The Recycling Partnership says $17 billion in funding for the domestic residential recycling sector could increase the national recycling rate to nearly 70%.
The Recycling Partnership says $17 billion in funding for the domestic residential recycling sector could increase the national recycling rate to nearly 70%.
Washington state has enacted a law requiring post-consumer recycled plastic be included in beverage containers, trash bags and some household products.
International Recycling Group, a company that’s developing a massive plastics sorting facility, inked a deal to offer on-demand curbside recycling of virtually all plastics.
The mixed-plastics processing sector is seeing supply challenges from product labeling changes and could be significantly disrupted by chemical recycling initiatives, according to one processor.
A leader at Coca-Cola estimates the beverage giant will approach 20% RPET use by the end of 2021.
BlueTriton Brands, formerly known as Nestlé Waters, announced that Ice Mountain products will be packaged using more recycled material.
Prices for curbside plastic bales shot up over the past month, with PET bottles jumping by nearly one-third and natural HDPE notching another record.
A digital tool developed by The Recycling Partnership and consulting firm Systemiq turns research into strategy for major brand owners and other companies.
Two state proposals under consideration in the Northeast get at a central question of extended producer responsibility programs for packaging: Should the government or private industry have more control?
The short seller who took aim at PET depolymerization startup Loop Industries has now published allegations against PP recycling company PureCycle Technologies.