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Tag Archives: Winter 2019

Market development in action

Posted on May 14, 2019

by Wendy Worley, Sandy Skolochenko and Timothy Shober

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Q&A: Invested in the industry

Posted on May 14, 2019

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Finding the funding

Posted on May 14, 2019

by Derric Brown

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Reclaimer in Focus: rPlanet Earth

Posted on May 14, 2019

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Posted in Print edition | Tagged processing, Winter 2019 |

Data Sort: Statewide recycling support activity

Posted on May 14, 2019

by More Recycling

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Posted in Print edition | Tagged research, Winter 2019 |

On demand

Posted on May 14, 2019

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The latest plastics recycling news

Mixed rigids and film recycling sites to open next year
A joint venture is set to launch two U.S. processing plants for hard-to-recycle plastics in 2020, bringing new outlets for lower-grade materials. Investments in the projects will total at least $90 million.
Recycled plastic end markets expand
A handful of manufacturers have made investments that will improve their consumption of recovered plastics.
HDPE bale prices continue to escalate
The price of recovered natural HDPE bales has climbed again, in some areas breaking recent records.
Plastics collectors continue to feel market pain
Depressed commodity markets continue to slash recycling revenues for the companies that collect, sort and sell curbside plastics.
Packaging EPR on the way in another Canadian province
New Brunswick will require that manufacturers pay for the end-of-life collection and processing of the packaging materials they produce.
Sweeping plastics initiative submitted in California
The CEO of West Coast hauler Recology teamed up with environmentalists to this week submit a proposed California ballot initiative taking aim at single-use plastics.
Circular Polymers to supply PET carpet fiber to Eastman
Densified PET fiber from post-consumer carpet will ride railcars from California to Tennessee, where chemical giant Eastman will feed it into a gasification process.