Greystone Logistics is installing grinding and pelletizing equipment so it can purchase more lower-cost scrap polyethylene, as opposed to recycled resin. And Unifi is opportunistically buying PET bottle bales while it works to pass feedstock cost increases on to buyers of its recycled polyester.

A chemical recycling research project concluded that a partial depolymerization technique can break down scrap PET in a relatively short time and under mild conditions with little energy use.

Colorado’s recycling market development program gave its top award to a company that has GHG reduction and glass recycling baked into its business.

Citing decreased demand for alcohol, aluminum can maker Ball Corporation will close two of its older U.S. beverage can plants.

A sold-out Resource Recycling Conference kicked off this week with in-depth explorations of how public policy and technology advancements are set to transform the recycling industry.

North America's largest haulers all reported substantial year-over-year recycling boosts during the second quarter, although revenue numbers cooled somewhat from earlier in the year.

The Glass Packaging Institute is developing a leasing model to help more MRFs finance glass cleanup systems.

Electrification is going to require huge amounts of copper in the coming decades, so much so that boosting mining, recycling and materials substitution together won't be enough to meet demand, according to a study.

Japanese company JX Nippon Mining and Metals has purchased one of Canada's largest e-scrap companies, eCycle Solutions. It's the second example in the past month of an Asian smelting giant acquiring North American e-scrap operations to ensure a steady supply of feedstock.

Washington, D.C. and Fayetteville, Ark. have been named the 2022 Program of the Year winners by Resource Recycling.