“After Helene, communities across western North Carolina are dealing with damaged recycling facilities and enormous amounts of storm debris scattered …
Mattress-topper recycling pilot diverts waste, reduces emissions during move out
Across the first two years of a pilot mattress-topper recycling program, Penn State recycled more than 1100 mattress toppers and diverted nearly …
US Plastics Recycling Shifts to Domestic Processing
Domestic Recycling Growth Reshapes US Recyclable Plastics Trade Patterns. According to Plastics Industry Association Chief Economist Perc Pineda …
Op-Ed | Albany shouldn’t make groceries more expensive in the name of recycling
The food industry supports practical solutions that improve sustainability and strengthen recycling systems. But lawmakers should not ignore the real- …
Recycling your old phone is too hard. Here’s why – Yahoo Finance
Half the country has no e-waste law at all. The half that does can’t agree on what counts as e-waste or who should pay to recycle it.
Recycling was supposed to work by now. Here’s why it still doesn’t – Quartz
Most recyclable material never leaves the house. What does get collected faces contamination, weak markets, and a collapsed export system.
Better recycling AI tech may delay real waste reduction – Quartz
In 2023, Michaela Barnet asked study participants to rank the words “reduce,” “reuse,” and “recycle” in order of environmental impact.
Suffolk ending curbside recycling next month, switching to AI waste-sorting system – WTKR
Suffolk ends curbside recycling July 1, switching to AI-powered sorting to recover recyclables from household trash.
Electronics recycling company Sunnking moves operations to Bloomfield – Spectrum News
A local electronics recycling company is moving to Ontario County. Sunnking Sustainable Solutions announced it is relocating operations from …
A lot of ‘recycled‘ plastic is being burned overseas – and causing widespread pollution …
It’s easy to think of recycling as the solution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse. A large amount of plastic …