Building a personal brand can be intimidating. Especially during a time when much of our interactions and activities with others are virtual, there’s a push to connect in authentic, meaningful ways. Melissa Pepper, president of Total Solutions and founder of the nonprofit Lead(h)er, recommended to recyclers the following strategies to develop your personal brand during…
ExxonMobil has joined Agilyx Corp., a chemical recycling company based in Tigard, Ore., to become a founding member of Cyclyx International. Launched by Agilyx in January, Cyclyx aims to increase plastic recycling. Cyclyx will aggregate and preprocess collected plastic to prepare it for further recycling, aiming to meet the technical requirements of recycling processes while…
Entries for the 2021 Transportation Safety Awards and the Circle of Safety Excellence™ (COSE) Occupational Awards are now open, ISRI announced on Feb. 18. The Transportation Awards recognize those in the transportation field with a superior record of safety. The COSE Occupational Awards recognize COSE member companies that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to their employees’ safety by instilling core…
Novelis, an aluminum rolling and recycling company based in Atlanta, debuted a new automotive aluminum alloy, Novelis Advanz 7UHS-s701, the company announced on Feb. 17. The company describes this new material as its “strongest automotive aluminum product to date,” according to the release. Novelis designed this ultra-high-strength material for safety-critical structural applications in passenger vehicles,…
Kalamazoo-based Bell’s Brewery is forming a new recycling cooperative to divert about 26,000 pounds of plastics per year from Michigan landfills, the company announced on Feb. 10. Bell’s Brewery and the Kalamazoo Nature Center, which are leading the collaboration, applied for and received a $12,000 Recycling Market Development Grant from the Michigan Department of Environment,…
Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR), an electronics recycler and information technology asset disposition and management (ITAD/ITAM) company, will open a new facility in Allentown, Penn., the company announced Feb. 1. At 30,000 square feet, the Allentown site will be one of the company’s largest R2-certified facilities. Founded in 2002, ATR is a certified woman-owned business that…
Heritage Battery Recycling (HBR), a new division of the Heritage Group and its subsidiary, Heritage Environmental Services (Heritage), is collaborating with Romeo Power, an energy technology company, to develop a battery reuse and recycling facility in the southwestern U.S. Heritage, which provides environmental and sustainability services, launched HBR in late 2020 to address the growing…
In January, recycling equipment manufacturer CASE Construction Equipment and Texas-based dealer Nueces Power Equipment threw their support behind an effort to help those still affected by Hurricane Harvey. The two companies provided supplies and support to Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster response organization, which conducted a two-week relief operation in Victoria County, Texas. Team Rubicon…
On Feb. 4, aluminum-maker Constellium announced that the company is in the final planning stages of an investment to increase its recycling capacity in Europe. Headquartered in Paris, Constellium designs and develops aluminum products for a variety of markets, including packaging, automotive, and aerospace. This project will be focused on using recycled aluminum to produce…
On Jan. 27, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change published a notice in the National Gazette that imports of postindustrial and/or preconsumer polyethylene would be permitted into Export-Oriented Units and Special Economic Zones. According to the notice, imports are permitted for 18 months with a requirement of at least 50% exports in terms…
On Feb. 4, the nonprofit organization Mattress Recycling Council, California (MRC) released a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking vendors to process pocketed coils. Formed by the mattress industry, MRC operates California’s mattress recycling program. Of the 1.5 million mattresses and box springs MRC recycles each year in California, pocketed coils are removed from about 300,000…
On Jan. 25, six U.S. senators took the issue of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging to some of the largest e-commerce companies in America. Sens. Rick J. Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Richard Blumental (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Home Depot, Target, Wayfair, Best…