Around 100,000 chopsticks are discarded in Vancouver, British Columbia every day, and that fact has led to a unique line of recycled products.
Around 100,000 chopsticks are discarded in Vancouver, British Columbia every day, and that fact has led to a unique line of recycled products.
As the weather heats up, sellers of recovered plastic and aluminum packaging are seeing flat to weaker pricing for their bales.
A coalition of public and private partners have formed the Ontario Circular Economy Innovation Lab (CEIL), an effort to coordinate recycling and packaging stakeholders.
Starting in October, shoppers in America’s largest city will be charged a nickel for each paper or plastic bag they are given at checkout.
Carey Hamilton, executive director of the Indiana Recycling Coalition and a board member of the National Recycling Coalition, has succeeded in her bid for a seat in the legislature.
Seattle collectors will no longer be allowed to flip the lid on residential garbage cans to look for banned compostables.
Education has won out over punishment in Little Rock, Ark., with hauler Waste Management announcing it will no longer track the households that are placing unacceptable materials into curbside recycling carts.
A significant retrofit at the GreenWaste materials recovery facility will feature heavy use of artificial intelligence sorting equipment and other technology.
Thousands of tons of materials were seized during a raid in the Chinese province of Guangdong last week. It’s the latest enforcement action taken as part of China’s ongoing campaign to combat low-quality recovered-material imports.
The recycling chief at Waste Management recently reflected on the company’s ongoing efforts to clean up the material stream. The takeaway: It’s a long slog.