A startup is partnering with municipalities to provide curbside collection of textiles and electronics, two streams rarely touched by traditional curbside haulers.
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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].
A startup is partnering with municipalities to provide curbside collection of textiles and electronics, two streams rarely touched by traditional curbside haulers.
Glass bottle manufacturer Owens-Illinois will close its plant in Atlanta, citing the costs of necessary capital investments and the continuing decline of beer in the U.S. market.
A $1 million loan from the state of California will help a small manufacturer boost its production of recycled-fiber-content bottles.
A new law in Iowa gives regulators statutory criteria they can use to determine whether companies are storing material for recycling or simply speculatively accumulating it.
Novelis, one of the world’s largest buyers of recovered aluminum, continues to increase its consumption of the material.
A major U.S. industry group has announced ambitious long-term goals related to the recycling of plastic packaging.
Two makers of solar-powered garbage and recycling receptacles have settled their patent-infringement dispute.
California officials will slow their process of crafting mandatory recycling rules for packaging, citing upheavals caused by China’s import restrictions.
A MRF at the heart of California’s agricultural region has been doing some growing of its own to handle increased volumes and complexity in the recycling stream.
A mixed-waste processing facility under construction in Maine will be among the first users of a new type of non-wrapping screen.