Recycling Today

ICR serves a variety of industries, including mining and aggregates, power generation, oil and gas, construction, steel, building materials manufacturing, package handling and distribution, wood/pulp/paper, cement and asphalt, recycling and marine terminals.

A research team from the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability has received a grant from the Council of the Great Lakes Region Foundation as part of its Circular Great Lakes Initiative.

Product packaging is an essential component of our increasingly e-commerce driven, fully globalized economy. However, it comes with a downside:

The statistics collected and published by the Washington-based American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) indicate mills in the U.S. have been operating at an average 75.8 percent capability utilization (capacity) rate so far this year, which is down slightly from the 76.1 percent average rate in the first 11 months of 2023.

Despite some progress, some familiar points of contention—namely the push to cap plastics production, establish a financial mechanism to implement the agreement and the management of “chemicals of concern” found in plastic products—led to a weeklong stalemate at the INC-5 gathering in Busan, South Korea.

Online media reports in Minnesota indicate ReMA has sued Grace Arnold “in her capacity as commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce” over a law that has been passed with the intention of stopping the theft of copper items, including in-use wiring.

Mazza Recycling Services, a hauler and recycler of metals and C&D materials and an operator of a single-stream material recovery facility (MRF), says it has acquired Berlin, New Jersey-based Bull Waste & Recycling. Bull was acquired from the Mount Group, also based in Berlin.

Atilla Widnell of Singapore-based Navigate Commodities predicted in late November that Turkish mills were unlikely to raise their bids. Recent reports from global metals price tracking service Davis Index indicate that prediction was accurate and also that buyers from India, Bangladesh or Pakistan seem unlikely to raise their offers this month.

Italy-based SGM Magnetics, with U.S. operations in Sarasota, Florida, and Cleansort GmbH have announced a strategic partnership agreement through which SGM will market and service Cleansort's laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, or LIBS, sorting technology in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, North America and selected regions in Asia.

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