Pricing boosts continue to drive recycling revenues for North America’s three largest haulers. Meanwhile, company executives say they don’t expect China’s announced ban on certain scrap imports to inflict too much financial pain.
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Pricing boosts continue to drive recycling revenues for North America’s three largest haulers. Meanwhile, company executives say they don’t expect China’s announced ban on certain scrap imports to inflict too much financial pain.
Low commodity prices lead Australian recycling companies to stockpile recyclables, and a lack of multi-family recycling requirements turns recycling into a luxury amenity in Texas.
Four companies that submitted bids to sort and sell Houston’s curbside recyclables will get another crack at it, after some city leaders cried foul on the earlier bidding process.
Robotics may come to play a large role in the MRF setting during the next decade, driven by their ability to provide high-quality output and raise bale values. But there are other important technology changes afoot in sortation lines, according to a processing expert.
Early reports from auctions of recyclable plastic and aluminum packaging for August show some prices moving up slightly, while others fell back.
An innovation developed by Procter & Gamble to bolster polypropylene recovery is being put into action, with construction of an Ohio facility beginning last week.
This story has been updated.
As California moves forward developing mandatory policies for the recycling of packaging, regulators want public input on some of the criteria they should consider.
More than 50 U.S. recycling professionals will receive grants to attend the 2017 Resource Recycling Conference, a five-fold increase over last year.
Chinese authorities have announced the country will prohibit some grades of recovered paper and plastic from being imported by the end of 2017. One U.S. group said that action would have a “devastating impact” on the wider recycling sector.
Houston will undergo another round of bidding from companies interested in sorting and selling its curbside recyclables, and the editor of a local paper gets a firsthand lesson in the problem of contamination.