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Kelly Semrau, SC Johnson
For years, the plastics recycling sector has aimed to keep plastic film out of curbside bins and carts, in an effort to both keep the material clean and avoid the well-documented problems bags and other items cause at recycling facilities.
Recycling organizations will try to sell Congress on the economic and environmental benefits of the U.S. EPA’s Waste Minimization and Recycling program, which is cut in President Trump’s proposed budget.
Operators of residential recycling programs report up-and-down pricing moves for recovered plastic and aluminum packaging.
Funding for a North Carolina recycling support program has been restored in the state House of Representatives’ budget proposal, a sharp departure from the Senate’s desire to slash the office entirely.
Three optical sorters and a variety of screening technologies form the upgraded backbone of a recently re-opened California MRF.
Discussion of how China’s National Sword campaign is affecting the North American recycling industry continued to draw our readers’ attention in May.
Materials recovery facilities have long been vocal about the impacts they’re seeing from a shifting waste stream. A new group is now aiming to elevate the voice of compost operations in that conversation.
How successful are existing sortation systems at separating flexible packaging? New research aims to answer that question.
This is the first in a series of four articles that will discuss three codependent variables that must be addressed as part of any attempt to capture food waste from residential, institutional or commercial settings. Continue Reading
Matanya Horowitz of AMP Robotics addresses the crowd at the Recycling Innovators Forum.
The third-annual Recycling Innovators Forum has awarded $20,000 to AMP Robotics, a Colorado-based startup that aims to provide low-cost robotic sortation options to the recycling industry. Continue Reading