Two midsize jurisdictions are joining a program that collects plastics not currently accepted for recycling and sends them to energy recovery facilities. However, an environmental group is speaking out against the development.
The recycling industry has not escaped the fallout from a tight trucking market. Recent regulatory movement and a growing driver shortage have contributed to rising freight costs, just months after extreme weather impacted the shipping sector.
Recyclables exported out of the U.S. are moving to Southeast Asia, where reclaimers and mills are dramatically increasing purchases as China closes its doors to recovered materials. New figures illustrate that shift.
Tennessee’s fourth-largest city has removed glass from its single-stream curbside program.
Starting this year, all municipalities in New Jersey will be able to use one online platform to communicate recycling program information to their residents.
Six East Coast states experienced seven waste and recycling deaths in only the first week and a half of 2018, according to an industry group.Features from the December 2017 print edition:
- Community Spotlight: Emerald City evolves diversion with analytical assistance
- Data Corner: Chronology of the Great China Ban
- Intelligent additions
- Latin American evolution
- MRF of the Month: Boulder County Recycling Center
- Real impacts from artificial intelligence
- What’s left to recover?
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