Google explores how to capture 4.5 billion tons of plastic
A report from Google lays out how mechanical and chemical recycling, a virgin plastic production tax, consumer incentives and more can increase plastics recovery over the next two decades. Google in July released an executive summary of the report, titled … Read More…
Analysts tout positive cardboard markets, note post-consumer plastic complexities at ISRI convention | Waste Dive
U.S. cardboard markets will stay positive in the near term, market experts at ISRI’s convention said. Meanwhile, infrastructure issues could impede efforts to collect enough plastic to meet brand owners’ future packaging demands. Source: Analysts tout positive cardboard markets, note post-consumer plastic … Read More…
PureCycle’s Tamsin Ettefagh Facilitates Plastics Industry Dialogue about Polypropylene Recycling Solutions
Ultra-pure recycled polypropylene manufacturer CSO drives narrative … Read More…
India expands capacity to consume recovered paper
India’s Sri Andal Paper Mills plans to start a containerboard line by the second half of this year. … Read More…
Growing battery processor plans next US facility
Lithium-ion battery recycling company Li-Cycle will build its third North American plant in the Phoenix area. The operation will be able to process up to 22 million pounds of batteries per year. The Toronto-headquartered company this month announced its next … Read More…
Glass Packaging Institute releases 10-year goal
GPI’s A Circular Future for Glass initiative aims to raise the U.S. glass recycling rate to 50 percent. … Read More…
Second Food Scraps-to-RNG Project Certified Under California LCFS GREET 3.0 | BioCycle
Before January 2021, no food scraps-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) pathways had been certified by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) under CA-GREET 3.0 —the life cycle analysis model that has been used by the agency since 2019 to certify Low … Read More…
California provides funding to boost thermoform recycling
PET reclaimers have been awarded millions of dollars from the state of California to help finance recycling projects. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) on April 19 approved a $3 million grant to Green Impact Manufacturing and … Read More…
Data Corner: The importance of decoupling recycled and virgin plastic prices
Historically, recycled plastic resin and bale prices have closely tracked virgin resin pricing. High virgin resin prices create good times for plastic reclaimers. Conversely the remarkably low virgin resin prices experienced across most plastic types in the last few years … Read More…
Asking what should count as recycling, EPA gets an earful
If food scraps from households are composted, should that count in the nation’s recycling rate? What if they’re fed to livestock or processed in anaerobic digesters? Those are just a couple of the many questions the EPA is grappling with … Read More…