Green Tech Solution is developing a recycling facility in Blacksburg, S.C.
A Chinese investment firm is planning a $75 million recycling plant to process scrap plastics, electronics and other materials.
Green Tech Solution is developing a recycling facility in Blacksburg, S.C.
A Chinese investment firm is planning a $75 million recycling plant to process scrap plastics, electronics and other materials.
Nine Dragons will purchase its first U.S. recycled paper mill just a couple months after entering the U.S. market with its acquisition of virgin fiber facilities. The company offered details in an interview.
A Chinese company will open a plastics recycling facility in Georgia, the latest instance in a growing trend of Chinese investment in North American processing infrastructure.
The head of Waste Connections says the economics of recycling must change. Otherwise, companies’ sorting costs will further outpace the revenue they fetch from commodity sales.
This story has been corrected.
The U.S. and China have fired their latest salvo in their ongoing trade war, and this time tariffs have been applied to a number of additional U.S. recyclables.
A major Chinese fiber recycling company plans to purchase and restart a shuttered Kentucky pulp and fine paper mill.
After Resource Recycling highlighted conservative commentators who questioned the foundations of materials recovery, a number of industry professionals jabbed back, noting the economic strengths still inherent in recycling.
Governments in Southeast Asia are following through on promises to heavily restrict scrap imports. Meanwhile, a U.S. senator has singled out a shuttered West Coast paper mill as a possible outlet for recovered fiber.
This story has been updated.
The Chinese government plans to levy a 25 percent tariff on U.S. shipments of OCC and other recovered fiber, as well as scrap plastic, in retaliation for the latest U.S. tariff proposals.
China is proposing tariffs on U.S. pulp made from recycled paper, a material that has received recent attention as a potential export to China to replace recovered paper bales.