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After months of sending recyclables to landfill, Washington County has signed a new recycling contract with Republic Services in Las Vegas.

J. P. Mascaro & Sons announced the Borough of Pottstown will be the first community in the U.S. to handle and process flexible plastic packaging.

The measure aims to decrease the number of contaminants from being placed in recycling bins that compromise the quality of materials.

Four robotic sorting machines at the facility identify different plastics, remove them from conveyor belts of mixed materials and deposit them for further sorting.

A new report outlines several options that can be implemented to counter the impacts of China’s National Sword policy.

In this month’s edition of Business Insights, we discuss highlights from several sessions of the Resource Recycling Conference and Trade Show.

In August one of the industry’s professionals paid the ultimate sacrifice after he was injured in a facility fire.

NWRA is instead calling on Congress to incentivize investment in domestic recycling to strengthen markets.

The new facility will mark the end of Mid America Recycling's more than 25-year tenure as the area's recycling processor.

The ReSource Center project aims to reduce the area’s carbon footprint by reclaiming items headed to landfill that can be recycled or composted.