Hard-to-Recycle Materials

The mayor of Chicago presented his 2017 budget proposal to the City Council last week and it includes a 7-cent...

This story originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content....

Another county has joined the WRAP (Wrap Recycling Action Program) initiative, an effort by the Flexible Film Recycling Group of...

Adding a thermal densifying unit helped improve the economics of expanded polystyrene recycling in Cochrane, Alberta. It increased the density...

A densifier innovation aims to boost the cost-effectiveness of transporting EPS plastic for recycling. Intco Recycling, based in Shandong Province,...

A research and development facility that recently opened in Europe aims to transform reclaimed plastics into higher-value applications.   Plastics...

Existing sortation equipment at materials recovery facilities could potentially be used to create bales of flexible film packaging, a study...

The Dow Chemical Company is committing nearly $3 million toward recycling education and outreach programs as well as research into...

Flexible film packaging is being accepted at the curb in one Midwest city, and thousands of plastic bags have been...

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