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2/11/20: Resource Recycling - Chinese paper import permits trend lower
2/6/20: Resource Recycling - Paper and plastic export numbers take historic dive
2/4/20: Resource Recycling - DS Smith expands North American recycled fiber capacity
1/30/20: The Boston Globe - Expanding state bottle law could help curb recycling crisis
1/30/20: WKSU (audio) - Cleveland Foresees Drastic Reduction As It Rightsizes Its Recycling Program
1/30/20: Standard Examiner - North Ogden again debating the future of its recycling program as costs jump
1/29/20: Plastics Recycling Update - US and Canada to add major processing capacity
1/28/20: Cape May County Herald - Should County's Recycling Program Continue?
1/28/20: Resource Recycling - Recycling firm will shutter facilities due to paper market
1/28/20: Resource Recycling - China’s overall paper imports dropped another 39% last year
1/28/20: Resource Recycling - Experts react to China’s updated metals specs
1/27/20: WFSU News - Future Of Recycling Uncertain For Some Florida Communities
1/27/20: Los Angeles Times - Editorial: China is putting the U.S. to shame in the fight against plastic trash
1/21/20: Waste360.com - Malaysia Returns 150 Containers of Plastic Waste
1/20/20: PBS News Hour (video) - Malaysia returns trash, says it won't be the world's waste bin
1/15/20: The New York Times - One Thing We Can Do: Fix Recycling
1/15/20: Waste Dive - India to enforce 1% contamination rate on paper imports, conduct random inspections
1/14/20: Resource Recycling - Details on India’s mixed paper import crackdown
1/14/20: Resource Recycling - Pratt to build more US recycled fiber mills
1/14/20: Resource Recycling - Verso mill deepens move into recycled packaging business
1/14/20: Resource Recycling - Another potential export disruption on the horizon
1/14/20: Resource Recycling - Recycled paper prices stay low
1/11/20: Boston Globe - Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do
1/9/20: Waste360.com - NWRA Publishes Update on Recyclables Market
1/8/20: Pensacola News Journal (video) - Furniture, alligator parts, dirty cans: How contaminants could doom Santa Rosa County's recycling efforts
1/8/20: Plastics Recycling Update - Another potential export disruption on the horizon
1/7/20: Resource Recycling - China continues to decrease permits for imported paper
1/3/20: Pensacola News Journal - Santa Rosa County throws 'Hail Mary' to save recycling program, which should begin by end of January
1/2/20: Waste360.com - Documentary Highlights Global Plastic Waste Crisis
12/20/19: Waste360.com - Tiny Plastics Largely Contribute to Asia's Waste Crisis
12/19/19: Waste Dive - How many curbside recycling programs have actually been cut?
12/19/19: Bowling Green Daily News - Future of Warren County's curbside recycling in doubt
12/18/19: North Bay Business Journal - Recycling industry woes linger for North Bay haulers, processors
12/18/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Import policies choke the flow of recycled plastic from US
12/14/19: Northwestern Medill Report - Chicago area recycling industry struggles after China bans waste imports
12/12/19: The Roanoke Times - Recycling continues to struggle in Roanoke and statewide
12/11/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Federal lawmakers launch plastics recycling task force
12/10/19: Resource Recycling - Virgin plastic giant acquires US PET reclaimer
12/9/19: NY Times (video) - The Great Recycling Con
12/6/19: Resource Recycling - These projects are boosting domestic capacity for recycled paper
12/6/19: CNBC (video) - Republic Services CEO on the cardboard crisis the US is facing
12/5/19: Waste360.com - China Likely to Ban All Recycled Fiber Imports
12/3/19: Resource Recycling - Signals point to all-out recycled fiber ban in China
12/3/19: Resource Recycling - Companies plan to invest $300M in domestic paper recycling
12/3/19: Resource Recycling - NERC reports drop in value of recovered materials
12/2/19: Resource Recycling - Data Corner: The recycling revenue slide for nation’s largest processor
12/2/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Reclaimer In Focus: A1 Polymer Recycling
12/2/19: WBNS 10 (video) - Cardboard waste is filling up central Ohio landfills
11/30/19: The Salt Lake Tribune - Two Salt Lake County cities are no longer accepting paper-based products in recycling bins
11/27/19: New Security Beat - What China's Ban on Plastic Scrap Means for Global Recycling
11/26/19: ClickOrlando.com - Here's why recyclables in Orange County are going to the dump
11/26/19: Waste360.com - Mayasia Sends Back Illegal Plastic Waste to U.K.
11/26/19: Waste360.com - Indonesia Finalizes Scrap Import Regulations
11/22/19: NJ Spotlight - Planned Recycling Panel Would Seek to Revive Depressed Markets for Materials
11/20/19: ClickOrlando.com - ‘Almost 100%’ of all recyclables in Ocoee are going to landfill
11/20/19: Las Vegas Review-Journal - Stricter Chinese recycling import rules increase Las Vegas trash fees
11/20/19: Resource Recycling - Mixed rigids and film recycling sites to open next year
11/19/19: Hoover Sun - Recycling conundrum: Santek took recyclables to landfill amid rising costs, contamination
11/19/19: Waste Dive - EPA Recycling Summit emphasizes need for urgent action, shies away from regulatory changes
11/18/19: East Valley Tribune - Mesa further tightening recycle program
11/16/19: East Oregonian - Bad market continues to send some recyclables to the landfill
11/13/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Recycled plastic end markets expand
11/13/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Mixed rigids and film recycling sites to open next year
11/12/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastics collectors continue to feel market pain
11/12/19: Resource Recycling - Exports decline, but domestic markets see stability
11/12/19: Resource Recycling - Recycled HDPE prices continue to escalate
11/11/19: Waste360.com - New Podcast Series Explores China’s Recycling Revolution
11/11/19: Waste Dive - New Hampshire legislators call for major changes to meet modern 'realities' of waste and recycling
11/6/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Exports tumble and ‘ungodly demand’ boosts HDPE prices
11/5/19: Resource Recycling - Washington state mill to add OCC line next year
11/5/19: Resource Recycling - Third-quarter recycling numbers sting more haulers
11/5/19: Resource Recycling - Aluminum recycling giant to spend $36M on upgrade
11/5/19: St. Louis Public Radio (audio) - From Garbage to Energy. New Trash Recycling Plant In the Works in North St. Louis
11/4/19: Berg Mill Supply - The Recycling Industry Cannot Waste Its Opportunity
11/1/19: The Guardian - Argentina could become 'sacrificial country' for plastic waste, say activists
11/1/19: Waste360.com - China Approves Baltic Control to Inspect Scrap Imports from U.S.
