“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Although Alfred A. (Fred) Nijkerk has been involved in the scrap industry since 1956, he has journeyed back in history much further than that for his new booklet, “Recycling through the ages.” The ...

Today's technologies are ready for the recycle and reuse of a variety of post-consumer plastic streams. However, achieving scale and competitive economics are necessary to create a circular economy ...

LANSING, Mich. — (WLNS) — ‘Go Green’ is taking on another meaning in the city of Lansing. Instead of driving long distances to find a recycling center, residents will now have more options and access ...

It may not be true that the Paper Stock Industries (PSI) chapter of ISRI (the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc.) started its specifications efforts with Egyptian papyrus, as noted with ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Metro Nashville received the government recycler of the year award at the 2024 Recycler of the Year Awards hosted by the Tennessee Recycling Coalition. That award was given ...