The amount of material Oregonians disposed of in 2022 dropped significantly from the year before, mainly due to fewer building-destroying wildfires, and electronics made up only 0.4% of the recycled materials.

After two years of trying – and some public pushing – iFixit ended its partnership with Samsung, citing the OEM's lack of commitment. 

The amount of material Oregonians disposed of in 2022 dropped significantly from the year before, largely due to fewer building-destroying wildfires, and about 2% of overall material was plastic. 

After attending NPE 2024, ICIS's Emily Friedman walked away thinking that producers of durables are showing interest in recycled resins, the plastics industry needs to add its voice to policy discussions, and there's growth on the horizon for both mechanical and chemical recycling capacity. 

The amount of material Oregonians disposed of in 2022 dropped significantly from the year before, but that was largely due to fewer building-destroying wildfires, according to the latest state Material Recovery and Waste Generation Rates report. 

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works committee asked questions about grants, private funding, support for rural communities and diverting food scraps during a May 22 hearing on local efforts to improve reuse and recycling.

Residents of Quebec City, Canada, are now served by the first commingled recyclables and organics collection system in North America, the system developer recently announced. 

A Texas company that started out in oil and gas drill bit reclamation has now diversified into recovering e–scrap and other industrial material streams, and it's adding facilities to house the growth. 

Digital buying, selling and trading is the future of recycled commodity sales – but we're not in the future quite yet, digital platform providers said at the 2024 Plastics Recycling Conference in March.  

WM has finished $23 million in automation updates at its Pittsburgh MRF, increasing the facility's hourly capacity by about 10 tons, up to 25 tons of material.