Public and private entities regularly sample waste streams to glean data on the plastics that could be captured for recycling. Now, guidelines have been developed to standardize the process so results can be compared.
Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for 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 [email protected].Public and private entities regularly sample waste streams to glean data on the plastics that could be captured for recycling. Now, guidelines have been developed to standardize the process so results can be compared.
Firstar Fiber has an appropriate name.
Its Omaha facility was the first in Nebraska to install optical sorters, and it was the first MRF in the state to embrace robotic sorting technology.
When are local governments responsible to help pay for the cleanup of material they collected and sent to a recycling company? A trial in South Carolina may answer that question with regard to scrap electronics.
Yale University researchers estimate 230 million metric tons of MSW were landfilled in the U.S. in 2015, nearly twice the estimate from federal officials.
Citing market upheavals this year, Erie County, Pa. officials are asking people to stop putting glass in their curbside receptacles.
U.S. fiberglass insulation manufacturers continue to consume great amounts of post-consumer recovered glass.
Stock preparation equipment to be used at Pratt Industries’ new Ohio mill.
Construction is well underway on a massive containerboard mill in Ohio that will consume recovered material.
The hazards of needles to MRF sorters are well recognized, but new research puts an estimate to just how many workers are injured by them each year.
Today, Penn Waste’s MRF in central Pennsylvania is a very different facility than it was three short years ago (or maybe they were long years, given the challenges the industry has seen of late).
This story has been corrected.
The U.S. and China have fired their latest salvo in their ongoing trade war, and this time tariffs have been applied to a number of additional U.S. recyclables.