The $4.25 million grant to upgrade FCC Environmental’s Houston MRF will enable better recovery of plastic film. | Photo Courtesy of FCC
Hauler FCC Environmental Services has been awarded a $4.25 million grant from The Recycling Partnership (TRP) to improve film and flexible plastics recovery at its materials recovery facility (MRF) in Houston, representing TRP’s largest single grant to a MRF. Continue Reading
Reverse vending machines are one component of some deposit return systems | Aleks333/Shutterstock
In an active year for legislation aimed at reducing plastic pollution and waste, recycling stakeholders have a bevy of lessons to draw from, even with bills that have come under attack or didn’t quite pass. Continue Reading
Fire Rover analyzed nine years of data to discover trends in recycling facility fires. | Photo courtesy of Boston Fire Department
Across North America, recycling and waste management facilities are experiencing an increase in reported fires, with 2025 predicted to reach a new annual high. A recent special report by Fire Rover highlights this trend, attributing the record-high reported numbers and escalating financial risks to factors such as lithium-ion batteries, escalating demands from insurers and inadequate control measures. Continue Reading
Among the areas of concern for the Global Plastic Action Partnership is improving conditions for workers in the informal recycling sectors common to developing countries. | Pradeep Gaurs/Shutterstock
Since its founding in 2018, the Global Plastic Action Partnership, part of the World Economic Forum, has worked to address plastic pollution in developing countries, creating a network of partnerships across Latin America, Asia and Africa.
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The expansions will bring the company’s annual capacity to 165 million pounds of RPET resin. | Photo courtesy of Circularix.
RPET producer Circularix has completed commercial startup of its second food-grade pelletizing facility, located in Ocala, Florida, and announced it will expand capacity at its flagship site in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
The draft regulations have seen several iterations, drawing criticism from industry stakeholders. | Ultrasto/Shutterstock
California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has opened the public comment period for its latest draft of regulations for the state’s extended producer responsibility law for packaging, which have drawn criticism from industry stakeholders.
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Keurig Dr Pepper is acquiring JDE Peet’s, and after the acquisition closes Keurig Dr Pepper will separate into two independent publicly traded companies – one for refreshment beverages and the other solely for coffee.
Novolex is closing a former Pactiv Evergreen manufacturing facility in Bakersfield, California.
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) and the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) announced they had reaffirmed their partnership to improve safety and health for workers in the waste and recycling industries.
The Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Baldwin County, Alabama, has opened the state’s first Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHaRM), offering residents a staffed convenience center for items not accepted via curbside recycling.
Hauler WM announced that CFO Devina Rankin is planning to retire and David Reed will succeed her.
Mechanical recyclers across North America have the capacity right now to recycle significantly more plastic, says APR CEO Steve Alexander. | Natallia Boroda/Shutterstock
Plastics recycling works — when the system works with it.
That’s not a slogan. It’s a reality backed by data and by decades of experience from the companies and communities that make up the plastics recycling value chain.
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