Aluminum recycling and rolling company Novelis has signed a deal to acquire Aleris, a major manufacturer of recycled-content aluminum products.
A Virginia newsprint mill will undergo a nearly $300 million conversion to produce recycled paperboard. The facility will use mostly OCC and some mixed paper as feedstock.
Export market shifts are slashing into recycling revenues for Waste Management and others, with poor fiber prices cutting one company’s recycling revenues in half.
The Malaysian and Vietnamese governments have followed through on plans to clamp down on recycled material shipments. Both countries have stopped issuing new import permits for certain materials.
PepsiCo has scaled up its commitment to The Recycling Partnership, and a leader at the beverage company says the money will be geared toward improving local programs.
A major southwest city is looking to develop a facility that will process the city’s mixed plastics stream through plastics-to-fuel or mechanical recycling. It has received three proposals.
The country’s recycling and composting rate remains stuck at just over 34 percent, according to the U.S. EPA.
An agricultural plastics collection company has expanded substantially in the past year, opening a processing facility in California and growing its collection volumes across the Midwest.