The Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that 40 percent of municipalities included in a research set have programs aimed at diversion of food material. And those cities are not all in regions considered hotbeds of environmentalism.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that 40 percent of municipalities included in a research set have programs aimed at diversion of food material. And those cities are not all in regions considered hotbeds of environmentalism.
A Canadian company acquires additional sorting facilities and a hauling operation, and a survey looks at how facilities handle glass.
The National Recycling Coalition made a handful of important announcements during the Resource Recycling Conference in Minneapolis last week.
Chinese importers enter their fourth month without renewed import quotas, and ISRI says meeting a 0.3 percent contamination limit is impossible.
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Jeff Eager
Recycling decisions tend to be made on the local level by nonpartisan leaders, but national politics – and fundamental ideological differences – still shape the dialogue. A recent study of local government agendas showed stark differences between left-leaning and right-leaning communities when it comes to action around materials diversion.
Recycling processors report that early September pricing for recovered plastic and aluminum packaging rose slightly over August levels.
Details and predictions about China’s import restrictions drew our readers’ attention last month.
A common complaint about China’s restriction on scrap materials imports is the lack of solid information about what exactly the upcoming ban will target. A Canadian plastics group is taking data-gathering into its own hands.
Rob Kaplan
In less than half a decade, the Closed Loop Fund has become a household name in the recycling industry, putting sizable capital behind a range of materials recovery initiatives. A leader from the investment effort recently put the fund’s path into perspective.
An industry-backed pilot project is taking the next step to develop artificial intelligence on single-stream sort lines.