In other news: Dec. 5, 2016
A man is caught defrauding Germany's bottle redemption program, and one California city mulls zoning changes targeting bottle redemption centers....
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Federal prison system halts e-scrap processing at five sites
UNICOR, also known as Federal Prison Industries, has shut down its electronics recycling facilities at several prisons across the country,...
Commodity prices force closure of nonprofit e-scrap site in Florida
A south Florida nonprofit group that trains and employs people with disabilities is closing one of its e-scrap drop-off facilities...
Price drop seen in scrap plastic exports
The average value of recovered material sent to foreign markets is back under 17 cents per pound. Volumes are up...
PetroChem Wire: Recycled HoPP prices pushed down
HoPP repro and regrind prices fell last week on an oversupply of recyclable post-industrial and post-consumer PP scrap in many...
Declines continue in scrap exports
Numbers for the first nine months of the year show volume drops in all materials but paper. In September, the...
Sims official covers keys to providing ITAD services
When Sims Recycling Solutions begins talking with an IT asset disposition client, Sims staff will ask what the customer did...
Wide world of plastics recycling: Nov. 15, 2016
Soccer uniforms made of recycled ocean plastics make their Spanish debut, and a German company sees decreased demand for recycled...
Push and pull in paper
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In My Opinion: Calling for truce in war against OEMs
For much of the past decade, manufacturers have had a "piñata problem" whenever electronics recycling issues arose in state legislatures....
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