The Philadelphia MSW and recyclables sorting facility operated by Continuus Energy.
Markets for mixed paper and plastics have been hard hit by China’s import restrictions. Now, a Texas company is working to develop a new domestic one: paper-plastic building panels.
Projects advancing plastics and scrap electronics recovery will receive funding through a federal initiative to save energy and support U.S. manufacturing.
MRFF has found a MRF.
The Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF) project will partner with a Pennsylvania sorting facility to generate bales of flexible plastic packaging (FPP). Continue Reading
Two public agencies recently analyzed two key recycling challenges: end markets for glass and multi-family recycling collection. Although the agencies looked at specific regions, their findings are applicable to the wider recycling industry.
Large piles of CRT glass at Closed Loop’s S 59th Ave. site in Phoenix. Photo from 2016.
Major cathode ray tube tonnages left behind by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sit in warehouses in Arizona and Ohio as regulatory and legal action continues.
California officials will slow their process of crafting mandatory recycling rules for packaging, citing upheavals caused by China’s import restrictions.
A glass recycling company backed by a billionaire is betting big it can significantly lift U.S. glass recycling through the use of technology and rail transportation.
North Carolina-based Plastic Revolutions is expanding to separate certain resins from mixed plastic bales, a response to growing supply as China’s import policies take hold.
There’s a growing worry among MRF operators, and it has nothing to do with commodity markets: Lithium-ion batteries are causing fires and explosions at facilities nationwide.
Parties working to reopen an idled plastics recovery facility in Maryland are going back to the drawing board after a possible investor withdrew from talks.