1 | Rhode Island takes on contaminated loads
The group that operates the only MRF in Rhode Island says it has seen significant increases in contamination over the last year, and it's starting to more frequently fine municipalities that send heavily tainted loads.
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2 | Resource Recycling Conference 2014: The shifting scrap plastics landscape
A year after the peak of China's Green Fence customs crackdown, plenty of questions remain when it comes to the movement of recovered plastics.
Are recycling operations finding new domestic end market opportunities or sticking with the same foreign destinations? Will Chinese plastics processors set up facilities in the U.S.? What's the role of energy recovery technologies?
At next week's Resource Recycling Conference, attendees will get some answers to those plastic puzzlers. SPI's Recycling Committee has been exploring the complex relationship of export markets and the domestic plastics recycling industry, and industry expert Kim Holmes will share the results of this critical research.
Resource Recycling Conference 2014 is taking place next week at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Sept. 15-17. Head to rrconference.com for more information.
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3 | Trex sees sales rise
The leading producer of wood-plastic composite products experienced a 23 percent jump in net sales to $121 million in the quarter ended June 30 over the previous year's sales performance.
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4 | PetroChem Wire: Recycled HDPE prices firm in early September
Prices for many grades of recycled HDPE are firm in early September due in part to strong demand from the horticultural industry and resultant spot shortages.
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5 | Putting film reclamation on a "Podium"
An ongoing industry effort to boost plastic film recovery is launching a new outreach effort.
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6 | Wide world of plastics recycling
A packaging giant in South Africa is moving forward on a PET recycling facility, and the U.K. gets some good news on its plastics recovery efforts.
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7 | NewsBits
A ban on bans? The Texas attorney general recently penned a letter that raises questions about whether municipalities in the state can act to prohibit plastic bags. That story and more in NewsBits.
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8 | Industry and supplier news
The president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, was on hand at this summer's opening ceremony for the expanded Petstar bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in Toluca, Mexico. The update includes equipment from Amut Group, and it allows the operation, owned by Coca-Cola and other Mexican investors, to now handle 1.5 billion PET bottles annually. Read more here.
Latvian plastics recycling firm SIA Nordic Plast, a division of environmental management corporate group Eco Baltia, has installed a recoSTAR basic 165 VAC recycling line supplied by Starlinger Recycling Technology in its newly opened production unit in the town of Olaine. Nordic Plast invested more than $3.2 million in the facility. Click here for more information.
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9 | Request for proposals
CARE is seeking proposals for a 12-18 month project to demonstrate value-added uses for PET recovered from post-consumer carpets. More information can be found here.
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10 | Upcoming conferences & webinars
Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars!
If you have a conference or webinar that you would like listed, please send an email to [email protected] for consideration.
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11 | Jobs Available & Sought
Product Development Manager, PRP Recycling (Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.
Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.
If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, send an email to web content manager Jade Rhianna at [email protected].
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