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About Colin Staub

Colin-StaubColin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Trex expands film drop-off guide into searchable database

Published: September 25, 2024
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Last year, Trex sourced 328 million pounds of PE through all its channels, and it recently released a drop-off guide to help increase that volume. | Joyce Blessthink/Shutterstock

A major processor and end user of recycled PE film has rolled out a user-friendly guide showing film drop-off locations nationwide, seeking to bolster its feedstock source through consumer education. Continue Reading

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Greystone reports higher sales, lower feedstock cost

Published: September 18, 2024
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Plastic pallet maker Greystone Logistics has facilities in Iowa, Missouri and Indiana. | Courtesy of Greystone Logistics

A processor and end user of recycled PE benefited from lower recycled plastic prices and greater demand for the company’s pallets during the most recent fiscal year. Continue Reading

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Logitech increases use of recycled plastics

Published: September 5, 2024
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Logitech reported using 30,800 tons of post-consumer recycled plastic in 2023. | Hernan E. Schmidt/Shutterstock

Logitech upped its use of recycled plastic last year, including e-plastics recovered from end-of-life electronics, according to its recently released impact report.  Continue Reading

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Troubled Myplas film plant to reopen under new owners 

Published: September 5, 2024
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A shuttered film processing facility once owned by Myplas is set to be revived by GDB International. | Saravutpics/Shutterstock

A Minnesota plastic film processing facility that experienced a high-profile failure early this year will reopen with longtime plastics recycling company GDB International at the reins. Continue Reading

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Q&A: Comparing recycling and renewable energy

Published: August 28, 2024
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A plastics recycling executive who advocated for California’s post-consumer resin mandate draws distinctions between the recycling and renewable energy industries. Witsarut Sakorn/Shutterstock

Although regulations that scaled the renewable energy market share some conceptual similarities with post-consumer resin mandates, one longtime plastics recycling stakeholder argues there are key differences creating unique challenges for plastics recycling. Continue Reading

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Nonprofit recycling operators talk plastics and policy

Published: August 21, 2024
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Martin Bourque of the Berkeley, California-based Ecology Center spoke about challenges in plastics recycling during a short film produced for the Alliance for Mission Based Recycling. | YouTube

MRF operators linked by an organizational belief that recycling is just one part of materials management recently hosted a film screening and discussion that touched on policy, chemical recycling and the nuances of alternative collection systems like TerraCycle and Ridwell.

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Recovered plastic exports flat in first half of 2024

Published: August 7, 2024
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PET bales stacked for recycling.

Recovered plastic exports out of the U.S. totaled 481 million pounds in the first half of the year, up about 1% from 475 million pounds during the same period in 2023. | Menzl_Guenter/Shutterstock

More than half the recovered scrap plastic that left the U.S. during the first half of 2024 stayed in North America, as Canada and Mexico continued to be the largest buyers of U.S. material. Continue Reading

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Mars projects it will also miss 2025 target

Published: August 7, 2024
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Candy containers from Berry Global and Mars.

As of 2023, 61% of Mars packaging is designed to be recyclable, reusable or compostable, up from 57% in 2022 but significantly short of 100% by 2025, and the company used an average of 1.5% recycled content across its packaging portfolio, significantly short of 30% by 2025. | MarsMM/Shutterstock

Brand owner Mars says the design and infrastructure changes that are needed to meet its recycling goals are “taking longer than we anticipated” – and that it will miss certain goals it set for 2025.

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Eastman plans to broaden chemical recycling plant’s inputs

Published: July 31, 2024
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Empty PET bottles for recycling.

Eastman’s Kingsport, Tennessee plant uses methanolysis to chemically recycle PET. | Monticello/Shutterstock

In their latest earnings call, Eastman representatives said the company’s chemical recycling facility in Kingsport, Tennessee, is ramping up to 100% capacity and is gearing up to take in a “broader set” of uncommonly recycled plastics. Continue Reading

Recycling firms unite against reusable plastic bag ban

Published: July 2, 2024
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The Responsible Recycling Alliance is calling for California lawmakers to abandon Senate Bill 1053, which would expand the state’s bag ban to prohibit reusable bags made from 40% post-consumer resin. | Huguette Roe/Shutterstock

Seeking to quash a regulatory change that would remove over 100 million pounds of North American post-consumer resin demand per year, EFS-Plastics, Merlin Plastics and PreZero US have joined together to advocate for retaining recycled-content reusable plastic bags in California’s bag regulations. Continue Reading