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How can recycling programs across the country efficiently recover glass and overcome challenges in the value chain? Several stakeholders delved...

When it comes to materials processing contracts, the debate is often framed in black and white: taxpayers versus shareholders battling...

An area of Ontario has been able to significantly cut down on tonnages of recovered glass it sends to disposal,...

Sims Metal Management’s global e-scrap business saw depressed profits last year, and its U.S.-based electronics recycling operations lost money. Lower...

Major consumer brands say they could use nearly 300 million pounds of post-consumer polypropylene for non-food-contact applications over the next...

New York's Tekserve shut down this week after 29 years in business. The company was done in by sustained competition...

The Southeast region has welcomed a manufacturing operation that's hungry for recycled plastic. Custom Synthetic Fibers, a major polyester fiber...

Exported recovered plastics recently saw prices increase 12 percent year-over-year. Volumes, however, remain down. In June, the most recent month...

Some California beverage redemption centers report more difficulties, and we look at the presidential candidates' recycling bon mots and bonafides....

North America's two largest garbage and recycling companies say recovered materials values increased during the second quarter, giving them revenue...