Amid sweeping federal staffing cuts, the future of a government program to assess processes to make food packaging from recycled plastics is unclear, sources told Plastics Recycling Update in recent interviews. Continue Reading→
Google X and Dow Chemical are collaborating to develop an artificial intelligence sorting system capable of identifying film plastics and mixed materials, they announced at a conference in April.Continue Reading→
Industry professionals at this year’s conference called for coordinated battery fire prevention strategies, including integrating newer tech like x-ray sorters, to fight growing battery waste streams such as vapes.
A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here’s how it works.
Source: The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic | Grist
Packaging and recycling sectors connect in Seattle
A common complaint among MRF operators is that they have little meaningful contact with the packaging industry, despite dealing with headaches from that industry’s products every single day.
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CalRecycle to fund mixed plastics facility, other projects
California’s state recycling agency will provide $10 million toward a facility sorting plastics with resin codes 2-7, additional multimillion dollar grants for several major MRF retrofits, and a handful of smaller awards for localities to install recycling collection containers.
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Source: Recycle From Home adds another California city – Recycling Today
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Source: Greif to close Los Angeles paperboard mill – Recycling Today
Recent laws that target packaging materials make the new paper-fiber product an eco-friendly solution for shipping refrigerated products.
Source: ‘RecyCoolers’ could help reduce use of environmentally harmful Styrofoam packaging
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CAA proposes tweaks to handle SB 54 delays
CAA proposes tweaks to handle SB 54 delays
The Circular Action Alliance is asking for several changes to extended producer responsibility deadlines in response to the delayed rulemaking on SB 54.
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