An Oakland, Calif. resident dropped her lawsuit against Reynolds Consumer Product regarding the company’s recycling bags, but in Connecticut a similar case continues.
Reynolds Consumer Products has staved off one of the recent legal challenges to its Hefty Recycling bag marketing claims.
A collaboration will bring recycling collection for certain health and beauty products to 25 Walmart stores in four U.S. states. | Chanandra Ramsurrun/Shutterstock
In collaboration with Procter & Gamble and TerraCycle, Walmart is allowing customers in four states to recycle beauty product packaging in certain stores.
Sophia Del Pozo is chief marketing officer at RENUoil of America, a recycling business that joined the second class of Apple’s Impact Accelerator program. | Courtesy of Apple
Three recycling companies were among those chosen by Apple to join the tech titan’s business accelerator program.
News that Washington, D.C. and Fayetteville, Ark. were named the 2022 Recycling Programs of the Year drew attention last month. | Courtesy of the city of Washington, D.C.
The 2022 Program of the Year award winners, a sharp bale pricing downturn and other news drew our readers’ clicks last month.
The leader of the Association of Plastic Recyclers responds to an op-ed by The Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics. | Courtesy of Herbold Meckesheim
Fiber insiders Ryan Fox (left) and Myles Cohen on stage at the 2022 Resource Recycling Conference. | Big Wave Productions/Resource Recycling, Inc.
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Two corrugated industry experts have crunched the numbers and concluded that the OCC recycling rate is likely much lower than estimates published by the paper manufacturing sector.
For the second year in a row, Recycle BC observed “significant growth” in collected metric tons, with a 17% increase over the past two years. | Lightspring/Shutterstock
British Columbia’s paper and plastic packaging collection rates have rebounded after pandemic-related challenges, reaching a record-high recovery rate of just over 94%.
Some glass recycling advocates have withdrawn their support for proposed California bottle bill legislation in the wake of last-minute amendments. | Fotosr52/Shutterstock
Just days before the end of the legislative session, lengthy amendments were tacked on to California bottle bill expansion legislation, greatly increasing the cost of the program. In response, some previous backers rescinded their support.
