The Association of Plastic Recyclers has added partners to a campaign designed to encourage the use of recycled-content products.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers has added partners to a campaign designed to encourage the use of recycled-content products.
The world’s largest restaurant operator will increase recycling access at its food outlets and make packaging changes to lessen environmental impacts.
A study commissioned by Closed Loop Partners identifies strategies to enhance the PET bottle recycling system, allowing recycled PET to better compete with virgin plastic.
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.
Certain tools such as pay-as-you-throw pricing and multi-family requirements have produced compelling diversion results in communities across the country. Leaders of several programs recently shared advice for colleagues who hope to achieve similar success.
Waste and recycling haulers had slightly fewer fatal workplace injuries in 2016 than the year earlier, according to figures from the federal government.
Plastic packaging producer Berry Global has joined The Recycling Partnership, a move it sees bringing direct benefits to the company and improvements to the recycling system as a whole.
Chinese plastics recycling companies are considering processing infrastructure investments in Southeast Asia, the U.S. and elsewhere.
Multiple industry associations have renewed calls for China to reconsider its import restrictions in the weeks leading up to the country’s planned ban on certain recovered materials entering the country.
China is unprepared to effectively roll out and enforce its planned Jan. 1 ban on imports of certain recyclables, according to recycling leaders who recently traveled to the country in search of answers.