Recycling and Processing

INTERNATIONAL: Mandatory Recycling, But at What Cost?

Markus Schroll and Erich Staudt

Germany is one of the leading nations in managing solid waste, especially in recycling packaging waste. However, the country's Packaging Ordinance and...

The BALER 3-STEP

Patricia-Anne Tom

Balers can save a waste processing facility time and money by reducing disposal costs, improving operational efficiency and ultimately extending a landfill's...

Out of the Ashes

Heidi Ridgley

Turmoil in the U.S. recycled plastics market may have smaller companies wondering where they'll be when the price free fall ends. Will they splatter at...

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Recent Popular Articles

Sands from the Hourglass
Across the country, local governments are faced with the challenge of meeting recycling goals, reducing solid waste tonnage and minimizing costs.
Alcoa Increases Aluminum Recycling Goal
Pittsburgh-based Alcoa has announced a goal to increase the national used beverage can (UBC) recycling rate to 75 percent by 2015.
Coca-Cola Wins Award and Sets New Goal
The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) has awarded Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co.