Day two of the Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference, hosted by Recycling Today this week in Chicago, brought attendees together for another round of education and keynote sessions focused on the impact of China’s import ban, improving recycling...

Several Brooklyn, N.Y., startup companies are hoping to help New York City achieve its zero waste goal, which calls for the end of sending waste to landfills by 2030...

The Johnson County, Kan., Department of Health and Environment awarded Burns & McDonnell the contract to assist in developing a solid waste management plan (SWMP) to provide the vision and framework to guide future activities and develop the...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) just released the year-end results of its Recycling Demand Champions effort, which was launched in 2017 to develop new end markets for recycled plastics...

CVS drugstore is known for having seriously long receipts—some receipts could measure out to the length of an adult human or a couch. A recently published Vox article also points out that CVS receipts have their own witty memes on social media...

The Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference, hosted by Recycling Today, is taking place this week in Chicago. The conference features a range of keynote and education sessions that address the biggest challenges and opportunities that currently face...

Packaging solutions company rPlanet Earth has opened a new 302,000-square-foot plastics recovery and production facility, capable of producing 80 million pounds of food and drink packaging annually. Germany-based Krones supplied its bottle-grade...

After 16 years at Waste Management, the company announced that Barry Caldwell, the senior vice president of corporate affairs and chief legal officer, has left...

The J.M. Smucker Company announced it has joined the How2Recycle initiative to educate consumers on how to responsibly recycle packaging. The J.M. Smucker Company will launch its effort in early 2019 with Folgers coffee packaging that will feature...