A meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators got raided last week, sending tremors throughout the ocean shipping industry. The Club, the nickname for the bi-annual meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators, is a secretive alliance of the CEOs of the world’s top two dozen container lines. The Club never announces its meeting date or location, and...

A meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators got raided last week, sending tremors throughout the ocean shipping industry. The Club, the nickname for the bi-annual meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators, is a secretive alliance of the CEOs of the world’s top two dozen container lines. The Club never announces its meeting date or location, and...

A meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators got raided last week, sending tremors throughout the ocean shipping industry. The Club, the nickname for the bi-annual meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators, is a secretive alliance of the CEOs of the world’s top two dozen container lines. The Club never announces its meeting date or location, and...

The past few months have seen significant upticks in the value of recovered materials. Recovered paper markets have been volatile in recent weeks. A global shortage of bales at a time of rising demand for finished paper and paperboard led foreign and domestic recycling mills to boost prices at the start of the year to a five-year high. The value of...

A months-long string of rising prices for recovered plastic packaging has continued into February. The value of recovered plastics improved sharply in the second month, with the price for natural HDPE containers jumping about 8 percent to approximately 27 cents per pound (value of bales picked up in truckload quantities in the eastern U.S.). PET bottles are also worth more...

A months-long string of rising prices for recovered materials has continued into February. The value of recovered plastics improved sharply in the second month, with the price for natural HDPE containers jumping about 8 percent to approximately 27 cents per pound (value of bales picked up in truckload quantities in the eastern U.S.). PET bottles are also worth more this...

Even with the tough economic times of 2016, the electronics recycling membership of a key trade association remained fairly stable. E-Scrap News analyzed the published membership lists for 2015-16 and 2016-17 for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), and focused only on the pure-play e-scrap members (firms that are solely involved in electronics recycling). It's important to note, however,...

The growing smiles you see among recycling collectors and processors are because of continuing market improvement. With oil and natural gas prices moving slightly higher in the past weeks, the value of plastics continues to inch up. For example, materials recovery facility managers report they were offered about $10 per ton more for recovered HDPE and PET at the beginning...

Nigel Mattravers Legislation and technologies have led to more formalized e-scrap processing in China and Hong Kong, experts meeting in Macau said recently. But key challenges remain, particularly in China's new electronics take-back program. Electronics recycling leaders recently spoke about e-scrap developments in China and Hong Kong during the Electronics & Cars Recycling event, sponsored by ICM. The mid-November conference...

Two publicly traded firms making lumber and decking materials from recycled plastic and wood had differing financial results in the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2016. Trex, the world’s largest producer of these products, recorded quarterly sales of $106.2 million, up 13 percent over the comparable 2015 period. The Virginia-based firm said the improvement was primarily due to volume growth in...