Congress has passed a bill reauthorizing a marine debris program. The legislation also asks President Trump to work with other countries on international waste management solutions.
Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Congress has passed a bill reauthorizing a marine debris program. The legislation also asks President Trump to work with other countries on international waste management solutions.
Public and private entities regularly sample waste streams to glean data on the plastics that could be captured for recycling. Now, guidelines have been developed to standardize the process so results can be compared.
A year after an online scrap plastics trading marketplace launched, an executive at the startup offered insight into where material is moving in the aftermath of China’s ban.
A Utah recycling company is targeting bales of resins Nos. 1-7, possibly filling a critical void in the plastics recovery chain.
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Two Canadian depolymerization startups recently signed significant deals to advance commercialization of their technologies.
Some beverage brand owners are moving toward 100 percent RPET bottles, but one of the country’s largest PET reclaimers says the magic number may be half that amount.
A German manufacturer of electronics and appliances reported it is using recycled plastics, including nylon from fishing nets, in a number of products.
A draft European Union law limits traces of a flame retardant in products to such a low level that it would effectively kill e-plastics recycling on the continent, two industry groups said.
Yale University researchers estimate 32 million metric tons of plastic were landfilled in the U.S. in 2015, significantly more than the estimates from federal officials.
Water management is a solid end market for recycled plastics.