said its members across different facets of the recycling industry expressed concern at the recent World Recycling Convention about how high energy prices are affecting them. According to the BIR, the...

Another OEM and an electronics recycling company have agreed to help fund cleanup of CRT materials abandoned by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery in Columbus, Ohio.

Apple has released products made with recycled metals, is reiterating a call for its suppliers to become carbon neutral and plans to adopt USB-C chargers to comply with European Union law.

Two reclaimers have recently made or are planning multi-million-dollar upgrades at their California PET recycling facilities. The following are details on the projects by Evergreen and Peninsula Plastics Recycling.