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Recycling trade platform adding e-scrap

Published: October 24, 2024
Updated: October 24, 2024
by Marissa Heffernan

Rebound members can now trade more recycled materials on the platform, including plastics, metal, glass, OCC and e-scrap. | New Africa/Shutterstock

After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. Continue Reading

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