Thin, flexible plastics — like plastic bags, food wrap and packing material — are among the least likely to get recycled. They get tangled up in the machinery at recycling facilities and can break the ...

Key Points Newspapers work as compost and mulch, enriching soil and blocking weeds.Fold or shred them for seedling cups, pot ...

Irish waste and recycling solutions company Turmec has secured a €6.2m contract in New Zealand. Along with Australian partner ...

Plastic films and plastic packaging such as crisp packets, bread bags and pet food pouches should still be put in the household waste bin. Reuse carrier bags or recycle at supermarkets. Hard plastics ...

Packaging provider Amcor’s AmFiber Performance Paper has been verified as recyclable within Brazil's mixed-paper recycling ...

City of Austin curbside customers can now recycle food and beverage cartons and coated paper products in their blue recycling ...

Austinites, hold onto your milk cartons. An expansion of the city's recycling program makes it possible to include food and ...

Jeevaraj Gopal Pillai highlights how UFlex is fuelling a shift toward a circular economy in packaging through sustainable ...

now accepts polyethylene (PE)-coated paper cups in its mixed paper stock for recycling. It’s the third Georgia-Pacific facility to begin accepting PE-coated cups, joining recycled paper mills in Green ...

though the recycling system overall cost nearly $2.2 million. Not all materials demand the same price – aluminum is stable at the high end of most profitable recyclables, while mixed paper and ...

In cities that use single-stream recycling, consumers put all of their recyclable materials − paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and metal − into a single bin. Once collected, the mixed ...