11/1/19: Waste360.com - Indonesia to Report Countries Refusing to Accept Returned Waste
10/31/19: Waste360.com - E-plastics Continue to Move Through Asian Markets
10/31/19: KFGO - Indonesia threatens to report countries for refusing to take back waste
10/30/19: Waste Dive - Where to grow: Asian and Latin American countries may increase recyclable import capacity
10/30/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Upcoming CarbonLite operation is company’s largest yet
10/29/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Asian markets for e-plastics evolve amid uncertainty
10/29/19: Waste Dive - Faced with market turmoil, public sector leaders seek new approaches for waste and recycling
10/28/19: GAIA - A Global Waste Shell Game: “Returned” Illegal Waste Shipments from U.S., Diverted from Indonesia to other Asian Countries
10/28/19: Resource Recycling - China adds inspection option for US fiber exporters
10/28/19: The Virginian-Pilot - Chesapeake recycles 14,500 tons of trash. Now the city is “seriously considering” whether to stop recycling.
10/28/19: Berg Mill Supply - Single-Stream vs. Dual-Stream Recycling and Rising Purity Standards Abroad
10/28/19: Resource Recycling - Groups say rejected shipments moved to other countries
10/28/19: Resource Recycling - WM not expecting uptick on paper pricing any time soon
10/25/19: BBC Outlook (audio) - Indiana Recycling Industry Seeking Investment, Development Amid Changing Landscape
10/22/19: Resource Recycling - Company expands corrugated packaging capacity
10/21/19: Waste360.com - Malaysia Works to Return Hundreds of Containers of Scrap Plastics
10/18/19: Asian Sentinel - Southeast Asia Discovers it Can’t Say No to All Waste Imports
10/18/19: Inhabitat - Recycled plastic to soon pave Los Angeles roads
10/17/19: The Seattle Times - Seattle, King County to stop taking plastic bags in recycling
10/17/19: Waste360.com - Recycled HDPE Prices Climb, While PET, PP Prices Fall
10/17/19: Reuters - Malaysia working to clear hundreds of plastic waste shipments at ports: officials
10/17/19: Waste Dive - Waste Management and Casella confirm plastic export policies
10/15/19: Resource Recycling - Recycled HDPE prices soar, but PET and metals see declines
10/15/19: Resource Recycling - Israeli business says it wants the material MRFs reject
10/11/19: Waste360.com - Developer Details $315M New York Paper Mill Project
10/11/19: Waste Dive - California legislature wraps session with unprecedented recycling action
10/10/19: Waste360.com - China Continues to Accept OCC, But in Lower Volumes
10/9/19: Plastics Recycling Update - APR fall meeting: RPET demand will outpace supply
10/9/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Verdex unveils recycled plastic nanofiber technology
10/8/19: Resource Recycling - Fiber continues to flow to China … for now
10/8/19: Resource Recycling - Details on $315 million NY mill project
10/7/19: Berg Mill Supply - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lending a Helping Hand in the Recycling Industry
10/6/19: Bloomberg - Japan’s Abe Says Plastics Not the ‘Enemy’ as Trash Piles Up
10/3/19: Waste360.com - Chemical Recycling Opens Markets for Contaminated Plastics
10/3/19: Waste Dive - Department of Energy awards $73M for biofuel and waste projects
10/2/19: The Cape Cod Chronicle - Trash Crisis Is Driving Cost Increases, Selectmen Told
9/30/19: Huffpost - How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Killing Plastic Recycling
9/29/19: Waste Today Magazine - The state of the waste industry
9/2019: The Potrero View - San Francisco to Take Its Time Getting to Zero Waste
9/26/19: Waste360.com - A New Paper Mill in Ohio
9/20/19: Waste Dive - California legislature wraps session with unprecedented recycling action
9/19/19: The Olympian - With cost of recycling on the rise, Olympia plans to stop curbside collection of glass
9/19/19: Waste360.com - Indonesia to Send Back 547 Containers of Contaminated Materials
9/19/19: Plastics News - California's stalled plastics plan will come back. Here's what it could mean.
9/18/19: Waste Dive - What's the next recycling boom market? ISRI roundtable weighs in
9/18/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Post-consumer plastics prices see notable changes
9/17/19: CityLimits.org - Other Cities Face Trash Crises, but NYC is Navigating China’s Recycling Import Ban
9/17/19: Resource Recycling - Recovered natural HDPE price rises while PET drops
9/17/19: Resource Recycling - Trump to visit new recycled paper mill
9/16/19: Waste Dive - California packaging EPR bill stalls, recycled content mandate passes
9/12/19: NPR (audio) - Where Does Our Recycling Go?
