Will Flower

Each day across the United States about 1,500 shipping containers are packed full of recyclables and trucked to seaports, where they are loaded onto cargo ships and dispatched to China. The recyclables in those...

Waste and recycling is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States. Our activities and facilities are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation, the...

Go to any transfer station, incinerator or landfill, and you will see ample amounts of cardboard, newspaper, office paper, plastics and metal that could be recovered for recycling. Despite the industry’s best efforts...

Let’s be honest. The state of recycling in North America is poor. Commodity prices are down. Expenses are up. It takes a huge capital investment to build new recycling centers. And a lot of people don’t recycle...

The Glass Packaging Institute touts glass as “the trusted and proven packaging for health, taste and the environment.” The benefits associated with glass packaging are many… glass containers are nonporous and...

Operators of recycling centers are on a neverending quest to become more efficient and effective in segregating materials that flow through their facilities. The technology for processing and sorting recyclables...

After all of the recyclables have been sorted, processed and baled, it’s time to sell those bales. But the process for marketing, selling and moving bales is complicated...

Every day recycling facilities depend on partnerships with customers, employees and buyers/brokers to obtain, process and sell recyclables. But there is another critical partner that should not be overlooked when...