Big user of recovered PE boasts record earnings

“Also, we’re investing in R&D programs to develop processes that will allow us to use a greater variety of scrap material, including lower cost and harder-to-recycle sources.” Lower PE feedstock costs have come both from a slightly weakening market for the material and from the company’s efforts to use …

‘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 …

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.

Niles To Roll Out Free Textile Recycling Program

Village trustees signed a contract with Great Lakes Recycling, which runs Simple Recycling, at their April 24 board meeting. The contract is expected to earn the village $900 in direct revenue and save Niles taxpayers nearly $28,000 by diverting nearly 600 tons of trash from landfills each year.