9/12/19: Quarts - California could become the first state to ban single-use plastics
9/11/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Revolve Recycling closes and lays off employees
9/11/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Avangard to build three $30 million film facilities next year
9/11/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Canadian plastics recycling decreased in 2017
9/11/19: SWANA - New ARF Report Examines the Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on Curbside Recycling Programs
9/11/19: Waste Dive - California governor signs law encouraging dual-stream recycling
9/10/19: Resource Recycling - Q&A: Linking supply and demand
9/10/19: Resource Recycling - Experts talk recycled paper realities and forecasts
9/9/19: Resource Recycling - Here is away
9/9/19: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco is surviving the global recycling crisis. But it’s not easy
9/9/19: Berg Mill Supply Co. - Getting Federal About the Recycling Crisis
9/8/19: The Wall Street Journal - States Look for New Ways to Recycle Your Plastic and Paper
9/4/19: Resource Recycling - The details on a $1.8M MRF upgrade in Midwest
9/4/19: Resource Recycling - Norpac plans recovered paper end market expansion
9/4/19: Waste Dive - The Recycling Partnership launches tool to simplify recycling for consumers
9/3/19: KMVT11 News - 'Act Now': Twin Falls launches new recycling program
9/1/19: Peninsula Daily News - Paper mill prepares to reopen by end of year in Port Angeles
8/30/19: Mother Jones - One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown
8/30/19: NRC Recycles - ISRI: China targets scrap commodities in latest tariff announcement
8/30/19: KCRG - Metro Waste to build $24M Des Moines area recycling center
8/29/19: Waste360.com - Scrap Metals Market Drives Overseas and Domestic Changes
8/27/19: Resource Recycling - These projects are boosting domestic capacity for recycled paper
8/27/19: Waste Dive - China announces additional tariffs on US scrap commodities, including aluminum and OCC
8/27/19: Resource Recycling - China to increase tariffs on US OCC and other materials
8/27/19: Resource Recycling - NERC survey offers insight into today’s MRF economics
8/27/19: Resource Recycling - Indorama will invest to met increased RPET demand
8/27/19: MagicValley.com - Changes to the city's recycling program could reduce contamination, cost
8/26/19: Waste360.com - ISRI Notifies Members of China’s Latest Tariff Announcement
8/26/19: KRWG Public Media (audio) - Creating A National Recycling Strategy
8/26/19: Berg Mill Supply - The Recycling Industry Will Resurface, But When?
8/21/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Survey: Americans continue to recycle despite doubts
8/20/19: Resource Recycling - Indonesia’s fiber import rules become more clear
8/20/19: Resource Recycling - Several sizable cities cut curbside recycling
8/20/19: Resource Recycling - Plastics recovery project underway in Pacific Northwest
8/20/19: Resource Recycling - Fiber giants don’t expect recycled paper price movement
8/16/19: Waste Dive - Scrap Collector: Australia's recyclable export ban creates domestic opportunities — including incineration
8/15/19: Recycling Today - ISRI learns of Indonesia’s plans to severely restrict prohibitives in recovered fiber imports
8/14/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastic shipments to India stall as ban draws near
8/14/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastic collectors experience persistent market strife
8/14/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Prices down for key curbside plastics
8/13/19: AZfamily.com (video) - No more recycling in City of Surprise due to rising costs
8/13/19: MagicValley.com - Recycling program to continue without plastics, mixed paper
8/13/19: Resource Recycling - Plastic shipments to India stall as ban draws near
8/13/19: Resource Recycling - Prices for recycled paper and plastic stay painfully low
8/13/19: Resource Recycling - Companies plan investments in US recycled paper mills
8/12/19: Berg Mill Supply Co. - Your Recycling May Not Be Going Where You Think
8/9/10: The Lane Report - Phoenix Paper plans $200M recycling facility at Ballard County mill; 500 jobs
8/9/19: Waste360.com - Australia Vows to Ban Recycled Waste Exports
8/8/19: San Jose Mercury News - Walters: California goal of reducing trash is a wasted effort
8/8/19: Waste360.com - Recycled Plastic Exports Plunge in First Half of 2019
8/7/19: CISION PR Newswire - China's Waste Ban Creates Growth Opportunities for the Circular Economy in Developed Countries
8/7/19: Waste Dive - Why China's 2020 total scrap import ban may not be so clear cut
8/7/19: Waste Dive - Public company recycling revenues down nearly 9% so far this year
8/7/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastics recovery project underway in Pacific Northwest
8/7/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Sirmax to build U.S. plastics recycling plant
8/7/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Scrap plastic exports plummet 43% this year
8/6/19: Marketplace - RePlanet shuts down amid trying times for recycling industry
8/6/19: Resource Recycling - Low commodity prices hammer hauler revenues
8/6/19: Resource Recycling - Scrap plastic exports plummet 43% this year, paper stable
8/1/19: Bloomberg - Plastic Waste Piles Up as Indonesia's Import Crackdown Backfires
8/1/19: Cal Matters - Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like
7/31/19: Waste360.com - Indonesia Returns Illegally Imported Waste to France, Hong Kong
7/31/19: Waste Dive - Precipitous drop in reclaimed plastic film exports drags down recovery efforts
7/31/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastics recycling garners federal attention amid rising pressure
7/31/19: The Daily Journal (video) - Grand jury: San Mateo County facing major waste challenges
7/30/19: Resource Recycling - Federal politicians highlight recycling and plastic waste
7/28/19: The Wall Street Journal - ‘We Are Swamped’: How a Global Trash Glut Hurt a $25 Billion Industry
7/27/19: CNBC (video) - America is drowning in garbage. Now robots are being put on duty to help solve the recycling crisis
7/26/19: You Tube (video) - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know - Asian Nations Reject Western Trash | The Daily Show
7/26/19: Reuters - Indonesia plans new rules to curb jump in imports of plastic waste
7/25/19: Waste360.com - Indonesian Paper Import Restrictions Remain Unknown
7/24/19: MSN News - How China Is Trying To Stem Its Massive Plastic Pollution Problem
7/24/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Cambodia rejects 3.2 million pounds of scrap plastic
7/23/19: Closed Loop Partners - What's Going on in China: Recycling's Rise to Power
7/23/19: Resource Recycling - Cambodia returns scrap plastic to US and Canada
7/23/19: Resource Recycling - Indonesian import restrictions remain up in the air
7/21/19: Hartford Courant - The cost of recycling keeps going up, and cities need help.
