The details on a $1.8M MRF upgrade in Midwest
A tight labor market, aging equipment, an evolving ton and difficult recyclables markets have spurred a Michigan county to upgrade...
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NERC survey offers insight into today’s MRF economics
An average ton of recyclables in the northeastern U.S. is worth $46, according to the Northeast Recycling Council. The estimate...
Michigan provides $2.8M for recycling projects
A state-of-the-art MRF, a recyclables sorting robot, resumed glass collections - these are a few projects that recently received grants...
Recology to the rescue after resident recycles $23,000
With tough commodities markets, residents around the country are being asked to drop more cash into their recycling service, but...
Recycling firm plunges into papermaking with $320M mill
A containerboard mill using entirely OCC and mixed paper is in development in Utah. The project stands as a rare...
Project provides deeper plastic sort of one city’s stream
A handful of industry groups and plastics producers are teaming up on a 60-day effort to try to capture a...
Q&A: Rolling with the markets
This article originally appeared in the April 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Kerry Getter...
How recycling robots have spread across North America
Over just a few years, robotic sorting has gone from a gee-whiz laboratory curiosity to a key technology in a...
Florida MRF meets local and regional demand
More than two years after a single-stream sorting facility launched on the coast of Florida, a funding partner has reported...
Waste Management unveils major merger
The largest residential garbage and recycling company in North America plans to get a lot bigger with a nearly $5...
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