A newly formed business called Willamette Falls Paper Company will reopen the former West Linn Paper Company mill. | hxdyl/Shutterstock
A shuttered paper mill near Portland, Ore. will reopen this year, and the new operator has hinted the site will incorporate recovered paper feedstock as it scales up in the future.
The average blended value for recyclables at U.S. MRFs was recently calculated at around $35 per ton. | hiv360/Shutterstock
Between overseas import restrictions, tariff impacts and domestic market volatility, an erratic environment has become the norm for recycling operators around North America.
Olympia, Wash. | Christoper Boswell/Shutterstock
The Pacific Northwest has been hit hard by market downturns, driving lawmakers in Washington state to order an examination of how the state can fortify regional end markets and processing capacity. That research is now public.
Pace Glass will build a facility to recycle MRF-sourced glass into a variety of products. | pjhpix/Shutterstock
New Jersey-based Pace Glass is set to build a facility cleaning up MRF-sourced glass for use in containers, fiberglass insulation and other products.
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Various approaches to increasing end market material utilization are detailed in a report featuring interviews with stakeholders across the recycling chain.
Pacific Northwest recycling stakeholders met up last week to talk recycling markets, policy developments, outreach strategies and more.
Bill Moore at WasteExpo 2019.
North America’s residential mixed-paper prices are deep in the negative numbers in some areas. That pain will likely persist for some time, one analyst predicts.
A perfect storm of industry pressures, including declines in commodity prices and rises in freight costs, led a Canadian waste and recycling firm to shutter this week.
Some recovered commodities have experienced market fluctuations of late, but pricing for OCC and natural HDPE has remained flat.
OCC prices have experienced a slight uptick lately, but mixed paper remains at rock-bottom values. Meanwhile, recovered PET and natural HDPE markets remain stronger.