Category: RMDZ

A recently launched design feedback resource from the Recycled Materials Association has three key objectives: to decrease contamination at MRFs, increase quality of bales sent to paper mills and provide immediate feedback to producers about the recyclability of their packaging.Continue Reading→ Source: Tool gauges recyclability of fiber packaging

Analyses of volume and dollar and traditional and emerging markets are presented, along with an assessment of incentives such as carbon credits and soil organic matter mandates. Source: Compost Market Development | BioCycle

Solid waste management and recycling continues to challenge communities. Some impacted more than others. Despite this, many companies and agencies in Source: Recycling Leaders from California Acknowledged for Pushing the Envelope with Plastic and Textile Recycling – Waste Advantage Magazine

A data-driven guide for businesses, government, funders, and nonprofits to collectively reduce food waste at scale. Together, we can reduce U.S. food waste by 50% by 2030. Source: Five Strategies For Reducing Greenhouse Gases Through Food Waste Reduction

Recycling Today Source: US Plastics Pact issues recyclability guidelines – Recycling Today

The PET Recycling Coalition reports it’s been able to help capture more PET bottles and non-bottle PET packaging. There’s still more demand for clear recycled PET, while interest in pigmented or opaque rPET is low. Source: 28% of PET bottles are being recycled, The Recycling Partnership reports | Packaging Dive

At its first sustainability summit, the organization highlighted plans to scale up textile recycling while continuing to foster regional film plastic partnerships. Leaders also weighed in on California’s pending textile EPR bill.

Recent research from the climate target validation organization found that “various types of carbon credits are ineffective in delivering their intended mitigation outcome.” Source: SBTi: ‘Clear risks’ to using carbon credits to offset emissions | ESG Dive

Bloomberg Intelligence has once again estimated a significantly lower OCC recycling rate than the paper manufacturing sector, and it revised past years’ rates with an updated methodology. Continue Reading→ Source: Bloomberg Intelligence shares 66% OCC recycling rate

 Beverage container redemption rates for 2023 in seven of the nine U.S. deposit return system (DRS, aka bottle bill) states with available data dropped in Source: New Data Show That 2023 Beverage Container Redemption Rates in More Than Half of U.S. States With Deposit Return Systems Dropped Slightly Compared to 2022 – Waste Advantage Magazine