California officials say they intercepted two semi-trucks carrying used beverage containers from Arizona to California, where they were going to be illegally redeemed.
Jared Paben has been a staff writer and photographer at Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at jared@resource-recycling.com.California officials say they intercepted two semi-trucks carrying used beverage containers from Arizona to California, where they were going to be illegally redeemed.
A nationwide multi-family garbage and recycling collection company has been fined by a state for allegedly tossing recyclables in the trash.
Ann Arbor, Mich. may be trucking its single-stream material to a materials recovery facility in Ohio for the foreseeable future. That’s because it isn’t ready to invest more than $2 million into its MRF, which is in need of repairs and upgrades.
If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then Athens Services’ MRF is the other man.
One of the world’s largest used beverage can recycling facilities has gotten even larger and is now capable of recovering 20 percent of all aluminum cans sold in the U.S.
The product stewardship group at the center of British Columbia’s recently reshaped curbside program has taken on a new moniker.
No joke: On April 1, a U.S. state and a Canadian province will implement some big changes to their beverage container deposit programs.
An industry group has launched an online survey asking municipal and state governments, MRFs and glass companies about their local experiences with glass recycling.
Using an advanced visioning system and deep-learning capabilities, a robot is now picking an average of one carton a second off a container line at a Denver-area MRF. It may be an early look at the future of materials processing.
Personal care product company Garnier is working with TerraCycle and a nonprofit group to help consumers keep plastic out of the trash stream.