7/19/19: Waste360.com - Cambodia to Send 1,600 Tonnes of Waste Back to the U.S., Canada
7/19/19: Waste360.com - Bristol, Va., Struggles with Trash Pileups After Recycling Program Ends
7/17/19: The Guardian - 'Not a dustbin': Cambodia to send plastic waste back to the US and Canada
7/17/19: Waste Dive - Recycling to resume in Florida county after 6-month suspension
7/17/19: Waste Dive - New Hampshire passes recycling study bill amid market challenges
7/17/19: Plastics Recycling Update - US asks developed nations to omit Basel plastic rules
7/17/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Modest changes in scrap plastics pricing
7/17/19: Plastics Recycling Update - How one state could boost its recycling resilience
7/16/19: Houston Chronicle - More recycled plastic needed to meet Walmart, Ikea, others' goals, report finds
7/16/19: Resource Recycling - Recycling firm plunges into papermaking with $320M mill
7/16/9: Resource Recycling - OCC and aluminum prices stuck in the doldrums
7/15/19: Resource Recycling - Community Spotlight: L.A. planners juggle goals, markets and huge volumes of material
7/15/19: Waste360.com - Crossroads Paper Plans to Construct Recycled Paper Mill in Utah
7/12/19: Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz county eyes sweeping plastic prohibitions
7/10/19: WJHL News (video) - Bristol, Va. dealing with increased amount of trash piling up, months after recycling program ends
7/10/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Optimistic outlook for the plastics recycling market
7/10/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Export hurdles create trouble for rigids and film recovery
7/9/19: Press Herald - Market shifts prompt bill to shore up Maine recycling programs
7/9/19: The Guardian - Indonesia sends rubbish back to Australia and says it's too contaminated to recycle
7/9/19: The Washington Post - Indonesia returning 57 containers of developed world’s waste
7/9/19: Resource Recycling - Experts express optimism for paper and plastic markets
7/9/19: Resource Recycling - How one state could boost its recycling resilience
7/9/19: Resource Recycling - Oregon mill may look to source recycled fiber
7/8/19: Berg Mill Supply - Has the Cardboard Recycling Industry Fallen Flat?
7/4/19: Asparagus Magazine - Recycling May be Down, But Don’t Count it Out Yet
7/3/19: Waste360.com - Two Communities End Curbside Recycling Programs
7/2/19: The Jakarta Post - Indonesia sends more toxic waste, trash back to US, Europe, Australia
7/2/19: Waste Dive - Chinese port shuts out scrap metal imports 3 days before new restrictions take effect
7/1/19: KRON (video) - Sierra Vista ends curbside recycling pick up, opens drop-off site
7/1/19: South China Morning Post - Shanghai begins new waste sorting era, as China eyes cleaner image
6/29/19: Bloomberg - China's War on Trash Is the World's, Too
6/26/19: Waste Today Magazine - Cleveland’s recyclables sent to landfills
6/26/19: Waste Dive - Oregon communities reach agreement with Waste Connections to revive recycling
6/26/19: Bloomberg - Japan's Waste-to-Power Fix for Asia Undercuts Lower Carbon Goals
6/26/19: Waste Dive - Sorting out the future of mixed paper
6/25/19: Resource Recycling - Not much light at end of mixed-paper tunnel
6/25/19: Resource Recycling - Takeaways from one state recycling gathering
6/25/19: Resource Recycling - Market woes cause MRF closure in Ontario
6/25/19: Waste360.com - Report Details the Impact of China’s New Import Policies
6/24/19: Pensacola News Journal - Santa Rosa County could suspend all recycling for the foreseeable future
6/24/19: Berg Mill Supply - Are Indonesia’s New RCP Import Requirements Breaking the Bale?
