Waste Management’s recycling business revenues came in at $342 million during the first quarter, up 35% year over year. | 2p2play / Shutterstock
Higher commodity prices drove year-over-year recycling revenue increases for North America’s largest garbage and recycling companies.
Prices for curbside plastic bales shot up over the past month, with PET bottles jumping by nearly one-third and natural HDPE notching another record.
Researchers estimate over 74 billion PET bottles were landfilled, burned or littered in the U.S. in 2019. | Teerasak Ladnongkhun / Shutterstock
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A new report estimates that a nationwide bottle deposit program would reduce the number of drink containers each American wastes to 67 per year, down from 426 under the status quo.
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?