A major U.S. industry group has announced ambitious long-term goals related to the recycling of plastic packaging.
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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.
Adding recovered plastics to biomass in a gasification process can increase the quality and volume of the end product, according to an industry-funded study.
California officials will slow their process of crafting mandatory recycling rules for packaging, citing upheavals caused by China’s import restrictions.
Each year in early May, compost advocates globally join their voices during International Compost Awareness Week.
China has ratcheted up inspection requirements for recyclables imported from the U.S., requiring every load to be opened for inspection and shutting down the only organization providing pre-shipment approval in the U.S.
China’s import shifts have meant plummeting OCC prices, a fact that’s been a boon to the bottom line of U.S. mill owners. But paper executives aren’t expecting the scenario to necessarily become the new norm.
A legal petition seeking to block a major Waste Management trash-sorting facility in the San Francisco Bay Area has been denied.
ECS Refining, one of the nation’s largest e-scrap processors, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. But the move appears to be driven more by an ownership struggle than bottom line issues.
A glass recycling company backed by a billionaire is betting big it can significantly lift U.S. glass recycling through the use of technology and rail transportation.