Tag: bottles

April 16, 2021

PHOENIX – This Earth Day, Republic Services is releasing pandemic recycling data showing significant increases in the recycling of cardboard boxes, aluminum cans and plastic and glass bottles over the last year, reflecting a shift in consumer behavior to more […]

November 16, 2020

Paterson, NJ officials are building a new recycling center to be named the Montgomery Street Recycling Center. The recycling center will have four bays each with 40-yard dumpsters for bottles, cans, papers and cardboards and tree brushes for residents to […]

July 16, 2020

The pandemic has significantly increased the use of plastics to limit the spread of the virus. From gloves to masks and bottles, we are all guilty of using single-use items. According to MarketsandMarkets, the market for plastic packaging is projected […]

October 17, 2019

The PepsiCo Foundation and national nonprofit The Recycling Partnership announced that their “All In On Recycling” challenge has successfully raised $25 million in a little more than a year since it launched in July 2018. The challenge seeks to make […]

October 2, 2019

India announced this week that it is postponing its plan to impose a ban on single-use plastics as the industry copes with an economic slowdown and job losses. Reuters reports that the plan was to implement a ban on plastic […]

September 12, 2019

Recycled glass could get a market boost in certain areas of the south with the aniticipated development of two new facilities. Arglass Yamamura announced it is planning to build a $123 million bottle plant in Valdosta, Ga., that could potentially […]

February 8, 2019

Hong Kong’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) has rolled out the Glass Container Recycling Charter and a series of promotional and publicity activities to further raise public awareness on glass bottle recycling. Officiating at a launch ceremony, the Secretary for the […]

December 28, 2018

Recycling Centers across the country are being inundated with wrapping paper, cardboard, boxes, bottles and cans now that Christmas has come and gone. One recycling center in Springfield, Mo., had cars lined up before the center’s gates opened after Christmas. […]

November 16, 2018

In the US and Canada the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announced today the release of the Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2017. The report cites a 2017 […]

November 1, 2017

The recycling rate for PET plastic bottles in the US was 28.4% in 2016, reflecting a decline of 2.4% in collection volumes, according to the latest figures from National Association for PET Container Resources and The Association of Plastic Recyclers. […]