While delays and court setbacks have provided a temporary and tenuous reprieve from President Donald Trump's market-disrupting tariffs, the European recycling sector continues to struggle with a rash of bankruptcies, most filed months before the trade war even began.

As part of a broader initiative to increase efficiency, the U.S. secretary of defense has called for the Army to include the right to repair products in its procurement contracts, adding support to previous congressional efforts. 

The city of Omaha recently added paper take-out cups to its list of accepted items for recycling, with locally owned First Star Recycling leading the way in the resident-driven effort. 

As part of a broader initiative to increase efficiency, the U.S. secretary of defense has called for the Army to include the right to repair products in its procurement contracts, adding support to previous congressional efforts. 

A bipartisan bill in Texas to introduce a bottle deposit return system ran out of time for a state House vote, but supporters see cause for optimism after a strong showing during the recently concluded biennial legislative session. 

Post-consumer plastics bales are defying typical springtime trends, with average pricing in May reported flat-to-softer on the month as the peak summer season nears.

A bipartisan bill in Texas to introduce a bottle deposit return system ran out of time for a state House vote, but supporters see cause for optimism after a strong showing during the recently concluded biennial legislative session. 

This article appeared in the May 2025 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. After many weeks of shifting narratives and uncertainty, participants in recycled commodity markets are working to navigate a new tariff environment, in which buyers and sellers as well as customs officials struggle to align federal mandates with on-the-ground implementation. On April 2, President...

Although the emphasis on device repairability has risen in recent years, many devices are discarded because of a circuit board failure when they are quite fixable, said Kyle Wiens, CEO of repair firm iFixit.

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.