Article provides tips for recycling within current recycling systems; promotes reduction and reuse over recycling, emphasizes importance of material separation, stresses geographic variation in collection and recycling infrastructure
July 2, 2019
Report on difficult-to-recycle materials
ASTRX (Applying Systems Thinking to Recycling) project publishes report reviewing efficiency of packaging materials through recycling processes; highlights flexible films and shrink sleeves as problematic, calls for increased purchasing of recycled content to boost market demand
July 1, 2019
Questions surround French deposit scheme
Pending introduction of a deposit-return scheme for bottles in France raising questions by stakeholders; applicable materials, functioning, and cost distributions not yet clear
June 26, 2019
Recycling of flexible polyethylene
Plastics Recyclers Europe publishes paper identifying key barriers to increasing recycling of flexible polyethylene films, calls for harmonized collection and sorting as well as design for recycling guidelines
June 26, 2019
McDonald’s to trial new packaging
Two Canadian concept restaurant locations to trial new packaging including fully re-pulpable cups, fiber lids, wooden cutlery, paper straws; items could be rolled out widely in the future
June 18, 2019
California to act on single-use plastics
Senate and Assembly of California address circular economy and plastic pollution; focus on reduction and domestic recycling of single-use plastics
June 17, 2019
Guidance on sorting for recycling
Plastics Recyclers Europe publishes guidance on sorting to enable high-quality recycling
June 12, 2019
Canada to ban single-use plastics
Development of action plan announced for Canada-wide Strategy on Zero Plastic Waste; ban to focus on reducing plastic pollution, aims to begin by 2021 but details still to be finalized
May 27, 2019
U.S. recycling developments state by state
Waste Dive tracks daily changes to recycling schemes in each of the 50 U.S. states, expects continued turbulence as local governments adapt to international changes
May 16, 2019
EFSA recycling plastics group: 5th meeting
Minutes of the 5th meeting of EFSA’s CEP Panel working group on recycling plastics now available online
