This story originally appeared in the March 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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A new materials recovery facility in San Diego is sorting single-stream material from commercial and multi-family sources. Fibers and films make up a substantial portion of those streams, necessitating a specially built sorting system.
This story originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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Due to challenging market conditions and technology constraints, the Atlanta division of secondary plastics recovery company QRS has declared bankruptcy.
Dow Chemical Co. has developed an advanced barrier pouch that can be recycled through retail PE collection streams.
This story originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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The federal government will invest up to $70 million in a new research institute focused on reducing recycling costs and boosting recycled content in manufacturing.
An artificially intelligent optical sortation device has started sorting some of the millions of pounds of batteries collected across the U.S. by stewardship group Call2Recycle.
Innovators in the resin realm often get a bad rap for prioritizing functionality over recyclability. But according to one bioplastics executive, end-of-life is still top-of-mind for many companies developing cutting-edge materials.
A startup is using robotics, artificial intelligence and the cloud to combat recycling contamination at one of its sources: public collection bins.