6/23/19: Nikkei Asian Review - Southeast Asia's trash, Japan Inc.'s power-generating treasure
6/21/19: The Guardian - Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows
6/21/19: Waste360.com - IntegriCo Accepts Plastic That China Will Not
6/21/19: Waste Dive - Scrap Collector: Southeast Asian activists call for ASEAN ban on foreign waste imports
6/20/19: Prince William Times - American Disposal Services fined for trashing recyclables
6/19/19: Waste360.com - Indonesia Adopts ISRI Specs for Recovered Paper, Returns Trash Imports
6/19/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Articles highlight ‘crisis’ in US plastics recycling
6/19/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Scrap plastic exports moved up in April
6/18/19: Resource Recycling - Beverage giant to open SE Asia recycling plant
6/18/19: Resource Recycling - Indonesia slightly scales back paper import restrictions
6/18/19: Resource Recycling - Recycled material exports trend upward in April
6/18/19: WBUR (audio) - Chinese Investment In U.S. Paper Mills Boosts Industry
6/17/19: Waste360.com - China Ban Could Disrupt Singapore’s “Zero Waste” Plans
6/17/19: WDBJ7.com (video) - Roanoke City will pay nearly double to keep curbside recycling
6/17/19: Reuters - Indonesia becomes latest Southeast Asian country to return waste to the West
6/13/19: NOLA.com - Tighter margins narrow the New Orleans recycling stream
6/13/19: The Center for Public Integrity - America’s grungy ‘recycled’ plastic is creating wastelands in Asia
6/12/19: Waste Dive - Recycling trade associations still see potential to grow export markets
6/12/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Beverage giant to open SE Asia recycling plant
6/11/19: Waste360.com - Why (and How) to Talk Optimistically About Recycling Right Now
6/11/19: Resource Recycling - With OCC plummeting, MRFs face tough decisions
6/11/19: Resource Recycling - Recovered fiber values continue to drop
6/10/19: Berg Mill Supply - Recycling Challenges Bring Opportunities For Growth
6/7/19: The New York Times - Recyclers Cringe as Southeast Asia Says It’s Sick of the West’s Trash
6/6/19: MSN Money - The backlash to plastic has oil companies worried
6/5/19: Bloomberg - Southeast Asia Should Want the World's Junk
6/5/19: The Conversation - As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home
6/5/19: KHOU 11 - ‘That’s just wrong’ | City caught dumping more recyclables at landfills
6/5/19: Waste Dive - Southern California city rejects new recycling contract amid market volatility
6/5/19: Waste Dive - Philadelphia cancels recycling rewards program
6/5/19: Waste360.com - NWRA Unveils Program to Help Members Grow Export Opportunities
6/5/19: Waste360.com - Hong Kong Braces for Drastic Drop in Recycling Prices
6/3/19: Resource Recycling - Putting it all in perspective
5/31/19: Waste Dive - Scrap Collector: Malaysia returning 3,300 tons of contaminated plastic scrap
5/30/19: Waste360.com - China to Begin Issues Scrap Metal Licenses, Quotas in June
5/30/19: Waste360.com - What's California's True Recycling Story?
5/30/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Chemical recycling firm lands $35 million in backing
5/30/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Malaysia kicks loads back to exporters
5/29/19: The State Journal - Frankfort, Franklin County exploring paper recycling options
5/29/19: South China Morning Post - China to issue scrap metal import licences and quotas as it clamps down on waste
5/29/19: The Star (video) - Malaysia makes its stand on waste
5/29/19: Resource Recycling - Recycled fiber mill coming, existing plant sold
5/28/19: Berg Mill Supply - Exporting Pollution and Smuggling Scrap
5/28/19: Reuters - China to issue scrap import licenses by end-June, earlier than expected by industry
5/28/19: The New York Times - Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic
5/28/19: Fox News - Malaysia to return 3,300 tons of waste back to several countries, including US, citing illegal dumping
5/28/19: San Jose Mercury News - Opinion: California must stop dumping toxic plastic waste abroad
5/23/19: Waste360.com - Brightmark Breaks Ground on Plastics-to-fuel Facility in Indiana
5/22/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastic exports continue steep declines
5/22/19: Waste360.com - Report Analyzes China's New Recovered Paper Policies and Markets
5/21/19: East Bay Express - Recycling's Sword of Damocles
5/21/19: Bangor Daily News - How a Chinese company plans to revitalize 2 struggling Maine mills
5/21/19: Resource Recycling - Paper exports stable but plastics drop dramatically
5/21/19: Resource Recycling - Local leaders respond to market challenges
5/21/19: Resource Recycling - Recycling will likely feel tariff impacts - again
5/20/19: WKAR/NPR (audio) - Michigan's Recycling Industry is "Looking Back to Move Forward"
5/20/19: The Orange County Register - Your recyclables are going to the dump and here's why
5/20/19: MENAFN - Chinese import of solid waste declines in 4 months
5/18/19: ABC News - China's ban on scrap imports a boon to US recycling plants
5/17/19: The New Orleans Advocate - City announces reduction in curbside recycling in New Orleans; Jefferson finds temporary fix
5/17/19: Waste360.com - Lexington, Hy., Suspends Paper Recycling - For Now
5/15/19: Lexington Herald Leader - Confused by Lexington's decision to stop recycling paper? Here's what you need to know.
5/15/19: Waste Dive - Major recyclers deny still exporting plastic overseas
5/15/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Recycling efforts receive millions in state funding
5/15/19: Plastics Recycling Update - What's needed to recover e-plastics domestically?
5/14/19: Resource Recycling - Paper giants talk mixed paper and OCC outlook
5/14/19: Resource Recycling - Basel changes may have 'bigger impact' than China ban
5/14/19: Resource Recycling - Why the U.S. paper recovery rate rose last year
5/13/19: Resource Recycling - Data Corner: How export markets shifted from 2017 to 2018
5/13/19: Resource Recycling - Q&A: Rolling with the markets
5/10/19: Phys.org - 180 nations agree UN deal to regulate export of plastic waste
5/10/19: E&E News - Isolated Taiwan offers solution to Asia's plastic problems
5/9/19: Recycling Today - AF&PA reports paper recycling rate reaches 68.1 percent
5/7/19: Scientific American - Can Robots Help Pick Up after the Recycling Crisis?
5/6/19: KBIA Radio (audio) - How China's Import Ban is Affecting Mid-Missouri Recycling
5/6/19: Berg Mill Supply - Cleaning Up the Garbage Trade
5/4/19: NOLA - Largest recycler in New Orleans area won't take household discards anymore
5/3/19: Waste360.com - Malaysia Cracks Down on Illegal Plastic Recycling Facilities
5/3/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - Commentary: Is Recycling an Ideas whose Time has passed?
