“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 …

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 …

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.

Residents who fail to follow Marion County’s strict new recycling rules could be slapped with a fine of as much as $15.45 per pickup. “We’re going to monitor everybody a lot more closely,” said Art Kuenzi, manager of Suburban Garbage Service, speaking on behalf of the Mid-Valley Garbage & Recycling …

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.

After years of discussion, Carbondale’s Board of Trustees seem poised to get directly involved in municipal waste diversion with the goal of increasing …

Like a great frog and environmentalist once said, “It ain’t easy being green.” Especially if you lie to taxpayers about it. Under Mayor Ashton Hayward’s watch, the city of Pensacola has been lying to citizens by encouraging them to recycle, billing them for recycling collection services, and then dumping the …

WSLM reports, the project is headed by Eugene and Denise Hsiao, who own Shaw Brothers Co., Inc., a recycling company in New Albany that serves …

Detectives began sifting through mounds of waste in a Brooklyn recycling plant Wednesday in search of the body of a baby they believe a woman …

Environmental officials have stopped further work from being carried out at a Flintshire recycling plant following a big fire. Firefighters spent two days last week tackling a plastics blaze at Factory Road, Sandycroft. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said the decision was taken after “officers found that the …