Report: Undersupply of PCR ‘stifling’ brand goals
A new report from Bloomberg's market research division provides further evidence of brand owners struggling to meet stated recycled content...
Research
Berkeley researchers vaporize PE, PP into feedstock
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a chemical process to vaporize PE and PP into the feedstock...
Professor takes ABS from keyboards to cancer research
Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University-Singapore have come up with a novel product idea for recycled ABS – cell cultures...
UN: E-commerce growth drives e-scrap volumes
People living in developed countries generate more than 20 times as much e-scrap as their counterparts in developing countries, according...
National lab builds polymer database for recycling studies
A team led by U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory researchers is working to provide a baseline for plastic recycling studies...
MIT study: national bottle bill would boost PET recycling
A nationwide 10-cent deposit on PET beverage containers could push the recycling rate for the material to over 80% in...
Vinyl Institute awards grants, re-opens submissions
The Vinyl Institute has awarded almost $332,000 in recycling grants to three organizations to help keep PVC out of landfills...
Researchers use e-coli, other bacteria to recover rare earths
A team of Austrian researchers have developed what they describe as a "cost-effective" and non-polluting method to recover rare earth...
NERC: MRF bale values increased in first quarter
Average commodity prices rose steadily in the first quarter of the year, buoyed by national and regional trends, according to...
Oregon e-scrap recovery tonnage fell in 2022
The amount of material Oregonians disposed of in 2022 dropped significantly from the year before, mainly due to fewer building-destroying...
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