A local program practicing source separation describes its low-contamination advantage in light of Chinese import restrictions, and Orlando, Fla. is chosen as the site of a diversion-driving pilot project.
One report indicates that buyers in China are desperately seeking domestic sources of recovered paper. Meanwhile, low-value plastics are flooding the European market, but processors there have limited ability to handle those loads.Features from the August 2017 print edition:
- Buying in
- Community Spotlight: How one SoCal beach town takes on diversion challenges
- Data Corner: How the US and EU stack up on pricing
- In My Opinion: Bringing nuance to the numbers
- MRF of the Month: Eureka Recycling, Minneapolis
- Picking dignity
- Step by step
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The National Recycling Coalition made a handful of important announcements during the Resource Recycling Conference in Minneapolis last week.
Chinese importers enter their fourth month without renewed import quotas, and ISRI says meeting a 0.3 percent contamination limit is impossible.
Recycling processors report that early September pricing for recovered plastic and aluminum packaging rose slightly over August levels.