Over the past several years, a handful of Oregon counties decided to switch to curbside battery collection to avoid fires. Universal Recycling Technologies has been processing some of the collected tonnage.

Neatco Engineering Services is using a combination of human and machine learning to improve e-scrap sorting.

Five brands have partnered with a nonprofit and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find a way to keep small plastic items in the recycling stream.

Several chemical recycling facilities, offtake agreements and technology licenses have been announced in recent weeks, with industry giants like Shell and LyondellBasell involved.

A survey by the Canadian government found that stakeholders and citizens want better recyclability and compostability labeling.

Redwood Materials has secured a major loan from the federal government, with some strings attached, to help build out its Nevada lithium-ion battery recycling campus.

A year after it went into effect, Vancouver, British Columbia is moving to end its 25-cent fee on single-use coffee cups. 

Kruger packaging aims to produce 200,000 tons of recycled material each year at its facility in Place Turcot, Québec. | BAO Images Bildagentur/Shutterstock Kruger Packaging will manufacture 100% recycled saturating kraft board after it modernizes a Montreal mill. The Canadian company will spend over $30 million Canadian dollars (about $22.3 million U.S. dollars; all figures below in USD) to install...

Redwood Materials has secured a major loan from the federal government, with some strings attached, to help build out its Nevada lithium-ion battery recycling campus. 

Apkudo, which helps companies manage connected devices, announced it received $37.5 million in Series C funding.