The City of Calgary’s curbside recycling program has accepted plastic bags since it was rolled out in 2009, but it has faced a recurring issue: residents tossing them in the cart loose, instead of in bundles. This year, an outreach campaign aimed to address the problem head-on.
Kelly Semrau, SC Johnson
For years, the plastics recycling sector has aimed to keep plastic film out of curbside bins and carts, in an effort to both keep the material clean and avoid the well-documented problems bags and other items cause at recycling facilities.
Operators of residential recycling programs report up-and-down pricing moves for recovered plastic and aluminum packaging.
Three optical sorters and a variety of screening technologies form the upgraded backbone of a recently re-opened California MRF.
Materials recovery facilities have long been vocal about the impacts they’re seeing from a shifting waste stream. A new group is now aiming to elevate the voice of compost operations in that conversation.
How successful are existing sortation systems at separating flexible packaging? New research aims to answer that question.
This story originally appeared in the April 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.
This story originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the January 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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