April 30, 2025
| This week’s recycling news and insights for industry leaders
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
AI robotics company Glacier recently announced it raised $16 million in funding to expand its presence and advance its tech for MRFs. For today’s story, I talked with Glacier CEO and co-founder Rebecca Hu-Thrams about how MRFs are integrating data-informed sorting technology to keep up with policy pressures as well as business demands like higher quality thresholds.
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Megan Quinn
Senior Reporter, Waste Dive
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Glacier recently installed its technology at Recology's Seattle MRF. The company aims to expand its presence in major U.S. markets as MRFs continue to face operational, policy and economic pressures.
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Companies have upped recycled plastic in packaging the last few years. But CPGs still face considerable uncertainty about how recycled materials and related technologies could be regulated going forward.
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CEO Mark Armen says the company has recently helped expand glass recycling supply chains in California. The company also announced new Chief Operating Officer Andrew Langtry.
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The new MRF, which can handle 250,000 tons per year, now has the largest capacity of all WM’s recycling centers. That capacity is necessary to serve major cities such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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