The recycling rate for aluminum cans reached its highest level in 17 years, although an estimated $800 million worth of the metal is still landfilled each year.
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The recycling rate for aluminum cans reached its highest level in 17 years, although an estimated $800 million worth of the metal is still landfilled each year.
A microbrewery in Georgia is the first company to use a “high-recycled” content aluminum can from Novelis.
A city in Tennessee wants to get glass out of its single-stream system, and a Hawaiian county eliminates several recycling programs.
*Update: WM’s Bill Caesar on the story behind the purchase, here.
In a move that will shape the recycling industry in many parts of the country, particularly in Texas, Waste Management has bought Greenstar Recycling and all of its assets.
In a blockbuster announcement yesterday, Waste Management has purchased Greenstar Recycling, the owner of a dozen materials recycling facilities (MRFs) in seven states. With the buyout solidifying Waste Management’s position as America’s largest processor of residential and commercial recyclables, Resource Recycling followed up with Bill Caesar, president of Waste Management Recycle America, to learn more.
Vermont regulators have chosen Call2Recycle to manage the nation’s first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries.
Representing a dozen battery manufacturers, battery stewardship organization Call2Recycle will submit to Vermont regulators a plan for the collection and recycling of single-use batteries.
The North American product stewardship group Call2Recycle collected a program-best 12.6 million pounds of batteries in 2015, a 5 percent increase over previous-year figures.
Year-over-year expenditures for California’s Beverage Container Recycling Fund exceed revenues by approximately $100 million, according to data presented at a recent Container Recycling Institute webinar.
A recent national study points to a growing consumer expectation that manufacturers act as a central cog in pushing for the recycling of product packaging.