An idled Washington newsprint mill will reopen to produce containerboard from recycled feedstock.
An idled Washington newsprint mill will reopen to produce containerboard from recycled feedstock.
OCC prices have remained stable for several months now, bringing some calm to what has been a wildly fluctuating market. But a supply glut may be preventing prices from climbing back up.
A Denver-area hauler and MRF operator will begin accepting coffee cups in the recycling stream from its commercial coffee shop customers.
Residential fiber values have flattened out, while post-consumer PET prices continue a steady recent climb.
A New York recycling company executive has pleaded guilty to felony charges connected to a dispute over contamination in recycling loads collected from a commercial client.
A Thai policy restricting the import of scrap plastics has proved effective. U.S. scrap plastic exports to the country dropped by 94 percent after the ban took hold.
Construction is well underway on a massive containerboard mill in Ohio that will consume recovered material.
A major Chinese fiber recycling company plans to purchase and restart a shuttered Kentucky pulp and fine paper mill.
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.