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CAA publishes revised Colorado program plan

Published: July 8, 2025
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The plan includes additional information on how currently non-recyclable packaging will be brought into the program by 2030. | Natallia-Boroda/Shutterstock

Circular Action Alliance has submitted an amended program plan for meeting Colorado’s extended producer responsibility regulations for packaging. Public comment will open later this summer. Continue Reading

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Packaging Corp. to buy Greif containerboard segment

Published: July 8, 2025
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The deal will increase PCA’s ability to produce items using higher recycled content, and further Greif’s goal of focusing on its polymer offerings. | Max Zvonarev/Shutterstock

Packaging Corporation of America will buy Greif’s containerboard business, with the $1.8 billion all-cash deal expected by the end of PCA’s third quarter, in the latest development for an industry experiencing tumult.  Continue Reading

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Community Spotlight: Atlanta’s recycling still improving

Published: July 8, 2025
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The recycling program in Atlanta, Georgia, has continued to improve recycling rates, but still lags behind the national recycling rate. | Luisa P Oswalt/Shutterstock

Editor’s Note: Community Spotlight was a feature that appeared in the monthly Resource Recycling print edition for several years until mid-2020. This week, we are reviving it as a periodic feature in the Resource Recycling e-news. Have an idea for a municipal program that should be featured? Email us at [email protected]. Continue Reading

‘Operational readiness is high’ as Oregon rolls out EPR

Published: July 1, 2025
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Producer responsibility organization Circular Action Alliance plans to build a network of 144 PRO Recycling Centers, pictured, for hard-to-recycle items. | Photo Courtesy of Circular Action Alliance

Extended producer responsibility for packaging in Oregon is officially implemented, with the first dollars from producer fees flowing out to the communities most in need as of July 1. 

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Top stories from June 2025

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Bottle return at a reverse vending machine.

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Changes to Oregon’s container deposit program drew reader attention last month, as did coverage of end market demand concerns, a legislative effort to support a mixed-waste MRF, and extended producer responsibility analysis in the U.S. and Canada.

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Editor’s farewell: So long, but not goodbye

Published: July 1, 2025
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Marissa Heffernan moderates a panel at the 2024 Plastics Recycling Conference. | Big Wave Photography / Resource Recycling.

When I started working for Resource Recycling, I thought I knew quite a bit about recycling. After all, I grew up in a bottle bill state, turning in cans for candy money, and was the child checking neighbors’ recycling bins to make sure they were using it right. Continue Reading

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WM outlines investments in recycling infrastructure

Published: July 1, 2025
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WM truck on a city street.

During an investor presentation, WM leaders outlined investments in recycling and automation. | 2p2play/Shutterstock

Leaders at hauling giant WM discussed expansions in the company’s recycling infrastructure and automation at a recent investor day, expressing optimism for WM’s future as landfill closures increase demand for collection and recycling. Continue Reading

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Industry coalition focuses on small-format material recovery

Published: July 1, 2025
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The group will promote MRF upgrades and product design changes to facilitate higher capture of small packaging items, like metal bottle caps. | xpixel/Shutterstock

Led by the Glass Packaging Institute, a new initiative seeks to improve MRF sortation of smaller packaging materials that often get missorted and end up in the glass stream. Continue Reading

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