Plastics

Materials recovery facilities have long been vocal about the impacts they're seeing from a shifting waste stream. A new group...

The past few months have seen significant upticks in the value of recovered materials. Recovered paper markets have been volatile in...

CarbonLite, a reclaimer producing food-grade recycled PET, will double its processing capacity this year with the construction of a $62...

Plastic products sold in California with "biodegradable" and "compostable" printed on their labels cost Walmart nearly $1 million in a...

When it comes to plastic bag legislation, 2017 may be the storm after the storm. After the high-profile battle over...

A months-long string of rising prices for recovered materials has continued into February. The value of recovered plastics improved sharply...

Prince Charles promotes bathroom recycling bins, and a town in Eastern Europe accepts recyclable materials in lieu of utility payments....

Numbers on exported scrap totals continue to show 2016 lagging 2015 in terms of volume and value. With 3.54 billion...

The growing smiles you see among recycling collectors and processors are because of continuing market improvement. With oil and natural...

Recycling and waste-reduction advocates in Michigan were unable to stop passage of a bill that prohibits local ordinances limiting the...