This article appeared in the March 2023 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The last several years have been a real roller coaster ride in the news for recycling, with the industry being called all manner of pejoratives, up to and including “dead.” While not dead, recycling could reasonably be called “stuck.” Stuck...

This article originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of Resource Recycling magazine. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Chances are, you’ve heard of the concept of a “life hack.” The term, made popular online over the last decade, describes simple strategies and techniques that a person can use to manage time and daily activities in a...

For a long time, the story of recycling has been purported to be simple - you just have to do X and it’ll all work out. X, of course, changes over the years. If you just put some bins in the town square … If you just installed a few optical sortation devices at some MRFs … If you just...

This story originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Early last year, a study published in the journal Science estimated that between 5.3 million and 14 million tons of plastic generated by coastal populations worldwide became marine debris in 2010. At the end of September 2015, a report...

This story originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. As our readers know, the recycling industry has long been a global concern – markets for collected recyclable materials are shaped not just by the reclaimer or mill down the highway but, rather, by forces across the Pacific Ocean. International...

This story originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Recycling had a bit of a public relations problem in 2015 – for a stretch there it seemed as though a month didn’t go by without someone taking a swipe at the industry. With commodities markets struggling, the time was...