The 10th largest city in the country has a diverse population that spans 180 square miles, yet it manages to achieve a 72 percent citywide diversion rate. The director of environmental services for San José says the key to achieving such a rate is simplicity. Kerrie Romanow has led the environmental services department for five years. Before that, she spent...

A small and diverse rural community along Lake Michigan is forging its own path when it comes to recycling. Emmet County’s Department of Public Works (DPW) started its recycling program back in the 1980s. It didn’t take the county long to realize it needed a dedicated leader if it wanted a self-sustaining and long-term program. Elisa Seltzer was hired 26...

The refurbished smartphone sector is expected to grow exponentially in the next three years, and a Seattle company aims to put its data analysis at the center of that development. Retrace tracks e-scrap, specifically used cellphones, throughout the global market to give refurbishers and other e-scrap companies better data to help them become more successful. E-Scrap News spoke to Michael...

An agricultural plastics recycling program in Minnesota is proving popular, with more than 100 farmers and dairies signing up in December. Dozens more businesses are expected to join at an event in February. In partnership with the Recycling Association of Minnesota, Revolution Plastics has started handing out dumpsters to ag plastic generators in Winona County, a largely rural county in the southeast...

In Waste Management's latest sustainability report, the hauling and recycling giant noted it will begin emphasizing the environmental impact of its materials diversion activities instead of metrics based on weight. According to the company's 2016 report, Waste Management (WM) recycled 14.0 million tons of material in 2015. That is down from 2014, when it recycled 15.1 million tons. WM's 2020 goal...

A Midwest electronics recycling executive lied to clients to generate large sums of money and used company funds for gambling and other personal expenses, according to court documents.Brian Brundage, former owner of Intercon Solutions and current owner of EnviroGreen Processing, both based in the Chicago area, is charged with five counts of income tax evasion and six counts of fraud....

Over the summer, the state of New York announced it would hand out $3 million in grants to help local governments recycle electronics. Nearly $2 million of that money is still available. The money comes from the state's Environmental Protection Fund and is meant to help municipalities cope with expenses not covered by the state's extended producer responsibility program for...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) are teaming up to provide real, comprehensive data on the global flow of used electronics. "The genesis for this is that there is a need for a definitive study that provides data on e-scrap recycling around the world, by region, and also the trade between regions,"...

The How2Recycle label, a project of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), celebrated many milestones in 2016, including a big boost from Walmart. The retail giant is now encouraging its product suppliers to use the label, which clearly tells consumers if and how they should recycle packaging. The How2Recycle label also went bilingual with a rollout in Canada, and it has...

The How2Recycle label, a project of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), celebrated many milestones in 2016, including a big boost from Walmart. The retail giant is now encouraging its product suppliers to use the label, which clearly tells consumers if and how they should recycle packaging. The How2Recycle label also went bilingual with a rollout in Canada, and it has...