“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Although Alfred A. (Fred) Nijkerk has been involved in the scrap industry since 1956, he has journeyed back in history much further than that for his new booklet, “Recycling through the ages.” The ...

Today's technologies are ready for the recycle and reuse of a variety of post-consumer plastic streams. However, achieving scale and competitive economics are necessary to create a circular economy ...

A supplier is experimenting with a new method to make PHA resin — by growing it in plants. The technology may offer a lower-cost way to make the family of bio-based resins. Also, Karen Laird shared a ...

It may not be true that the Paper Stock Industries (PSI) chapter of ISRI (the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc.) started its specifications efforts with Egyptian papyrus, as noted with ...

The City of Bay City will begin rolling out 15,000 new recycling carts for all Bay City households as it officially launches its fully automated recycling collection service. The 96-gallon carts will ...