Toshiba America Business Solutions recycled more than 229 metric tons of e-waste – stemming from used toner products – in 2018.  The total marks the highest amount of e-waste the company has recycled in a calendar year. 

For the first time, brands of disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and razor plastic packaging are recyclable nationwide.

A coalition including many of the world’s largest consumer product companies, along with international recycling leader TerraCycle, today unveiled a global, first-of-its-kind, shopping system called Loop. The initiative is designed to change the world’s reliance on single-use packaging, offer a convenient and enhanced circular solution to consumers while securing meaningful environmental benefits.

Consumers will soon see the How2Recycle label on some Costco Wholesale Kirkland Signature™ brand products in stores across the U.S. The retail giant will use the label to make recycling different types of packaging easier.

Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics has announced Tim Boven as the new recycling commercial director for Latin America and North America and Carsten Larsen as recycling commercial director for EMEA & APAC. 

Avery Dennison Corp. and Ocean Recovery Alliance, founders of Plasticity Forum, aim to collaborate across the industry to discover, connect and facilitate solutions to create innovative prevention programs for plastic pollution.

The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, and The Recycling Partnership have launched All In On Recycling, the largest ever industry-wide residential recycling challenge to make recycling easier for families.

Three industry trends are providing incentives for innovation, and creating new opportunities and threats for players in the global protective transit packaging business.

The Plastics Recycling Europe and The Association of Plastic Recyclers have developed a global definition governing the use of the term “recyclable” as it relates to plastics packaging and products, in hopes to provide a consistent metric to guide the efforts of sustainability for plastics in the Circular Economy.