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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,...

Federal Maritime Commissioner Rebecca F. Dye will issue information demand orders regarding ocean carriers’ and marine terminal operators’ (MTOs) detention and demurrage practices, the FMC shared on Feb. 17. The orders will also require carriers and MTOs “to provide information on their policies and practices related to container returns and container availability for exporters,” according...

Packaging manufacturer Novolex, based in Hartsville, S.C., will add How2Recycle store drop-off instructions to more of its plastic bags and packaging, the company says. Novolex will add the labels to a number of products from its Shields and Hilex brands, including poly mailers, security bags, plastic T-shirt bags, produce bags, and “tamper-evident” delivery bags. Novolex...

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...

The ISRI2021 Main Stage will reach into the top levels of Fortune-500 boardrooms for a discussion of the U.S. and global economies during and after COVID-19. Gary Cohn, currently vice chairman of IBM, has been a mover and shaker in the worlds of finance and economic policy for many years. Cohn began his career at...