5/2/19: Waste360.com - China Introduces New Application Process for Nonferrous Scrap Imports
5/1/19: Sanger Herald - Recycling markets cause trouble for collectors
5/1/19: Recycling International - Indian import deadline drives temporary price hike
5/1/19: Waste DFive - Washington state recycling market incubator bill signed into law
4/30/19: Plastic Pollution Coalition - Six Times More Plastic Waste is Burned in U.S. than is Recycled
4/30/19: Resource Recycling - Hauler struggles persist into 2019
4/29/19: Waste360.com - Tucson, Arioz., Cuts Back Recycling Program to Reduce Costs
4/27/19: CNN (video) - China's recycling ban has sent America's plastic to Malaysia. Now they don't want it -- so what next?
4/26/19: Waste Dive - Scrap Collector: Investigation reveals pervasive plastic scrap smuggling into Malaysia
4/25/19: VOA - China Plastic Waste Ban Throws Global Recycling into Chaos
4/25/19: Waste360.com - Report: "Communities on the Frontlines of the Global Plastic Crisis"
4/25/19: Waste360.com - Scrap Paper and Plastic Exports Continue to Decline
4/24/19: Bureau of International Recycling - China to introduce new application procedure for non-ferrous scrap imports - possibly by late may
4/24/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastic exports continue to drop
4/24/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Why banned shipments are still getting into Malaysia
March/April 2019: Scrap - What's Recyclable?
4/24/19: Waste Dive - How Los Angeles is adapting to market changes - with an eye toward Mexico
4/24/19: Waste Trade Stories - DISCARDED: Communities on the Frontlines of the Global Plastic Crisis
4/23/19: MayalMail - Climate change minister declares war on plastic waste smugglers after container-loads found in Klang
4/23/19: Resource Recycling - Groups warn that 'recycling is not enough'
4/23/19: Waste Dive - Report: Global plastic trade's 'staggering' costs in Southeast Asia
4/23/19: Resource Recycling - Exports of recycled paper and plastic fall again
4/22/19: ABC News (video) - More waste is going to landfills, less is recycled. What's going on?
4/22/19: TODAY (video) - An inside look at efforts to 'save' recycling as some cities scrap their programs
4/20/19: News.com.au (video) - 'We are in a crisis': Australia's recycling nightmare
4/20/19: The Daily Item - Glut of recyclables creates challenges in Pennsylvania
4/20/19: Mountain Xpress - WNC adjusts to shifts in recycling market
4/20/19: Mail Tribune - It's not easy being green
April 2019: Parks and Recreation Magazine - Recycling is Dead. Now What?
4/17/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Recovered polyolefin prices fall
4/17/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Commercial plastics-to-fuel plant receives financing
4/17/19: Waste Dive - Unpacking the international business potential of China's scrap import ban
4/16/19: Waste360.com - Dear Plastics Industry: We are Headed for a Divorce
4/16/19: Resource Recycling - Recycled paper prices fall further
4/15/19: CBS Sacramento (video) - Recycling Plants Looking Toward Stricter Recycling Standards
4/14/19: NBC News - Everything Americans think they know about recycling is probably wrong
4/14/19: WBUR.org (audio) - Global Recycling Is A Dumpster Fire. Literally
4/11/19: KCUR - How Kansas City Recycling Companies Are Adapting To A Chinese Plastic Waste Import Ban
4/10/19: Huffington Post - How A Picturesque Fishing Town Became Smothered In Trash
4/10/19: Waste Dive - ISRI2019: Recycled paper mill cost structure 'probably never looked better'
4/10/19: Waste Dive - Closed Loop report calls for increased investment in chemical recycling
4/10/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Bottlers report recycled plastic use in California
4/10/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Study details 'transformational' tech in plastics recycling
4/10/19: Waste Dive - Texas recycling industry backing legislation to boost domestic markets
4/9/19: Standard-Examiner - Ogden City recycling back on for now
4/9/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - Iowa and Tennessee Become Fourth and Fifth States to Pass Legislation to Help Recover More Plastics
4/9/19: Waste360.com - The Problem with Plastics
4/9/19: Resource Recycling - China reiterates total ban and tries to define 'solid waste'
4/8/19: Berg Mill Supply - Reduce, Reuse, and Incinerate?
4/8/19: Resource Recycling - Chinese fiber import permits down 13% from last year
4/8/19: Nashville Public Radio (audio) - Nashville Doubles Down On Curbside Recycling Program And Renegotiates Contract
4/5/19: Slate - Recycling Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About Profit.
4/5/19: Waste Dive - Phoenix awards contract to Renewlogy for chemical recycling project
4/5/19: Fastmarkets RISI - Oversupplied OCC drops $10-15/ton domestic, $15 export as demand is extremely soft from US mills and from China
4/5/19: Fastmarkets RISI - Recovered Paper: Like China, Indonesia plans 0.5% contaminant rule, to inspect 100% of containers
4/5/19: Chicago Tribune - Recycling crisis: China doesn't want California's waste. Now what?
4/4/19: Calaveras Enterprise - China ban on recyclables to jeopardize local waste management funding
4/4/19: Fast Company - All the ways recycling is broken - and how to fix them
4/4/19: Waste Dive - Indonesian government delays tight fiber inspection policies
4/3/19: The Richmond Standard - Richmond council votes in favor of surcharges for improper recycling
4/3/19: Waste Dive - What does 'recycling' actually mean?
