Last year China, previously the centre of the global recycling trade, abruptly imposed restrictions on imports of recyclable items. Could such a move …
How Kansas City Recycling Companies Are Adapting To A Chinese Plastic Waste Import Ban
Despite reports that some waste companies in the U.S. are burning recycled paper and plastic or sending it to landfills, processors in the metro are still …
New MIT Robot Sorts Recycling By Giving It a Squeeze
The US produces some 68 million tons of recycling every year (a number that should, frankly, be much higher). That’s a lot of paper, plastic, metal, and …
Unilever accelerates recycling action plan
Fifty percent of the plastic used in Unilever North America packaging will come from post-consumer recycled content by the end of the year.
Major changes could be coming to how you recycle
LEWISTON, N.Y. — The way you recycle could be changing drastically. “This is truly a paradigm shift in recycling as we know it,” Dawn Timm, Niagara …
The Trash Crash
Every time you recycle a Coke bottle or throw a banana peel away, you’re entering a market of buyers, sellers, and fierce competition. Today on the …
You have lots of questions about recycling. We have answers
We’ve gotten dozens of SoundQ’s questions about one topic: recycling. So we’re re-running this archive episode with loads of answers, including how …
Barnabi: Abandoning recycling will cost us in the long run
And as if eliminating local recycling of glass and plastic were not enough, recycling facilities at Gypsy Hill Park are completely closed also now.
Recycling Robot Learns Through System of Touch
Every year, trash companies sift through an estimated 68 million tons of recycling, which is the weight equivalent of more than 30 million cars.
Textiles and Apparel Recycling campaign seeks to improve textile sustainability on campus
The Textiles and Apparel Recycling campaign began last semester to research textile recycling and eventually establish an on-campus recycling …