Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WM bales and sells the plastic film it recovers at its MRF in Germantown, Wisconsin, as it does for other materials such as OCC ...

Boosting recycling rates by unlocking new material supplies is one of the biggest challenges the recycling industry faces today, according to Brent Bell, vice president of recycling at WM. He says WM ...

Recycling of nonbottle rigid plastics and plastic wraps, bags and flexible film packaging (collectively known as film) grew by 10 percent in 2016, according to two reports from the American Chemistry ...

Winchester, Va.-based Trex Co. Inc. has launched an online national directory to make it easier for Americans to recycle plastic film waste. The goal of the NexTrex Plastics Recycling DropOff ...

The Film and Flexibles Recycling Coalition within the The Recycling Partnership made its first film packaging capture grant to Environmentally Friendly Solutions, which is better known as EFS-plastics ...

Dow and WM (formerly Waste Management) are launching a household curbside recycling program for plastic film in the US, starting with a pilot program in Hickory Hills, IL. The pilot, which will ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: The pandemic continues, so does the resulting refuse associated with it. The pandemic caused a huge uptick in plastic garbage in the US. Lots ...

The University of Nevada, Reno campus has new drop-off bins for recycling various plastic wrappings and packaging, known as plastic films. The Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) team and their waste ...