July brings mix of curbside plastic price trends
Bales of PET and natural HDPE containers are fetching higher prices, while color HDPE continues to slip downwards in value...
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Planned carton facility will create West Coast end market
By the second half of 2025, a new facility will be turning out roofing construction materials made from 1.5 million...
Washington mill to close, citing OCC prices, market demand
Just five years after converting to use 100% recycled fiber in containerboard production, McKinley Paper Company will idle its mill...
Tackling rural recycling transportation in Colorado
One of the biggest barriers to recycling in remote and rural areas is transportation. The Circular Economy Development Center is...
NERC: MRF bale values increased in first quarter
Average commodity prices rose steadily in the first quarter of the year, buoyed by national and regional trends, according to...
Platform aims to scale up recycling sector digitization
Matium last month began the commercial launch of a platform that digitizes many aspects of the plastics recycling trading business....
Platform scales up tools to digitize recycling sector
Matium last month began the commercial launch of a platform that digitizes many aspects of the plastics recycling trading business....
Lower hard drive demand pushes down Envela’s sales
Envela Corporation, which owns a number of ITAD and e-scrap recycling operations, reported lower sales of secondhand hard drives in...
ICIS expert’s takeaways from NPE 2024
After attending NPE 2024, ICIS's Emily Friedman walked away thinking that producers of durables are showing interest in recycled resins,...
Entering the digital age of buying and selling
Digital buying, selling and trading is the future of recycled commodity sales – but we're not in the future quite...
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