The Recycling Partnership provides some tips on how to weather the upcoming ban, and ISRI says meeting a 0.3 percent contamination limit is impossible.
Last month, readers were drawn to content about a much-publicized plastics recovery facility suspending its operations and a beverage company’s interest in supporting recycling infrastructure.
Yukon territory adds milk jugs and bottles to its deposit program, and the Container Recycling Institute organizes an art installation to raise awareness about marine debris.
Another container redemption center shutters in Connecticut, and an Oregon company inks a deal to supply its styrene monomer extracted from recycled polystyrene.
The Closed Loop Fund invests in end markets for often-landfilled mixed plastics, and a chemical company develops recyclable films for making food pouches.
An environmental group leader in Hong Kong raises concerns about China’s proposed import prohibition, and an agricultural plastics recycling program finds success in Minnesota.