Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts EPA Funding
Trump’s proposed budget would cut the EPA’s Superfund program, tasked with cleaning up hazardous waste sites, by 10 percent.Continue Reading→
Details on a sweeping US recycling bill
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Key curbside plastics no longer ‘widely’ recyclable
Changes in U.S. recycling programs led the How2Recycle labeling initiative to downgrade recyclability classifications for non-bottle rigid PET containers and certain PP products, potentially impacting recovery of those materials. How2Recycle, a project…Continue Reading→
ISRI to consider residential recyclables specs
Recycling coordinators, MRFs and others tend to refer to material in different ways. Draft specifications from an industry group aim to help put all parties on the same page. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Board of Directors will &#…Continue Reading→
Improving the dialogue
Richard Coupland, vice president of municipal sales at Phoenix-based Republic Services, shares ways the dialogue around recycling can be improved to reduce contamination in municipal recycling programs.Continue Reading→
Sesotec publishes booklet on plastic recycling
German sorting equipment firm’s e-publication can be requested via its website.Continue Reading→
The Surge of Plastics Production
Financial Times looks at this century’s plastic boom amid environmental backlash.Continue Reading→
Infographic: Our Plastic Earth
The extent of plastic pollution has reached a level that … The post Infographic: Our Plastic Earth appeared first on Earth911.com.Continue Reading→
The Aluminum Association names new president/CEO
Tom Dobbins will take the helm March 16.Continue Reading→
A close look at curbside recycling in 2020
The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, completed its ‘2020 State of Curbside Recycling Report.’Continue Reading→