The average price of mixed-paper bales jumped up by 21% this month, and natural HDPE has notched another record value.
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The average price of mixed-paper bales jumped up by 21% this month, and natural HDPE has notched another record value.
Glass bottle maker O-I uses “Green Bond” money to buy cullet, stakeholders explain the glass recycling process to the public, and the Glass Recycling Coalition releases its latest industry survey results.
Some of the largest packaged goods and retail firms increased their use of recycled plastic in 2019, but they have work to do to hit 2025 targets, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation update.
This story has been updated with new redemption figures from California’s recycling agency.
Advocacy organization Consumer Watchdog recently noted the COVID-19 pandemic has slashed California’s beverage container recycling rate. But the state’s recycling agency called that analysis “inaccurate.”
Vietnam, a relatively small market for U.S. mixed paper, will no longer allow imports of the material beginning in 2022. The restriction does not appear to affect OCC, which the U.S. ships to Vietnam in far greater quantities.
Articles about government and private-sector groups proposing recycling fixes, along with market analysis, drew readers’ attention last month.
PepsiCo spent about $200 million of its “Green Bond” to purchase recycled PET plastic over the past few years, according to the company.
A Canadian packaging firm will expand with a paper machine producing 400,000 tons per year of containerboard and other corrugated products.