Brand owners will have to cut bigger checks over the next year to support curbside recycling in Canada’s most populous province.
Brand owners will have to cut bigger checks over the next year to support curbside recycling in Canada’s most populous province.
In its first full year of operation, British Columbia’s printed paper and packaging recycling program notched a 77 percent recovery rate, beating the target set by the government.
After nearly three years of discussion and testing around paper recycling, the EU Reffibre initiative has wrapped up with a final conference in Germany.
Scrap plastics recently enjoyed a month-to-month rise in shipments abroad. Paper and metals, however, were marked by declines.
The Canadian city of Edmonton has been forced to eat its paper-recycling investment – millions of dollars – after the company it partnered with went bankrupt and no other firms stepped up to take over the plant.
This story originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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Climbing recycled paper prices contributed to the recent idling or closure of two newsprint mills, one in North America and one in Asia.
The product stewardship group at the center of British Columbia’s recently reshaped curbside program has taken on a new moniker.
This Saturday, April 22 marks Earth Day, an event that was first celebrated in the U.S. 47 years ago. Industry entities are marking the occasion with efforts that range from impactful to flat-out quirky.