WM projects up to $29B revenue in 2027, driven by recycling and RNG

Executives announced new long-term earnings targets across its business segments and offered updates on plans for healthcare waste, employee retention and landfill capacity.

Maine Gov. Mills alters packaging EPR law, to industry’s relief

With LD 1423, groups wanted to bring Maine’s first-in-the-nation packaging EPR law from 2021 into closer alignment with more recent versions of EPR legislation in other states.

WM’s upgraded Wisconsin MRF aims to capture more types of plastic packaging

Part of the $39 million investment went toward a film mitigation system, which reduces contamination in other streams. WM also is in the early stages of selling this captured material as a commodity. 

PureCycle plans to add 1B pounds of capacity by 2030

The recycled resin producer received $300 million in series B capital to build facilities in Thailand and Belgium as part of a larger plan. It will continue building its facility in Augusta, Georgia.

US senators call on EPA to study reuse, refill

Recycling policy advocates Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., are teaming up again, this time on the Reuse Act, to assess opportunities in consumer packaging, food service and more.

Maryland approves air permit for advanced recycling facility despite public opposition.

Recycle Right initiative in Akron, Ohio, will check recycling carts for contamination.

Illinois advances foam ban legislation, progresses on EPR study.

Atlanta city audit shows high recycling contamination, particularly in multifamily buildings.