Hard-to-Recycle Materials

Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology are developing a high-speed automated system to disassemble and recycle clothing.

After years of collecting textiles from households, Ridwell is now asking customers to self-sort the items into re-wearable and recyclable...

Cathode ray tube devices, long the major headache material for the electronics recycling industry, continue to make up less and...

The city of Omaha recently added paper take-out cups to its list of accepted items for recycling, with locally owned...

Many MRF operators cite batteries as their greatest challenge, and for good reason. Fires at waste management facilities have been...

As recycling companies seek to improve workplace safety amid an industry-wide increase in on-the-job fatalities, experts at a recent industry...

With its first U.S. mechanical recycling facility for film in the commissioning phase, Canada's Nova Chemicals is focusing on making...

With its first U.S. mechanical recycling facility for film in the commissioning phase, Canada's Nova Chemicals is focusing on making...

In an effort to raise polystyrene recycling rates, the Plastics Industry Association has created a Polystyrene Recycling Alliance. 

More than a year after a long-running public-facing film and flexible packaging drop-off directory went dark, a new consumer guide...