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UK makes multimillion-dollar global marine plastic pledge
The newly formed Commonwealth Clean Oceans Alliance is intended to drive infrastructure and research investment on a mass scale.
By Cole Rosengren • April 16, 2018 -
UPDATE: Greenbuild reports 'zero waste' diversion for annual conference
Working with Boston-based Save That Stuff and other partners, the organizers hit a new record.
By Cole Rosengren • April 16, 2018 -
The Recycling Partnership expects to hit $33M investment target in 2018
The national nonprofit's annual report shows continual progress and an expanding reach, as new high-profile corporate backers sign on.
By Cole Rosengren • April 13, 2018 -
How Sacramento County, CA plans to fix recycling without raising rates
The county is rolling out a pilot this week after months of contract transitions, due in part to persistently high contamination rates.
By Cole Rosengren • April 12, 2018 -
SWANA, ISRI to host 'MRF Summit' in August
"This is expected to host the most spirited debates that have ever occurred in this industry," ISRI President Robin Wiener said.
By Cody Boteler • April 11, 2018 -
Rhode Island may repeal ban on using glass as landfill cover
The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation is seeking relief after the closure of a key Massachusetts bottling plant.
By Cole Rosengren • April 9, 2018 -
Fiberight CEO suggests delayed facility in Maine will open by December
"It will work," CEO Craig Stuart-Paul said at a town hall meeting this week. "We will prove it to you."
By Cole Rosengren • Updated May 10, 2018 -
As US-China trade tensions flare, plastics, aluminum caught in the crossfire
Recent trade spats aren't making it any more likely that the U.S. and China will come to a new agreement on contamination standards.
By Cody Boteler • April 6, 2018 -
Pratt Recycling president talks future of markets at NERC workshop
Myles Cohen said the contamination problems behind China's new policies are a self-inflected wound. "We as an industry need to fix this," he said. "We did this to ourselves."
By Cody Boteler • April 4, 2018 -
NYC characterization study shows waste reduction, long road to 'zero'
The Department of Sanitation's 2017 waste characterization study — its first since 2013 — offers a wealth of data on organics, e-waste and cardboard.
By Cole Rosengren • April 4, 2018 -
Deep Dive
With China's 'nearly impossible' contamination standard, where are MRFs looking now?
As the 0.5% enforcement date approached in March, we took a look at how MRFs were adapting in multiple states.
By Katie Pyzyk • April 4, 2018 -
UPDATE: China seizes 110,000 metric tons of 'smuggled waste,' arrests 52 so far in 2018
In an ongoing crackdown on smuggled material, China says it has seized hundreds of thousands of tons of illegal waste and "smashed" smuggling rings.
By Cole Rosengren , Cody Boteler • April 3, 2018 -
Deep Dive
Washington state recycling market issues finally come into focus
A highly-attended Department of Ecology meeting and news from the Seattle area show effects are worse than originally thought.
By Cole Rosengren • April 3, 2018 -
RePower opening Montgomery mixed waste MRF in December
The South Carolina company now plans to install equipment next month, with plans for full operations to kick in by Jan. 2019.
By Cole Rosengren • Updated Nov. 2, 2018 -
UPDATE: China says US complaints are 'unjustifiable, illegitimate'
"We hope that the U.S. side could focus on reducing, disposing and treating the hazardous wastes and other wastes it generated ... fulfill its due responsibilities and obligations for the world," a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said.
By Cody Boteler • March 28, 2018 -
Closed Loop Fund unveils $5M partnership with Connecticut
The arrangement, which is the first of its kind, is intended to help spread the reach of no-interest loans for recycling infrastructure in a key Northeast state.
By Cole Rosengren • March 27, 2018 -
Infrastructure, trade and taxes: ISRI lays out policy agenda for the year
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries lists more than two dozen agenda items divided between six categories, including supporting the right to repair, developing free trade agreements and opposing EPR.
By Cody Boteler • March 27, 2018 -
MassRecycle 2018: Municipalities should brace for more expensive recycling
Speakers offered a range of insight on adapting to market conditions, from municipal contracting to World Trade Organization politics, at the state's biggest industry event.
By Cole Rosengren • March 27, 2018 -
UPDATE: Gainesville, FL passes 'zero waste' policy
The Florida city has a broad plan to hit a 75% recycling rate by 2020. This latest move includes taking steps to consider bans on single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam containers.
By Cole Rosengren • March 26, 2018 -
University of California professor develops lithium-ion battery recycling method
The recycling method apparently works without losing any capacity and at various stages of degradation.
By Cody Boteler • March 26, 2018 -
Tonnage up, diversion flat in St. Paul, MN under Eureka Recycling program
St. Paul saw its total tonnage of collected recyclables increase by 13% between 2016 and 2017, though its diversion rate is still below a city goal.
By Cody Boteler • March 26, 2018 -
Nashville, TN looking for ways to fund bi-weekly recycling collection by 2020
Recycling service is only offered monthly right now, but local officials think they could change that with state and nonprofit grants.
By Cole Rosengren • March 23, 2018 -
Hawaii lawmakers back down from bottle deposit increase
State senators were considering a bill that would double the bottle deposit. After negative public testimony, that provision was removed from the legislation.
By Cody Boteler • March 22, 2018 -
UPDATE: Houston City Council approves one-year recycling extension with Waste Management
The current deal was set to expire this week, but will now run through March 2019.
By Cole Rosengren • March 22, 2018 -
Opinion
EPR: The good, the bad and the ugly
Neil Seldman, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, argues that extended producer responsibility will continue in the U.S., but that it may be more to the benefit of manufacturers than recycling.
By Neil Seldman • March 22, 2018