by jondabach | Jan 6, 2020 | Recycling
In the current financial, political, and social climate, the debate over the form of our economic system and its potential influence spans beyond economics. It has permeated nearly every sphere of human life including recycling, sustainability, and the state of the...
by jondabach | Dec 2, 2019 | News Brief, Recycling
Plastics recycling (or lack thereof) has received a lot of media attention over the past few years, especially since the enactment of the Chinese National Sword Policy in 2018. So many single-use products are made of plastics, including grocery store bags, restaurant...
by jondabach | Nov 25, 2019 | Market Conditions, Recycling
For nearly three decades, the U.S. has been shipping their recyclables to China. It was a mutually beneficial relationship born from the U.S.’s overproduction of single use plastics and China’s need for raw materials. But this relationship became a toxic one when...
by jondabach | Nov 4, 2019 | Market Conditions, Recycling
While the prices for recycled commodities remain low, it’s clear that the recycling industry will persist—even in times when the consumer economy may be in recession. There has been a growing pessimism in the wake of the Chinese National Sword Policy over the economic...
by jondabach | Oct 28, 2019 | Market Conditions, Recycling
For generations like Millennials and Gen-Z, single-stream recycling may be so routine that it’s impossible to imagine an alternative. But in the long lifespan of recycling, single-stream is still very new to the game. Single-stream recycling was implemented in the...
by jondabach | Oct 7, 2019 | News Brief, Recycling, Shipping and Logistics
There is no short-term solution to the issues that are plaguing the recycling industry. Educating consumers on what they can recycle and how, building and updating domestic recycling facilities, and hiring and training more staff could take years, decades, or even...
