RMDAS™ FERROUS SCRAP PRICE INDEX - Recycling Today
The recycling industry is responsible for collecting processing and marketing billions of dollars worth of metals, paper, plastics and other recovered materials. Through Recycling Today and Recycling Today Global Edition , market directories, and industry conferences, GIE serves the scrap and recycling industry in North America and globally.
Report finds aluminum cans remain most sustainable package
Dec 3, 2020 · The 20-year average for the consumer recycling rate is around 50 percent. The aluminum can remains by far the most valuable package in the recycling bin, with a value per ton of $1,210 per ton compared with $237 per ton for plastic and a negative value of $21 per ton for glass, based on a two-year rolling average through February 2019.
Addressing the challenge of injection molding regrind
Feb 4, 2020 · Imflux, a low, constant pressure molding technology, is designed to automatically adjust to material variability to maintain part quality. This ability to adapt to material variation is known as autoviscosity adjust within the Imflux software. Historically, processing recycled resins has been a challenge for the injection molding industry.
Magnetic Separation Basics - Recycling Today
Aug 15, 2001 · Magnetic Separation Basics. Scrap processors and recyclers should be familiar with the three main methods of magnetic separation. Magnetic separation systems began appearing in scrap yards after World War II when heavy duty shredders used for grinding automobiles started to pop up across the United States. The early magnetic separation systems ...
How2Recycle upgrades polypropylene to 'widely recyclable'
Aug 3, 2022 · How2Recycle, the North American packaging recyclability labeling system, has announced it is upgrading the eligibility of rigid polypropylene (PP) tubs, bottles, jugs and jars from "check locally" to "widely recyclable" in the United States. The group says it was provided data from The Recycling Partnership 's Polypropylene Recycling Coalition ...
Rumpke to bring Hefty ReNew program to Greater Cincinnati area
Published October 24, 2023. Residents and businesses in eight counties across the greater Cincinnati area soon will be able to add an array of hard-to-recycle plastics to their curbside bins. Starting in November, Rumpke Waste & Recycling, headquartered in Cincinnati, will offer the Hefty ReNew program to customers in Butler, Clermont, Hamilton ...
Top Stories - Recycling Today
The recycling industry is responsible for collecting processing and marketing billions of dollars worth of metals, paper, plastics and other recovered materials. Through Recycling Today and Recycling Today Global Edition , market directories, and industry conferences, GIE serves the scrap and recycling industry in North America and globally.
Improving HDPE recycling - Recycling Today
Oct 27, 2020 · High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is one of the most commonly used and recycled plastics today. However, within the recycled HDPE stream, polypropylene (PP) contamination is a significant problem. The specific challenge that PP presents for HDPE recycling is that globally, the primary method to separate plastics is by density using a sink-float ...
The potential of polypropylene - Recycling Today
Jul 17, 2019 · Key takeaways. Reprocessors predict that the market potential for recycled polypropylene (PP) is huge. PP collection across the U.S. is small scale compared with collection of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Demand for postconsumer recycled PP is increasing, and global brands are showing more interest in ...
Domtar completes Kingsport conversion, resumes operations
Published January 18, 2023. Domtar has resumed operations at its mill in Kingsport, Tennessee, after completing the two-year conversion of the facility from an uncoated freesheet paper mill into the company’s first 100-percent-recycled packaging plant. The project totaled $350 million and, upon its completion, makes the site home to the ...