4/3/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Officials say Vietnam to end plastic imports in 2025
4/3/19: Plastics Recycling Update - U.S. scrap plastic exports hit a 14-year low
4/3/19: Waste360.com - How Recycling has Changed Since National Sword
4/3/19: Waste360.com - Recycling Challenges Abound for Charleston, S.C., Area
April/May 2019: Bay Area Monitor - Re-Evaluating Recycling
April/May 2019: Bay Area Monitor - Wishful Thinking About Landfills
4/2/19: Vox - America's new recycling crisis, explained by an expert
4/2/19: East Bay Times - Recycling crisis: China doesn't want our waste. Now what?
4/2/19: Resource Recycling - Officials say Vietnam to end plastic imports in 2025
4/2/19: Resource Recycling - Indonesia delays strict paper requirements
4/2/19: Resource Recycling - January saw flat paper exports but lower plastic volume
4/2/19: Food Business News - Effective waste reduction requires closing the loop
4/1/19: Marin Independent Journal - Mill Valley Recycling seeks vote on double-bin recycling
4/1/19: Bloomberg - No Silver Bullet for China's Plastics Problem
4/1/19: The Nib - It's Time to Rethink How Recycling is Done
4/1/19: CBS News (video) - Why recycling efforts are getting trashed: "This is a total no-no"
4/1/19: City Lab - How American Recycling Is Changing After China's National Sword
3/29/19: GreenBiz - Are you ready for Round 3 of the plastic waste trade war?
3/29/19: The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus' recycling efforts remain strong despite China's ban on imported waste
3/28/19: Pasadena Weekly - Garbage piles up as the recycling market breaks down
3/28/19: Waste360.com - India Sees Growth in Nonferrous and Paper Scrap Imports
3/27/19: Waste Dive - Prince William County, Virginia eliminates glass, some plastics from curbside recycling
3/27/19: Reuters - China plans to cut waste imports to zero by nex: official
3/27/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Berry pushes further into recycling industry
3/27/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Investments contradict 'end of recycling' headlines
3/27/19: Plastics Recycling Update - How recyclables price sheets have compared in recent years
3/26/19: Crain's New York Business - Hard choices needed to save recycling
3/26/19: Waste Dive - Recycling in the US will survive - despite the media narrative
3/26/19: Resource Recycling - Entrepreneur explains his recycling market contest
3/26/19: Resource Recycling - Bridging the U.S.-China gap to strengthen recycling
3/26/19: Resource Recycling - Investments contradict 'end of recycling' headlines
3/25/19: Resource Recycling - A steady path forward
3/25/19: Recycling Today - India's growth story
3/25/19: Waste360.com - The Rebirth of Cardboard Production in America
3/24/19: South Bend Tribune - South Bend area largely avoids recycling Armageddon
3/23/19: Fortune - China Has Had Enough of Your Garbage
3/22/19: Waste360.com - India Delays Scrap Plastic Ban
3/22/19: The New York Times - The Great American Cardboard Comeback
3/21/19: Foundation for Economic Eduation - America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn't Work
3/21/19: Waste360.com - NERC Conference Day One Tackles Polypropylene, Recycling Markets
3/21/19: Waste360.com - How MRFs Are Dealing with Tighter Fiber Quality Standards
3/21/19: Waste360.com - Report: $18B in Potential Economic Output from Plastics Recycling Technologies
3/20/19: CBS News (video) - U.S. cities have nowhere to put their recycling
3/20/19: You Tube (video) - Ellen DeGeneres and Ryan Hickman video says "let's fix U.S. recycling"
3/20/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Bridging the U.S.-China gap to boost plastics recycling
3/20/19: Waste Dive - 'Life After National Sword': Domestic market pivot, growing plastics backlash
3/20/19: Waste360.com - Memphis, Tenn., Sends Tons of Recyclables to Landfill
3/19/19: San Francisco Chronicle - Editorial: San Francisco needs to stay in front of a crumbling recycling market
3/19/19: Tampa Bay Times - House panel clears bill to help stop recycling from ending up in the trash
3/19/19: Resource Recycling - Values slip for key curbside recyclables
3/19/19: Resource Recycling - India may postpone scrap import ban
3/19/19: Resource Recycling - Paper exports grew in 2018, but plastics fell 35 percent
3/19/19: WBUR (audio) - How A New Policy in China Has Led To A Recycling Crisis In Mass.
3/18/19: Vox - Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
3/18/19: Waste360.com - U.S. Cities Continue to Struggle Under Volatile Recycling Conditions
3/17/19: The San Diego Union-Tribune - Cities scrambling to clean up curbside recycling in wake of China ban
3/16/19: The New York Times - As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
3/15/19: Waste360.com - Southeast Asia Faces Floods of Plastic Trash
3/1/19: Plastics News - Recyclers invest in US processing in wake of National Sword
3/13/19: NPR - Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It?
