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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Certain tools such as pay-as-you-throw pricing and multi-family requirements have produced compelling diversion results in communities across the country. Leaders of several programs recently shared advice for colleagues who hope to achieve similar success.
A shuttered mixed-waste MRF has been sold to the city of Montgomery, Ala., and multiple companies are interested in running the facility either as a traditional MRF or mixed-waste plant.
A representative from a European firm that has felt the direct impacts of China’s import restrictions on recovered plastic recently offered an inside look at the fallout from the unprecedented disruption to industry trade.