by Colin Staub
The city of Tulsa, Okla. was forced to redirect its residential recycling stream to a waste-to-energy plant after an improperly discarded battery sparked a blaze at a local MRF.
by Jared Paben
Leaders at the Northeast Recycling Council recently explained how they’ll use a new scholarship fund to help boost racial diversity in the next generation of recycling industry professionals.
by RecyclingMarkets.net Staff
MRFs are enjoying higher prices for scrap paper, plastic and metal bales this month, with notable increases for OCC, PET and HDPE.
by William Turley
Market development is a key trend across recycling, but several issues unique to the C&D realm have sparked action on that side of the sector.
by Beth Coddington
Over the past several years, industry stakeholders have been working on a pilot initiative to see how flexible plastic packaging recovered at the curb would behave in a large MRF. Here are the takeaways.
by Calvin Lakhan
Advocates of EPR for curbside materials have noted the producer-funding approach encourages recycle-friendly design and system efficiency. But one academic researcher in Canada calls those points into question.
by Colin Staub
Cooperation and coordination between local governments has helped boost materials recovery in the Green Bay, Wis. metropolitan area.
By Melissa Ann Schmidt
The solar recycling sector is in its early stage of development, but it’s never too early to plan for the future. With exponential growth of PV waste expected in the coming decades, now is the time to build sustainable recovery systems for this material.
