A leader with Waste Connections said that his company has seen increased collection volumes during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Resource Recycling file photo.
Two large publicly held waste and recycling companies are taking in higher residential volumes during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they say contamination has been flat. Recently, they’ve also started seeing critical upticks on the commercial side.
Crossroads Paper CEO John Sasine speaks at an event July 10 announcing the paper mill. | Credit: Brenden Brunnette.
A containerboard mill using entirely OCC and mixed paper is in development in Utah. The project stands as a rare case of a recycling company expanding into the end market sector.
With 14 robots connected to 10 vision systems, Single Stream Recyclers (SSR) in Sarasota, Fla. has more robots under one roof than any other MRF.
A Florida company leveraging 14 robotic sorters is among the first recycling facilities to use the technology on fiber lines, boosting the value of paper bales.
Waste Management’s quarterly recycling revenues dropped 27% year over year | Ken Wolter/Shutterstock
North America’s largest garbage and recycling company experienced deepening pain from depressed recycling markets during the third quarter.
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A major Iowa newspaper has explored how hammered recyclables markets forced Mid America Recycling to send paper to landfills this year.
Scene from ISRI2019 in Los Angeles.
Stakeholders from a variety of recycling industry sectors convened for the annual ISRI2019 convention last week. Here are some takeaways from the residential recycling portion of the event.
A 2017 photo of equipment inside the Recology Pier 96 MRF in San Francisco.
Recycling facility operators across North America continue to scramble to install systems aimed at hitting the higher quality standards buyers are demanding.
The B25 machine, which produces recycled corrugated medium and linerboard for packaging, at the Biron, Wis. mill. | Courtesy of ND Paper
ND Paper is boosting its appetite for recovered fiber bales by engaging in a machine conversion project at a Midwest mill that is expected to be completed later this year.
