Six East Coast states experienced seven waste and recycling deaths in only the first week and a half of 2018, according to an industry group.
Six East Coast states experienced seven waste and recycling deaths in only the first week and a half of 2018, according to an industry group.
Bridget Anderson
New York City’s waste management systems have seen a lot of change since the 1800s, when all materials were loaded onto a barge, taken into the ocean and dumped overboard. That system is currently transforming once again.
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The U.S. plastic bottle recycling rate declined to 29.7 percent in 2016, continuing a downward turn that began a year earlier after more than two decades of solid growth.
The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate dropped from 30.1 percent to 28.4 percent in 2016, as the volume of new containers placed onto the market continued to increase.
A patent battle over solar-powered recycling and garbage receptacles has taken a new twist, as the defendant has countersued the plaintiff for the same allegations of patent infringement.
Municipal programs in the Pacific Northwest continue to feel the impacts of China’s import restrictions, and multiple local programs are halting acceptance of certain materials in response.
For Sonoco Recycling, which collects, sorts, and sells recycled materials, China’s imports restrictions have particularly stung in one area: mixed-paper bales.
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.
