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Part 3: Leveraging Correctional Labor to Remove Contaminants and Improve the Value of Domestic Recyclables

With the “close” of China to waste imports, iSustain saw the need to develop a sorting program in the United States. China offers a ready workforce of low-cost labor to sort recyclables but, with the country’s waste import ban, scrap materials can ...

Part 2: iSustain Addressing the Challenges of Multi-material Flexible Film Packaging

Photo caption: This is what the scrap looks like as we receive it in roll, slab, and trim form. Manufacturers of the printed film generate a certain level of scrap as they print and covert the material for their end customer. Multi-material Flexibl...

Creative Recycling For A Changing World: Part 1 – The Changing Landscape of Recycling

China has Changed the Plastic Recycling Landscape Since 2013, China has continually cracked down on the quality of the plastic scrap they import  through the use of import bans like Green Fence and National Sword. As the largest cons...

Why Your Company Needs To Think About Document Destruction

A lot of companies develop their own privacy policy, typically described in their Company handbook. They could also examine this with their workers from time to time -and also do routine training to affirm the need to keep their confidential inform...

How Recycling Scrap Metal Can Benefit Your Business?

Whether you own a building company, a dining establishment or anything in between, you probably create more scrap metal than you realize. While a great deal of business owners simply throw away their extra scrap metal, there is actually a better us...