At the recent ISRI2021 online conference, an EPA official touched on environmental justice issues that affect waste and recycling facilities. | Surapol USanakul / Shutterstock
The U.S. EPA’s top environmental justice official has a message for recycling operators: Don’t wait for a conflict to arise to start engaging with the community that surrounds you.
ND Paper plans to install recycled fiber pulping capacity at its plant in Old Town, Maine. | Vitaliy Kyrychuk / Shutterstock
A virgin fiber mill in Maine will install a line to process more than 70,000 tons per year of recovered fiber – primarily OCC – for packaging production.
This month’s edition of “Women in Circularity” features Pam Francis, vice president of Schott Design and board president of the Indiana Recycling Coalition.
Michigan awarded nearly $5 million in grants to support recycling throughout the state. | RHIMAGE / Shutterstock
Public and private partners will spend millions of dollars to improve the recycling system in Michigan as part of a newly announced initiative.
Nearly 36,700 tons of residential recyclables were collected in D.C. in 2018 through curbside and drop-off efforts. | Imrans Photography / Shutterstock
The District of Columbia increased its residential diversion by over 2 percentage points in 2018, newly released data shows.
The new “Women in Circularity” series shines a light on women contributing to the development of the circular economy.
The U.S. EPA received 108 public comments as the agency seeks to revise its recycling rate calculation methodology. | janstarik/Shutterstock
If food scraps from households are composted, should that count in the nation’s recycling rate? What if they’re fed to livestock or processed in anaerobic digesters?
MRFs are enjoying higher prices for scrap paper, plastic and metal bales this month, with notable increases for OCC, PET and HDPE.
Vermont’s current deposit system may soon expand to cover almost all beverages. | Victoria Lipov/Shutterstock
This story has been corrected.
Legislation that expands a Northeast state’s container deposit law passed one chamber and has moved to the state Senate for consideration. The bill adds additional beverage types into the deposit program.
The U.S. exported 1.32 million short tons of recovered fiber in February, with India as the top destination. | MAGNIFIER/Shutterstock
U.S. exports of recovered plastic and paper remained consistent in February, despite global trade policy changes for both materials that went into effect at the beginning of the year.