The Malaysian and Vietnamese governments have followed through on plans to clamp down on recycled material shipments. Both countries have stopped issuing new import permits for certain materials.
Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].The Malaysian and Vietnamese governments have followed through on plans to clamp down on recycled material shipments. Both countries have stopped issuing new import permits for certain materials.
PepsiCo has scaled up its commitment to The Recycling Partnership, and a leader at the beverage company says the money will be geared toward improving local programs.
A major southwest city is looking to develop a facility that will process the city’s mixed plastics stream through plastics-to-fuel or mechanical recycling. It has received three proposals.
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.