Recycling markets hammer Waste Management
Facing rock-bottom fiber prices, Waste Management's recycling revenues experienced a 16 percent decrease during the first quarter of 2018. The...
Asia
China’s ban hits additional materials
Chinese authorities plan to halt imports of more scrap categories by the end of the year, including post-industrial scrap plastic...
China will expand ban to post-industrial plastic
China plans to prohibit imports of post-industrial scrap plastic by the end of the year, according to documents published by...
Chinese port seizes first illegal e-scrap load of 2018
Customs officers in China’s port city of Xiamen seized a load of end-of-life electronics last month, claiming the material didn't...
Chinese customs figures show falling plastics imports
China has issued its latest round of import permits for scrap materials, and approved volumes remain particularly low on the...
Customs figures quantify falling Chinese imports
China has issued its latest round of import permits for scrap paper and plastics, and approved volumes remain particularly low...
How scrap plastic exports shifted at largest U.S. port district
In the course of one year, Los Angeles-area exporters cut their scrap polyethylene shipments to China by 99 percent, leaving...
Hong Kong cracks down on e-scrap mismanagement
Authorities recently handed down several penalties for improper management of scrap electronics. On March 6 and March 13, a court...
How scrap plastic exports shifted at largest U.S. port district
In the course of one year, Los Angeles-area exporters cut their scrap polyethylene shipments to China by 99 percent, leaving...
China enacts tariffs on U.S. scrap aluminum
Providing less than a day of warning, China began imposing a 25 percent tariff on recovered aluminum shipments from the...
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