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by Waste News | May 6, 2025 | News
Q1 2025 Waste Industry Overview: Growth, Caution, and Consolidation The first quarter of 2025 brought a mixed bag of expansion, earnings resilience, and operational restructuring across North America’s largest waste management companies. While leaders like Waste Management Inc. (WM) and Clean Harbors (CLH) posted strong EBITDA growth, the quarter also highlighted macroeconomic headwinds, mar…
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by Waste News | Mar 16, 2025 | News
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) runs a Recycling Market Development Program that helps fund projects to collect, process and find buyers for recycled materials in the state. The February 2025 funding round At its February 2025 meeting, Indiana’s Recycling Market Development Board reviewed seven applications that together requested about $10 million, against roughly…
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by Waste News | Feb 28, 2025 | News, Pricing Trends
The containerboard industry is facing ongoing price volatility in early 2025 as manufacturers struggle with supply imbalances, shifting demand, and growing frustration over traditional pricing benchmarks. Despite announced price hikes from major producers, price tracking remains inconsistent, raising concerns about how accurately industry indexes reflect real market conditions. Price Adjustments S…
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by Waste News | Feb 3, 2025 | News
When two major players in the packaging industry team up, you know changes are coming. On January 31, 2025, International Paper and DS Smith finalized their merger, creating a new powerhouse in the packaging, containerboard, and pulp industries. Think bigger operations, greater sustainability efforts, and a stronger position in North America and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). What does th…
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by Waste News | Feb 3, 2025 | News
How New Tariffs on Canada and Mexico Will Affect U.S. Plastic Companies Introduction The introduction of new tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico has sent ripples across industries, and the U.S. plastic industry stands at the epicenter of this economic storm. With $74.2 billion in U.S. plastics exports in 2023, according to the Plastics Industry Association, this sector thrives on global trad…
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by Waste News | Jan 20, 2025 | News
America produces an astonishing amount of waste. From overflowing landfills to oceans brimming with plastic, the U.S. remains one of the largest waste generators in the world, generating roughly 12% of the planet’s municipal solid waste with about 4% of the global population, according to a widely cited 2019 estimate by the risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. Yet, when it comes to addressing this…
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