Data Corner: Impacts of full-service redemption centers in Oregon
To help fulfill their requirements under the Oregon bottle bill, beverage distributors joined together and formed the Oregon Beverage Recycling...
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Industry illness and injury rates hit record low in 2021
According to federal data, the waste and recycling industry injury rate fell in 2021, bringing it to the lowest point...
Fiber and plastic exports drop 8% and 22%
U.S. companies exported less scrap paper and plastic during the first nine months of this year, an analysis of federal...
Editor’s Take: The problem with the Greenpeace data
One of the country's most notorious environmental groups says no plastics should be considered recyclable. But our editor says the...
Editor’s Take: The problem with the Greenpeace data
One of the country's most notorious environmental groups says no plastics should be considered recyclable. But our editor says the...
Data Sort: US plastics processing by the numbers
According to recent research from chemical and energy market research firm ICIS, there are roughly 270 mechanical recycling operations in...
In My Opinion: The OCC rate is not up for debate
A recent analysis suggested the U.S. OCC recycling rate was not as high as previously reported, but an industry representative...
Data Corner: The new world order in recovered paper exports
According to recent analysis of federal trade data, U.S. companies exported 4.28 million short tons of recovered fiber (excluding recycled...
Analysts: US OCC recycling rate may be below 70%
Two corrugated industry experts have crunched the numbers and concluded that the OCC recycling rate is likely much lower than...
Industry group launches project to gather data, share solutions
Recycling doesn't work unless people can put material into the stream, so The Recycling Partnership is expanding its efforts to...
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