BridgeHarbor opens its trading platform to thirty founding broker desks
A platform aimed at brokers who never physically handle the material, built around one record per load and an assistant that drafts but does not send.
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Contamination is repricing MRF contracts faster than municipalities can renegotiate
Processing terms are moving from residue-share arrangements to hard per-tonne charges, pushing inbound quality risk back onto collection programmes mid-contract.
Personnel moves: appointments across plastics, fibre and e-scrap
Leadership changes at four processors, including a new chief operating officer at a Midwest reclaimer and a commercial head appointed to build out an e-scrap trading desk.
Battery fires are a design problem, not a housekeeping problem
Yards that have cut incident counts did it with infeed geometry, thermal detection and paid drop-off programmes — not with more signage and more toolbox talks.
Recycled-content mandates are arriving faster than the verification to police them
Compliance deadlines in three jurisdictions land within eighteen months, but processors and brands say chain-of-custody documentation for post-consumer resin remains inconsistent and largely unaudited.
Black mass capacity is outrunning the batteries available to feed it
Announced lithium-ion pre-processing capacity now exceeds plausible North American end-of-life battery volumes for several years, leaving shredders competing for production scrap.
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