ACC wants to hit 100 percent recovery for plastic packaging

Hitting 100 percent recovery will require major movement on the part of the wider plastics industry. For instance, the U.S. plastic bottle recycling rate was 29.7 percent in 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. That represented a decrease of 1.4 percentage points from the year before.

‘Sword’ takes another big swipe at US scrap exports

Adina Renee Adler, ISRI’s senior director of international relations, told Resource Recycling “all scrap shipments from all supplier countries (not just the United States) must be inspected before shipment.” With CCIC suspended, ISRI member companies have been left with no access to pre-shipment …