The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has published the first semiannual APR Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability. Now in its 31st year, the APR Design Guide helps brands develop packaging that is readily recyclable. In December 2025, APR announced that it was switching from immediately releasing updates to the guide to doing so twice a year, on March 30 and...

The state is the latest to launch a stewardship program with PaintCare.

The City of The Dalles in northern Oregon is now rolling out nearly 5,000 new 90-gallon recycling carts to customers thanks to funding from the state’s EPR program.

The Plastics Recycling Conference’s facility tour went to San Diego-based CP Group, a leading supplier of equipment for MRFs.

With grant assistance, the Rhode Island capital is providing about 55,000 new collection carts to help boost its recycling rate, among the state's lowest.

There’s perhaps no better week to start as the Managing Editor of Resource Recycling than the one that includes Global Recycling Day.

Environmental NGOs and plastics recycling industry stakeholders identified common ground solutions to move the needle on recycling and reuse, during a panel at the 2026 Plastics Recycling Conference.

A workshop at the Textile Recycling Summit in San Diego explored how much automation could be deployed in sorting and grading used clothes.

Several members of Circular Action Alliance team shared insights during a workshop at the 2026 Resource Recycling Conference in San Diego this week.