Call2Recycle to manage Vermont single-use battery program
Vermont regulators have chosen Call2Recycle to manage the nation's first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries. The Vermont Agency...
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FTC makes final ruling on plastics additive case
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Ohio-based ECM Biofilms was wrong in the past for claiming its additives...
EU innovation singles out food-contact bottles in recycling stream
Researchers have developed fluorescent coating that could allow for fast, automated sorting of food-contact PET from non-food-contact PET in mixed...
APR changes name to better reflect its reach
When it comes to its moniker, a key plastics recycling group hopes less is more. The Association of Postconsumer Plastic...
Industry bites back after New York Times recycling column
By challenging the economic and environmental value of recycling, New York Times science columnist John Tierney has poked the recycling...
Plastics-to-fuel group adds member, changes name
The renamed Plastics-to-Fuel and Petrochemistry Alliance (PFPA) has added a new member to the growing group. Formerly the Plastics-to-Oil Technologies...
NRC election results are in
The National Recycling Coalition held its board of directors' election at the Resource Recycling Conference, leading to the election of...
Closed Loop Fund announces $7.8 million in recycling loans
The Closed Loop Fund, a recycling-focused investment group founded by nine major corporations, has made its first significant funding announcement....
Research to explore how MRFs can sort flexible packaging
How successful are existing sortation systems at separating flexible packaging? New research aims to answer that question. A number of...
Report: Life span of average flat-panel TV is 10 years
New estimates on the time it takes for a flat-panel display TV to enter the U.K. waste stream have been...
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