The past week brought several significant recycled paper capacity announcements, indicating future domestic outlets for mixed paper and OCC.
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The past week brought several significant recycled paper capacity announcements, indicating future domestic outlets for mixed paper and OCC.
Multiple recovered fiber grades continued to decline in price over the past month. The same downward trend was seen for PET and HDPE.
Oregon’s container deposit system achieved an 81% redemption rate last year, significantly higher than the previous full-year figure. The increase comes after the deposit value doubled.
Multiple factors have led to lower demand for trucking, bringing shipping cost relief to many in the recycling industry.
London, Ontario approved a grant for a Hefty EnergyBag program, making it the first Canadian city to embrace the program for collecting hard-to-recycle plastics.
The longest-running container deposit program in the country expects to hit its highest redemption rate in years, shortly after the program doubled its deposit to 10 cents.
Federal trade statistics released last week show U.S. export volumes for the first six months of 2019. Recycled plastics have seen a major drop when compared with figures from a year ago.
A glass recycling facility will pay $1.2 million to settle allegations of improper disposal of batteries, which shouldn’t have arrived at its facility in the first place.
A mix of stories covering legislation, recycling markets and paper mills drew readers’ interest last month.
Waste Connections and Advanced Disposal Services have continued to suffer from lower commodity prices. Casella Waste Systems, however, charged enough in fees to overcome the market pain.