Hard-to-Recycle Materials

A major newspaper calls for the most-populous U.S. state to ban EPS packaging, and a study finds toxic flame retardants...

A major retailer agrees to look for alternatives to EPS foam packaging, and Greenpeace once again hammers Coca-Cola over end-of-life...

Hamstrung by regulatory setbacks in Pennsylvania and New York, Nulife Glass is in the midst of a major restructuring effort...

At least three critical issues confront the European PET recycling market, and one of them is having a profound impact...

A package of equipment from New Jersey-based Foam Cycle aims to help organizations, including municipalities, with their expanded polystyrene (EPS)...

For near infrared sorters, black as a color may not be the problem so much as the type of black...

A process of recycling expanded polystyrene for use as a filter medium was the subject of a recent TED talk....

Clothing and shoe company Timberland talks about its plan to use plastic recovered from the streets of Haiti, and The...

A group that includes major consumer brands wants to connect with a sorting facility to help advance the recovery of...

A Canadian community removes EPS from its curbside recycling program, and Greenpeace offers the soda industry a big thorn and a...