An agricultural plastics collection company has expanded substantially in the past year, opening a processing facility in California and growing its collection volumes across the Midwest.
Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].An agricultural plastics collection company has expanded substantially in the past year, opening a processing facility in California and growing its collection volumes across the Midwest.
Strategic Materials shut down its Franklin, Mass. facility last month, a development caused by the closure of a massive bottle manufacturer nearby.
The largest paper companies in China have announced temporary closures due to recovered fiber shortages, and Southeast Asian governments are taking steps to stem the skyrocketing volume of recyclables they’ve imported this year.
The Chinese government has released a proposal to completely ban imports of recovered fiber and every other form of “solid waste.”
Projects advancing plastics and scrap electronics recovery will receive funding through a federal initiative to save energy and support U.S. manufacturing.
In the midst of a recycling market downturn, a growing number of small municipal programs across North America are moving away from single-stream at the curb.
The U.S. recycling market disruption from China’s import restrictions has received mainstream media attention since the beginning of 2018. But recently, the issue has engaged a handful of right-leaning opinion writers.
An Ontario group recently looked at market factors shaping the domestic plastics recycling industry in 2017, and it offered predictions about where things are headed.
Opinions vary widely on the best tactic to record a program’s diversion progress. An expert recommends returning to the basics with a relatively simple calculation that shows areas for improvement.
Two public agencies recently analyzed two key recycling challenges: end markets for glass and multi-family recycling collection. Although the agencies looked at specific regions, their findings are applicable to the wider recycling industry.