Ideally, a product should find its way into the recycling stream only when it has truly reached its end-of-life. This is why reuse matters so much: Reuse gives a second life to the products we use every day by finding effective and creative ways to utilize, repurpose and distribute them.
The National Recycling Coalition held its board of directors’ election at the Resource Recycling Conference, leading to the election of nine members.
Recycling is one of those words that remind us of the famously used phrase from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, which he used to describe his threshold test for obscenity. “I know it when I see it,” Stewart wrote in 1964.
Carton manufacturers are reporting more Americans have access to carton recycling.
Carton recycling is now available in 45 states nationwide, according to the Carton Council.
Tens of thousands of people around the country are owed millions of dollars in unpaid appliance rebates after the failure of a major appliance-recycling company, court documents show.
Projects that improve polypropylene packaging recovery are eligible for substantial financial support from the Closed Loop Fund.
Using an advanced visioning system and deep-learning capabilities, a robot is now picking an average of one carton a second off a container line at a Denver-area MRF. It may be an early look at the future of materials processing.
The polls have closed, the pundits are silent (sort of) and the ballots have been counted. But one question remains: What to do with all those political yard signs?
This story originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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