Food makes up the single largest waste stream in Illinois — 20% of the 19 million tons of waste we send to the landfill each year — but just 50 communities had access to food scrap collection through ...

Epidemic-related and political restrictions in scrap supply have helped demonstrate the value of secondary commodities. Scrap’s value to the global supply chain is noticed when it becomes scarcer.

Consulting firm says U.S. could be on track for rPET demand to outpace supply by a multiple of three. Consumers of recycled PET in the U.S. needed about 755 tons of the material in 2020, but that ...