October 12, 2025 | 9:55 AM
tag | recycling
Updated: October 25, 2023 | 1:16 pm
Plastic recycler plans to move ahead with Pa. plant after withdrawing key permit application
Texas-based Encina plans to build a plant on the Susquehanna River in Point Township, Northumberland County.
January 10, 2023 | 4:20 PM
Chester County parents lose thousands on daughter’s cancelled wedding and donate venue to local non-profit
Wedding venues often come with unbinding contracts, that lead to families losing thousands of dollars if their event falls through. Jaime and Michael Helbein, Chester County parents, joined us on The Spark Tuesday to tell us about their experience of paying for their daughters’ wedding venue reservation that eventually needed to be cancelled when the wedding was called off. To turn a negative situation into a positive one, the Helbein’s gave their wedding venue reservation to a local non-profit, Art of Recycle, for a good cause.
October 25, 2022 | 5:27 AM
Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse
A report cites separate data published this May which revealed that the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%.
June 7, 2022 | 3:48 PM
Pa.’s 30-year-old recycling policy needs to be updated, experts say
It has been more than 30 years since Pennsylvania has updated its recycling goals,
September 11, 2020 | 7:58 AM
How big oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled
"There is serious doubt that [recycling plastic] can ever be made viable on an economic basis," one industry insider wrote in a 1974 speech.
September 28, 2019 | 6:26 AM
Pottstown 1st in nation to pilot flexible plastic recycling
September 8, 2019 | 8:07 PM
Are you recycling properly?
Too many contaminants still going into recycling bins
