After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. Continue Reading
After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. Continue Reading
Online e-commerce giant Amazon released an update on its sustainability goals, announcing it has hit its goal of replacing plastic air pillows with paper filler throughout North America.
Although the North American containerboard market saw a surge of new recycling machines in 2023, producers are waiting to see how the market develops before investing in new capacity, according to experts at Fastmarkets. Continue Reading
U.S. demand for recovered fiber is healthy and will continue to grow in the near future. But prices have plateaued or dipped of late, as domestic fiber supply has caught up and China’s economic slowdown has reduced overseas demand. Continue Reading
A Quebec paper mill has converted a newsprint machine to produce 132,000 short tons of recycled kraft paper per year, sourcing post-consumer fiber from eastern Canada and the Northeast U.S. Continue Reading
A recently launched design feedback resource from the Recycled Materials Association has three key objectives: to decrease contamination at MRFs, increase quality of bales sent to paper mills and provide immediate feedback to producers about the recyclability of their packaging. Continue Reading
Major recycled paper mill operators have seen a significant financial impact from rising recovered fiber prices this year. But in recent earnings calls, publicly traded firms say the roller coaster market is entering a flat stretch. Continue Reading
Bloomberg Intelligence has once again estimated a significantly lower OCC recycling rate than the paper manufacturing sector, and it revised past years’ rates with an updated methodology. Continue Reading
Recovered paper exports angled downwards during the first half of 2024, as major overseas buyers decreased their purchases by as much as 30% year over year. On the plastics side, more than half the material that left the U.S. stayed in North America.
WM is planning a new $35 million MRF in the Portland, Oregon, area that will process up to 140,000 tons of residential materials annually and come on-line as early as December of this year. Continue Reading