3/13/19: Wired - The World's Recycling is in Chaos. Here's What Has to Happen
3/13/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Processor expands to meet growing recycled film demand
3/13/19: Plastics Recycling Update - U.S. Scrap plastic exports fell 35 percent last year
3/13/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Price of key curbside plastic falls significantly
3/12/19: Patch - Shoreline Recycling Rates May Increase, Trade War Partly To Blame
3/12/19: BBC - Why India is a world leader in waste paper
3/12/19: Waste Dive - India extends timeline for plastic scrap import ban
3/12/19: Waste360.com - Report: U.S. Sent 157,000 Shipping Containers of Plastic Waste to Other Countries in 2018
3/9/19: The Boston Globe - Recycling can't fix what really ails us
3/8/19: Huffington Post - Why Southeast Asia Is Flooded With Trash From America And Other Wealthy Nations
3/8/19: Waste Dive - Recycling market incubator bill advances in Washington State legislature
3/8/19: Waste360.com - Connecticut Municipalities Call for New Recycling Infrastructure
3/7/19: Waste Dive - How Phoenix's multimillion-dollar recycling investment will place them in 'catbird seat'
3/7/19: Waste360.com - India Announces Plans to Ban Scrap Plastic Imports
3/7/19: Waste Dive - NWRA seeks Trump's help in reversing China's scrap ban
3/6/19: Plastic Pollution Coalition - 157,000 Shipping Containers of U.S. Plastic Waste Exported to Countries with Poor Waste Management in 2018
3/6/19: Plastics Recycling Update - India to end plastic scrap imports
3/6/19: Globenewswire.com - Enviroplast and Canada Fibers Form a Strategic Partnership to Recycle Plastic Film
3/5/19: The Atlantic - Is This the End of Recycling
3/5/19: Resource Recycling - Fiber consumers to increase recycled appetite
3/4/19: Recycling Today - What to do with mixed paper
3/4/19: Waste360.com - CRI's "Duty to Warn" Webinar Debunks Recycling Myths
3/4/19: Hartford Courant - Cities and towns face soaring recycling costs, urge state action to help local
taxpayers
3/4/19: Recycling Today - What to do with mixed paper
3/4/19: Berg Mill Supply - MRFs Are Planting the Seeds for Sustainability as the Market Shifts
3/2/19: The Wall Street Journal - Help, We're Drowning in Recycling! Cue the 'Internet of Trash'
3/1/19: The Post and Courier - A month of recyclables sit at a Charleston County landfill with an uncertain fate
2/28/19: Waste Dive - California state legislators want to phase out non-recyclable plastic products by 2030
2/27/19: Wired - Since China's Ban, Recycling in the US has Gone up in Flames
2/27/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Plastic collectors feel the cut from National Sword
2/26/19: Resource Recycling - California bill pushes cities to return to dual-stream
2/25/19: Waste360.com - Communities Turn to Burning Recyclables Amid China Ban
2/25/19: Waste360.com - Happy Anniversary, National Sword
2/24/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - Philadelphia, PA Suburbs Struggle with 'New Normal' in Recycling Programs
2/21/19: San Francisco Examiner - The Recycling Myth
2/21/19: The Guardian - 'Moment of Recokoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports
2/20/19: Plastics Recycling Update - West Coast reclaimers expand mixed-plastic capacity
2/20/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Film end user benefits from market conditions
2/20/19: Waste Dive - Massachusetts city, hauler head to trial over post-China recycling contract terms
2/19: NWRA Issue Brief - Recyclables: Changing Markets
2/19/19: Resource Recycling - National Sword bruises hauler recycling businesses
2/19/19: Resource Recycling - OCC movement slows alongside Chinese economy
2/13/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Renewlogy gets nod for Phoenix mixed-plastics program
2/12/19: 99%invisible.org (video) - National Sword
2/12/19: WAMU - Does Your Recycling Actually Get Recycled? Yes. Maybe. It Depends.
2/11/19: Berg Mill Supply - As China Cleans Up Their Act, We Can't Waste Our Opportunity
2/11/19: Waste Dive - California counties call for state commission on "significant" recycling disruptions
2/11/19: Waste Dive - Michigan gets unprecedented $15M boost for recycling in lame duck surprise
2/9/19: East Bay Times - China policy partly to blame for Bay Area recycling, garbage rate increase
2/8/19: Waste Dive - Republic Services has "overcome" China hurdle, says recycling success up to customers
2/7/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - Southbridge, MA Cracks Down on "Dirty" Recycling
2/6/19: Plastics Recycling Update - How hauling giant has reacted to export shifts
2/6/19: Plastics Recycling Update - End user reports PET price impacts
2/6/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Here's a domestic outlet hungry for 3-7 plastics
1/31/19: Financial Times (video) - The west's new recycling challenge
1/31/19: Waste360.com - Green Bay Packaging Launches 100% Recycled Paper Plant Using Mixed Papers
1/30/19: Plastics Recycling Update - China's scrap plastic imports down 99 percent
1/30/19: Waste360.com - Paying for Material Recovery: What's in Your Wallet?
1/29/19: ABC 7 News (video) - Bay Area garbage hauler pushing for fee if non-recyclable items placed in recycling bins
1/29/19: Resource Recycling - China: Plastic imports down 99 percent, paper down a third
1/29/19: Waste360.com - Recycling Groups Launch Paper Campaign in England
1/29/19: Waste Dive - APR: Recycled plastics reduce energy consumption, GHG emissions
1/28/19: Next City - Rethink, Retool, Then Recycle?
1/28/19: Waste Dive - How small cities around the country are fighting to save recycling
1/27/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - With 40 Perfect of Trash Now Recycled, Olathe, KS Refocuses its Efforts
1/27/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - There's Value in Recycling's Setback
1/23/19: Palo Alto Online - Palo Alto approves new deal for waste collection
1/22/19: Resource Recycling - Demand growth key to plastics recycling acquisitions
1/22/19: Waste Dive - Recology leans into recycling solutions with $33M San Francisco upgrades
1/21/19: The Washington Post - A move by China puts U.S. small-town recycling programs in the dumps
1/21/19: Waste Advantage Magazine - $4.5M Phoenix Upgrade Will Get More Recyclables Out of the Landfill
1/18/19: Waste360.com - Malaysia to Shutter 100 Illegal Plastic Waste Factories
1/16/19: Plastics Recycling Update - Recology CEO: It's time to tackle plastics crisis
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