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The industry-led Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag conducted a three-month pilot project that implemented store signage, enlisted employees to help effect behavior change and included out-of-store marketing. | Photo by Nick Pizzolato
When retail stores encouraged consumers to bring their own bags or opt out of using one, nearly 5% fewer single-use plastic bags were used, according to a report from the industry-led Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag. Continue Reading
Novelis used about 2.3 million metric tons of recycled aluminum across its operations in 2024. | Pim Pic/Shutterstock
Novelis set a new recycled content goal across its operations of 75% by 2030 – a percentage that its rolled beverage sheet already exceeds. Continue Reading
Glass package transparency is key to ensuring proper sortation in a MRF, according to a recent study from glass recycling and packaging stakeholders. | Pornpawit/Shutterstock
A major recycled glass processor teamed up with a cosmetics giant to identify how cosmetics packaging is sorted in MRFs and which attributes are impeding greater recycling. Their findings offer suggestions for material design. Continue Reading
States with abundant wind energy also face issues relating to disposal of old turbine blades. | Rudmer Zwerver/shutterstock
As energy sourced from wind turbines grows, the issue of disposing of end-of-life blades also has increased in complexity and severity, spurring legal challenges and new technologies. Continue Reading
Glass packaging giant Ardagh in June notified Washington state authorities it would shut down its Seattle container plant, removing a local end market. | DimaSid/Shutterstock
After a bottle production plant in Seattle shuttered over the summer, a local glass beneficiation facility has lost demand for its cullet, leaving multiple area recycling programs without a downstream outlet for their glass. Continue Reading
Automation using AI, optical sorters and robotics can also help reduce compliance costs and improve revenue, AMP representatives said in a recent webinar. | Jantsarik/Shutterstock
MRFs looking to improve their profit and loss should consider automation, AMP representatives said in the third installment of the AMP Live Talks webinar series. Continue Reading
Rebound members can now trade more recycled materials on the platform, including plastics, metal, glass, OCC and e-scrap. | New Africa/Shutterstock
After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. Continue Reading
To hit its recycling goals, by 2030 the recycling industry will need to double the amount of glass it recovers nationally compared with where it was in around 2020. | Josep Curto/Shutterstock
Although glass has its share of unique challenges in the recycling system, brand owners in the glass space are facing all-too-familiar hurdles in figuring out how they’ll hit 2030 recycling and recycled content goals. Continue Reading