"Even with many plants in the region, MRFs should have proper equipment to separate and clean up the glass, but many do not," says Glass Packaging Institute President Scott Defife. He recently spoke with Waste360 about the challenges unique to...

HOUSTON -- North America's largest glass recycler, Strategic Materials, Inc. (SMI), today announced the appointment of Paul Garris as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Garris succeeds Mike Hajost after his tenure of three...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio  – O-I Glass, Inc. (“O-I Glass” or “O-I”) has received two significant acknowledgments for its continued Sustainability transformation. EcoVadis upgraded O-I’s rating to Silver (2021: Bronze), and Sustainalytics awarded O-I with...

The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) has released its Glass Minimum Post-Consumer Recycled Content Model Legislation...

Arlington, VA  – The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) today released a statement in opposition to provisions related to post-consumer recycled content requirements for glass in the "Recycled Content Bill" (NJ S.2515/A.4676). GPI President Scott...

Glass bottle and jar manufacturer O-I Glass has a fairly new program to recover more cullet for its operations, but the initiative is designed to have other payoffs. Branded as Glass4Good, the program helps communities more easily and cheaply deal...

HOUSTON -- North America's largest glass recycler, Strategic Materials, Inc. (SMI), today announced Sherry D. Williams has been named chief compliance officer (CCO). Williams will oversee the company's corporate compliance and enterprise risk...

Knoxville, TN-based Carbon Rivers has completed a grant project with the Department of Energy (DOE) where it upcycled 100 tons of turbine blades in a year and a half. Now it’s moving to commercial scale to prove its technology at 20 tons a day...

Connecticut's Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority (HRRA) has implemented a new recycling program to separate glass from its current mixed, single-stream disposal system...