An Iowa county reports higher participation one year after switching to single-stream collection, and the impact of China’s informal recycling collection sector is studied.
An Iowa county reports higher participation one year after switching to single-stream collection, and the impact of China’s informal recycling collection sector is studied.
A Canadian city brings in nearly $10 million through sales of recyclables, and a community attempts to educate residents to cut down on its costly contamination problem.
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A county of more than 700,000 residents cuts glass from its curbside recycling program, and Maryland’s governor reverses the state’s zero waste rules.
Recycling in an Arkansas community is reinstated after two years of controversial landfilling, and paper recovery varies widely in different parts of Canada.
Houston council members approve a contract continuing curbside recycling but jettisoning glass, and newspapers resist joining British Columbia’s printed paper and packaging stewardship group.
A MRF worker saves the life of a kitten, and the trend of container lightweighting comes to glass.
Regulators in British Columbia ramp up pressure on newspaper publishers to contribute to recycling funding, and New York City Council members will likely vote in early May on a plastic bag fee law.
A major industry merger lives on, but a mixed-waste MRF project in Ohio dies.
One of the world’s biggest fast-food companies is reportedly failing to meet its recycling obligations in British Columbia, and The Recycling Partnership provides cart financing in Michigan.
An Australian state will introduce a container deposit program next year and a city in Nebraska considers a landfill ban on paper.