Plastics

By tweaking existing equipment, materials recovery facilities could reduce the amount of flexible film packaging landing in their fiber bales,...

The California legislature passed a bill requiring beverage companies to publicly report the amount of post-consumer PET they use. And...

A grocery store on a small Canadian island is operating without the use of plastic, and the head of an...

Curbside recycling can put additional collection trucks on the road. But the recycling process ultimately brings environmental benefits that far...

This story originally appeared in the July 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content....

Price and volume totals for the exports of most materials continue to lag levels from a year ago. In May,...

This story originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content....

One publication examines what a "Brexit" could mean for waste diversion efforts in the U.K., and Unifi expands global distributions...

A pair of bills in Massachusetts could have some impact on recovery. One mandates reductions in statewide per-capita waste generation...

According to the European Commission, an estimated 100 billion plastic carrier bags are used in the European Union every year...