WM is planning a new MRF in the Portland, Oregon, area that will process up to 140,000 tons of residential materials annually and come on line as early as December of this year. 

By the second half of 2025, a new facility will be turning out roofing construction materials made from 1.5 million pounds of post-consumer cartons per month on the West Coast.  

The Remade Institute got a federal financial boost to develop online e-scrap workforce training in multiple languages, targeting roles that don't require four-year college degrees. 

A nationwide 10-cent deposit on PET beverage containers could push the recycling rate for the material to over 80% in the next decade with a high level of bottle-to-bottle circularity, a MIT study suggested.

Draft federal legislation would set federal parameters around recycling labels on consumer packaging, and an industry group is pushing for it to preempt any state recyclability labeling laws

The NextGen Consortium is bringing together brands big and small to trial a city-wide reusable cup system in Petaluma, California. 

One of the biggest barriers to recycling in remote and rural areas is transportation. The Circular Economy Development Center is tackling the issue in Colorado with the Front Range Transload project.

Legislative sessions are winding down for the summer. Some bills covering electronics and batteries made it across the finish line this year, while others stalled out. Here's a roundup of what happened. 

Call2Recycle Canada recycled nearly 13.2 million pounds of batteries in 2023, its best year yet, the organization recently announced. 

This article appeared in the June 2024 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Local recycling programs have always experienced some level of fluctuation in how much and what variety of material they accept, but operators said a recent trend of program contractions and closures will need policy intervention to correct. Every month in the print edition...