Associations update bale specs for fiber, plastics
The Association of Plastic Recyclers and the Recycled Materials Association have updated specifications for post-consumer plastic bales, following a collaborative...
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APR, ReMA update bale specs for PE rigids, film
The Association of Plastic Recyclers and the Recycled Materials Association have updated specifications for post-consumer plastic bales, following a collaborative...
Carton recycling access updated on CalRecycle report
California's recycling and waste management office has updated its report on accurate recycling labels to show an increase in counties...
California lawmakers look to quantify PCR imports
Amid a spike in post-consumer resin imports that reclaimers say is damaging the U.S. plastics recycling system, and allegations that...
Industry coalition focuses on small-format material recovery
Led by the Glass Packaging Institute, a new initiative seeks to improve MRF sortation of smaller packaging materials that often...
Q&A: With EPR incoming, end markets are crucial
In a wide-ranging interview, Keefe Harrison of The Recycling Partnership expressed concern over the state of recycled material end markets,...
EPR stalls out in NY Assembly again
The 2025 legislative session in New York ended, and legislators' hopes to pass extended producer responsibility for packaging this year...
Q&A: Industry at the ‘ceiling’ of what voluntary action can do
In a wide-ranging interview, Keefe Harrison of The Recycling Partnership expressed concern over the state of recycled material end markets,...
NY legislative session ends, again without EPR
The 2025 legislative session in New York ended, and legislators' hopes to pass extended producer responsibility for packaging this year...
Major plastic initiative sets sights on system change
Five years after its billion-dollar founding, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste is taking what it learned from one-off projects...
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