Plastics recycling stakeholders, it’s time to elevate your game. That was the message delivered in a variety of different ways from industry leaders in New Orleans last week.
Plastics recycling stakeholders, it’s time to elevate your game. That was the message delivered in a variety of different ways from industry leaders in New Orleans last week.
A college student has developed software allowing residents of a Florida community to verbally ask Amazon’s Alexa voice system whether an item is locally accepted for recycling.
This story originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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China’s recent crackdown on scrap material imports has exposed smuggling operations, led to dozens of arrests and resulted in the confiscation of more than 22,000 tons of material.
In a departure from the beverage giant’s long-standing position, Coca-Cola has announced its support for a container deposit program in the United Kingdom.
Higher commodity values helped lift recycling-related revenues for the third-largest hauler in North America.
A retrofitted facility outside Toronto will begin by targeting single-stream recyclables from multi-family residences but could evolve into a full-scale mixed waste operation in the future.
Machinex has installed two sortation lines at a facility in the U.K.: one taking in single-stream-collected materials and the other separating recyclables from trash.