Hard-to-Recycle Materials

A recycling program in Virginia expands its plastics scope, and a materials recovery facility in Ontario pushes back against bags...

In its first full year of operation, British Columbia's printed paper and packaging recycling program notched a 77 percent recovery...

Plastic foam isn’t going out of style, and one forecast predicts steady growth in the global recycled plastics market. Foam...

A Quebec company using essential oils to prepare polystyrene foam for recycling has raised millions of dollars to build a...

Oregon's plastics recycling business goes global, and the pioneering work of a recycled plastics lumber researcher is chronicled. New plastic-to-fuels...

Canada collected more plastic for recycling in 2014 than it did the year before, with big boosts in curbside-collected film...

San Francisco has approved a wide-ranging ban on expanded polystyrene products. The ban, which was introduced in April to broaden...

In the upcoming November election, Californians will have two measures to vote on regarding the state’s historic plastic bag ban....

A wet shredder and hydrocyclone separation system from Herbold Meckesheim is helping a Netherlands reclaimer process film for recycling.

Equipment companies release innovative optical sortation technologies, and the Association of Plastic Recyclers recognizes research improving recyclability.