Monthly Archives: June 2019
Not much light at end of mixed-paper tunnel
North America’s residential mixed-paper prices are deep in the negative numbers in some areas. That pain will likely persist for some time, one analyst predicts. “It’s going to be many years before we get back to a decent market, a robust market,” said Bill Moore of fiber recycling consulting and research firm Moore and Associates. […]
India’s trash mountains are a fetid symbol of the country’s plastic problem
New Delhi (CNN)Ravidas in New Delhi is a slum like no other. Its alleys are spotless, its drains regularly washed down with water and its houses painted in bright crayon colors and decorated with plants. There are no fetid open sewers brimming with human waste. Piles of trash do not line every alley. The residents […]