Recycling

Financial Times looks at this century’s plastic boom amid environmental backlash.

The rise of e-commerce has helped sustain the pulp and paper industry, which has been impacted by the contraction of print newspapers and “paperless” trends.

The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act aims to combat plastic pollution via source reduction and extended producer responsibility.

Lawmakers held off voting on the bill, which seeks to force large generators of food waste to recycle or compost the material.

The facility will provide thermal treatment for 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste per year and generate up to 42 megawatts of low carbon electricity.

Under the new law, export of plastics that are newly covered under the Basel Convention can be done only when receiving countries give prior informed consent.

The state approved a hazardous waste renewal and expansion for U.S. Ecology’s Detroit North plant.

The decrease, driven by repercussions from China’s National Sword policy, is the largest decline in U.S. export shipments.

Waste Debt Prevention’s platform aims to help the waste management industry curtail bad debt generated by customers.

Under the agreement, Dow will combine its virgin polyethylene resins with Avangard Innovative’s pellets made from post-consumer resin plastic film.