CRRC's Media Response to the Recycling Markets Crisis

This Media Kit is designed to:

Educate your cities, counties, LEAs, etc. about the financial impacts of the markets crisis and the likelihood of necessary rate increases
Educate state and local governments on the need to incentivize domestic market/infrastructure development

This Media Kit is available to you and the public so that you can share it with your jurisdictions about the reality of the Recycling Markets crisis. We've been hearing from our members that many cities and counties are unsure about the magnitude of the crisis. This Media Kit will give you the back-up you need, as the resources on the page will continue to be built on a daily basis from all of the press (TV, newspaper, radio, social media) that is being generated.

Our talking points, and yours as well, include:

China National Sword and the impact on markets
The true cost of recycling and the cost per household (what once was a funding stream to offset rates is now a cost)
Education to address contamination to residents (keep recycling items in your recycling cart – but clean up the stream)

Check back here on a regular basis. If you are meeting with press, be sure to send them here as well.

Click link to view video, audio or article.

Please email trish@crrcnorth.org to add media links from all sources.

8/16/18: Waste Advantage - Congressman hosts roundtable in Oregon on recycling market changes

8/16/18: Waste 360 - Thailand announces ban on e-waste, plastic imports

8/15/18: Resource Recycling - China to enact tariffs on scrap and virgin plastics

8/15/18: Waste Advantage - Recycling Rescue: Contamination Intervention Needed to Save Recycling

8/14/18: San Francisco Chronicle Editorial - A trade war with China is harming the recycling market

8/14/18: NBC News Bay Area (video) - Recycling Troubles: Companies Struggle with New Tariffs

8/14/18: San Francisco Chronicle - Garbage companies are refusing your recycling. The trade war with China will make it worse

8/14/18: Paradise Post - NRWS looks to public for recycling help

8/14/18: Vallejo Times-Herald - Recycling costs likely to rise because of Chinese tariffs, local recycling firm says

8/14/18: Napa Register - Struggling recycling companies urge Napa consumers to clean up their acts

8/14/18: Resource Recycling - Low OCC prices continue to benefit U.S. mills

8/14/18: Resource Recycling - The latest pricing for baled paper and plastics

8/10/18: Waste360.com - Global Market Changes Mean Higher Recycling Costs

8/9/18: Waste360.com - Recycling Industry Responds to China Tariffs on Paper, Plastics

8/8/18: Waste Roday - China to impose tariffs on scrap imports from the US

8/8/18: Resource Recycling - China to enact tariffs on OCC and other recycled paper

8/8/18: Plastics Recycling Update - Where are the current plastics recycling markets?

8/6/18: Laguna Beach Indy - Wasting Recyclables

8/6/18: Berg Mill Supply - China Proposes New Import Bans

8/6/18: Waste360.com - Recyclables Dumped in Oregon Landfills Since China Ban

8/5/18: SWEEP - Pacific, West and Northeast are hit hardest by rising recycling costs and disappearing end markets

8/5/18: CBS News - Piling up: Drowning in a sea of plastic

8/4/18: Santa Cruz Sentinel - Chinese policy leaves Santa Cruz County recycling centers adrift

8/3/18: Stanford News - Stanford remains committed to zero-waste goal despite shakeup in the global recycling industry

8/3/18: Waste360.com - Vietnam, Malaysia set waste import restrictions

8/1/18: Plastics Recycling Update - EPA: U.S. plastics recycling rate declines

8/1/18: Plastics Recycling Update - Basel amendment could further slow U.S. plastic exports

7/31/18: Resource Recycling - Container backlogs cause more important strife in SE Asia

7/31/18: Resource Recycling - Publicly traded haulers report commodity price pains

7/31/18: Resource Recycling - Containerboard mill conversion will incorporate mixed paper (in Virginia)

7/31/18: Bakersfield.com - Bakersfield prepares to change recycling program in response to market downturn

7/30/18: Santa Maria Times - Our View: Big change in the way we dispose

7/27/18: Waste Advantage Magazine - Vermont's Recycling Costs Rise

7/26/18: Waste360.com - Fiberight Launches Integrated Waste Conversion Plant

7/26/18: ISRI - Markets in Southeast Asia forced to temporarily close borders because of trade diversion from China

7/26/18: Waste360.com - The current state of recovered paper markets

7/25/18: Plastics Recycling Update - China moves to extend bank to all recovered materials

7/25/18: Plastics Recycling Update - Phoenix eyes local outlet for mixed plastics

7/24/18: Stuff You Should Know Podcast (Audio) - Recycling Update: How's It Going?

7/24/18: Tap Into North Salem - North Salem garbage contract concerns

7/20/18: YourCentralValley.com - Investigation: U.S. versus China trade war hurting recycling industry

7/20/18: Waste360.com - China Ban Could Force Americans to Clean Up

7/19/18: SWANA: One Year of Change - SWANA Toolkit

7/19/18: Mountain View Voice - Clean Your Recycling

7/18/18: Waste Advantage Magazine - International Plastic Recycling Groups Announce Global Definition of "Plastics Recyclability"

7/18/18: Resource Recycling - China moves to extend ban to all materials

7/18/18: Waste360.com - Vietnam "Scrambling" Since China's Ban on Scrap Imports

7/17/18: Waste 360.com - China's Changing Import Regulations — What Does It All Mean?

7/16/18: Berg Mill Supply - California's Passion for Recycling No Longer Making an Impact

7/16/18: Recycling Today - China's scrap receipts slashed in half so far in 2018

7/13/18: KRON (Video) - Some Californians paying more to recycle after new China policy

7/12/18: Wastedive - Sacramento, California drops mixed plastics from curbside program

7/12/18: Bakersfield.com - Bakersfield recycling in trouble months after China stops taking world's trash

7/12/18: Chico News & Review - Trash Trouble: New costs, restrictions hampers haulers' recycling

7/12/18: Waste360.com - Penn Waste Announces New Recycling Guidelines for Customers in Pennsylvania

7/11/18: KCRA 3 (Video) - Here's how China is changing what you recycle at home

7/10/18: Recycling Today - The perplexing pace of policy changes

7/10/18: Sacramento Bee (Video) - Do you take recycling seriously? Here's how Sacramento's waste rules are changing

7/18/18: Waste360.com - China: One Year On

7/9/18: Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery - Launches Recycle CLEAN America website (The "Get Educated" webpage mentions the China ban and includes educational videos)

7/9/18: Waste360.com - Monterey, Calif., to Stop Recycling Plastic Bags

7/9/18: Los Angeles Times - Environmentally minded Californians love to recycle - but it's no longer doing any good

7/7/18: Marin Independent Journal - Corte Madera approves increase in garbage rates

7/6/18: Waste360.com - Time to Recycle Smarter

7/6/18: Manteca/Ripon Bulletin - Higher Garbage Rates? China's move could raise Manteca solid waste bills

7/4/18: MSN News - U.S. cities scramble to rewrite rules on recycling after China restricts "foreign garbage"

7/4/18: Action News Now Chico (Video) - New Recycling Guidelines Could Mean Higher Costs

7/2/18: Berg Mill Supply - China's Neighbors Struggle with Plastic Ban

7/2/18: Charlotte Observer (Video) - Charlotte's recycling "is broken". Could your plastic, paper be headed for a landfill?

7/1/18: St. Helena Star - No more plastic bags in recycle bins, says Napa County's Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling

6/29/18: Pacific Coast Business Times - Our view: Tougher trash standards a different kind of trade war

6/29/18: Pacific Coast Business Times - Trash Crash