Megan Workman

The author is associate editor of Recycling Today magazine.

The perplexing pace of policy changes

The recovered paper sector continues to respond to regulatory changes with little or no warning from China and countries in Southeast Asia.

The changing dynamic

ISRI’s Adina Renee Adler says exports to China will shift from shipments of scrap to commodities that were processed from scrap.

Part of the evolution

The Litman brothers opened their recycling company in Dallas in 1992 and found moving into the secure destruction sector a natural progression.

Curbing confusion and contamination

RecycleCT Foundation Inc.’s public recycling outreach campaign throughout Connecticut shows how working together can improve recycling rates.

WasteExpo 2018: Innovation without consideration

Consumer products companies should consider the recyclability of their packaging prior to making any changes.

WasteExpo 2018: Rise of the robots

Robots and artificial intelligence have made their way into MRFs, helping operators to create cleaner streams of recyclables.

ISRI2018: Staying ahead of China

Recovered paper imports into China are down, but an increase in buying from the “Asia-6” has helped to pick up some slack.

Growth from within

Sonoco Recycling has grown from an internal solution for a packaging producer to one of the largest recyclers in North America.

Keeping pace with e-scrap

In business for more than a century, Oscar Winski Co. has grown its electronics recycling division by staying in tune with the changing sector.

A timely retrofit

Penn Waste’s $3.5 million retrofit was commissioned as China rolled out its stringent scrap import specifications, allowing the MRF time to adjust.