The Windy City’s recycling rate sees another drop, and some residents are unhappy with the way Charlotte, N.C. wants OCC placed in the cart.
The U.S. officially withdraws from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and an Oklahoma community struggles with high rates of contamination in curbside carts.
Market recovery is on display in a Colorado city, and a recycled-content manufacturer pledges major investments in the U.S.
Paper recycling hit new heights last year, according to the latest data from the American Forest & Paper Association.
A trade group for paper sack manufacturers has made publicly available a recycling symbol and information kit on recycling.
After nearly three years of discussion and testing around paper recycling, the EU Reffibre initiative has wrapped up with a final conference in Germany.
This story originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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