A woman is fined for trying to recycle cardboard, and a beer company creates sand from used bottles.
A woman is fined for trying to recycle cardboard, and a beer company creates sand from used bottles.
A U.K. coffee chain begins collecting post-consumer coffee cups at its 2,000 locations, and an Eastern European country has a long way to go to meet the continent’s diversion goals.
An article exploring the impacts of glass at materials recovery facilities and a couple of pieces looking at China’s imports crackdown were among the headlines that drew our readers’ interest.
Due to a combination of longtime flouting of contamination levels in paper bales being sold and shipped to Chinese consumers and internal economic and political pressures in the country, those same bales are increasingly being rejected by Chinese customs inspectors.
WestRock Co. has agreed to purchase recycled fiber company SP Fiber Holdings, continuing a recent spate of paper industry mergers and consolidations.
Pratt Industries, which makes paper and packaging from 100 percent recycled materials, last week held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its latest mill.
Brand owners will have to cut bigger checks over the next year to support curbside recycling in Canada’s most populous province.
A trade group for paper sack manufacturers has made publicly available a recycling symbol and information kit on recycling.
Tissue manufacturer Cascades will open a $64 million operation outside of Portland, Ore. to produce both virgin and recycled-content tissues and paper towels.
This Saturday, April 22 marks Earth Day, an event that was first celebrated in the U.S. 47 years ago. Industry entities are marking the occasion with efforts that range from impactful to flat-out quirky.