WM is adding polypropylene cups and plastic-coated paper cups to its list of accepted items for curbside recycling.

Improved technology isn’t the only factor driving progress. Over the past decade, carton recycling access in the U.S. has ...

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WM says recent automation upgrades and changes to bale specifications helped spur the change, along with market demand for the materials. WM is asking customers to also add the materials to their ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

You may be surprised to learn that some of the things you put in your recycling bins contaminate the whole batch. Here's what ...

Paper recyclers and mills have a solid quality yardstick in the EN 643 document, and a new measuring device could help mills enforce that quality. In a presentation at the European Paper Recycling ...

Experts gathered at the Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference in Chicago in October to discuss OCC and mixed paper market ...

“With the recent expansion and some new equipment at Pope/Douglas,” he says, “in addition to sorting more recyclables that ...

Starting in January, Philadelphia stores will charge a minimum of 10 cents for each paper bag to encourage the use of reusable bags.