The world’s top selling brand of Scotch whiskey will be available in a recyclable paper bottle beginning next year, announced Diageo PLC, makers of Johnnie Walker. Diageo, which also owns… Thank you for checking us…
By Ken McEntee Perhaps the dumbest idea of the year that wasn’t initiated by a professional politician, DS Smith is looking to sell cardboard people to Major League Baseball and other professional sports leagues to…
Citing “unprecedented market decline” related to the government’s Covid-19 shut-downs, Verso Corp. said it is indefinitely closing its printing and writing paper mills in Duluth, Minn. and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. The company said it will…
U.S. packaging papers and specialty packaging shipments in April increased 5 percent compared to April 2019, the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) reported. Packaging papers and specialty packaging shipments… Thank you for checking us…
Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) said it plans to temporarily idle both paper machines and the sheet-converting operation at its Boise Paper mill in Jackson, Ala for the months of… Thank you for checking us…
Plastic Wars, a Frontline report about the problem of recycling plastic waste, is misleading, said Tony Radoszewski, president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association (Plastics). Frontline, a production of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)…
In the years since the plastics industry mounted a recycling push, it’s estimated that no more than 10 percent of plastic produced has ever actually been recycled, according to Frontline, from the Public Broadcasting Service….
By Ken McEntee On at least three occasions, employees of document destruction/information management companies displayed letters from i-SIGMA to police officers during traffic stops for being on the street in a state where non-essential businesses…
By Ken McEntee In response to a letter to Vice President Mike Pence last week from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), as well as to similar letters from… Thank you for checking us…
Revising our earlier report about the fire at International Paper’s containerboard mill in Rome, Ga., it has subsequently been reported that a recovery boiler at the company’s 830,000 ton-per-year Bogalusa… Thank you for checking us…
