ECUA, City Of Pensacola Talk Recycling Deal

Almost two months after its vendor contract expired, the City of Pensacola is working on a new deal for the handling of its recyclables. Tarpon Paper of Loxley, Alabama stopped accepting loads from Pensacola last September, and the contract expired in March. While residents continued to sort their …

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.