Category: RMDZ

Only about 2% of U.S. households can currently recycle film and flexible plastics, largely due to limited infrastructure and a lack of strong end markets—an issue California must urgently address to meet its ambitious SB 54 recycling targets or face steep penalties.

California deposit expansion spurs glass pilot projects A pot of money created when California added wine and spirits bottles into its container redemption program is being used to fund glass recycling pilot projects, including a commercial collection program in the heart of wine country. Continue Reading→ The post California deposit expansion spurs glass pilot projects…

Office of Public Affairs For Immediate Release: May 19, 2025 Media Contact: Lance Klug | [email protected] SACRAMENTO– With broad support from local government, environmental and industry groups, on May 12, the California State Senate voted unanimously to confirm Zoe Heller as Director of CalRecycle. Widely respected with deep expertise in zero-waste and circular… Source

Amid sweeping federal staffing cuts, the future of a government program to assess processes to make food packaging from recycled plastics is unclear, sources told Plastics Recycling Update in recent interviews. Continue Reading→ Source: Clarity on future of FDA LNO program yet to emerge

Google X and Dow Chemical are collaborating to develop an artificial intelligence sorting system capable of identifying film plastics and mixed materials, they announced at a conference in April.Continue Reading→ Source: Google, Dow partner on AI to identify recyclables

Industry professionals at this year’s conference called for coordinated battery fire prevention strategies, including integrating newer tech like x-ray sorters, to fight growing battery waste streams such as vapes.

A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here’s how it works. Source: The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic | Grist

Packaging and recycling sectors connect in Seattle A common complaint among MRF operators is that they have little meaningful contact with the packaging industry, despite dealing with headaches from that industry’s products every single day. Continue Reading→ The post Packaging and recycling sectors connect in Seattle appeared first on Resource Recycling News.

CalRecycle to fund mixed plastics facility, other projects California’s state recycling agency will provide $10 million toward a facility sorting plastics with resin codes 2-7, additional multimillion dollar grants for several major MRF retrofits, and a handful of smaller awards for localities to install recycling collection containers. Continue Reading→ The post CalRecycle to fund mixed…

Recycling Today Source: Recycle From Home adds another California city – Recycling Today