U.S. fiber and plastic exports continued to fall in 2022
Companies exported a little less recovered fiber and a lot less scrap plastic last year, recently released trade data shows.
Trade & Tariffs
EU-to-US scrap plastics trade under threat
A branch of the European Union wants to end all exports of recovered plastics within the next four years, a...
Judge: Company must pay for rejected exports
A federal judge ruled that a Burnaby, British Columbia company owes an international shipping company $4.3 million Canadian dollars over...
EU-to-US scrap plastics trade under threat
A branch of the European Union wants to end all exports of recovered plastics within the next four years, a...
Key CRT recycling pipeline is no longer active
TDM, a Mexican company that has recycled millions of pounds of CRTs from the U.S., closed its CRT recycling business...
US scrap plastic exports continue to fall
U.S. companies exported about 22% less scrap plastic during the first nine months of this year, continuing a trend of...
Fiber and plastic exports drop 8% and 22%
U.S. companies exported less scrap paper and plastic during the first nine months of this year, an analysis of federal...
The new export debate
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content. For...
Data Corner: The ongoing decline in US scrap plastic exports
The U.S. continued to ship less scrap plastic overseas during the first half of this year, federal trade data shows....
Thailand moving ahead with plastic scrap import ban
Officials in the Southeast Asian country’s government are taking action to ban imports of scrap plastic by 2025, according to...
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