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.
Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].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.
The U.S. will enact tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products beginning July 6. Vowing retaliation, China released its own list of U.S. products to target in July.
The recycling industry must make large-scale facility investments to adapt to the fast-changing world of materials recovery, according to a longtime MRF consultant.
Import duties have taken effect on machinery, components and billions of dollars of additional products shipped to the U.S. from China.
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