WEST MICHIGAN — Have you ever wondered what truly happens when you drop off your recycled materials? For the second part of our Recycling Week Series, we're taking a dive into the Kent County ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

ACI Plastics began implementing sorting technology about 25 years ago; however, the Flint, Michigan-based thermoplastics processor and recycler became more focused on sorting and separating ...

Advances in sorting technology can pave the way for greater aluminum circularity, a supplier to the metals recycling industry says. Advanced scrap sorting can help melt shops produce recycled aluminum ...

Aluminum recycling presents multifaceted challenges, ranging from efficient alloy sorting to quality maintenance and purity of recycled materials. Material recovery facilities (MRFs) must process huge ...

National Harbor, Md. — Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled. But getting this ...