Hefty ReNew^™ Press

How a New Program will Keep Hard-to-Recycle Items Out of Landfills (9/19/23)
Hard-to-Recycle Items Transforming into Lumber at Omaha Facility (3/27/23)
New Project in Greater Boise Turns Hard-to-Recycle Plastics into Community Infrastructure (2/16/22)
Hefty ^®EnergyBag Program Expands Hard-to-Recycle Plastics Collection Option in the Greater Atlanta Area (8/2/21)
Hefty^® Diverts One Million Pounds of Hard-to-Recycle Plastics from Landfills (3/5/2020)
Dow to Help Lead $1 Billion Global Alliance to End Plastic Waste in the Environment (1/16/19)

Recycling Today: A PRF-ect solution? First Star Recycling is creating a circular business model by processing hard-to-recycle plastics and turning them into feedstock for plastic lumber in-house (11/20/2023)
KMTV: Omaha recycling company suggests recycling Halloween candy wrappers (11/1/2023)
Cincinnati Magazine: Rumpke customers can soon recycle more items at the curb (10/31/2023)
City of Covington: New program targets hard-to-recycle plastics (10/26/2023)
Cincinnati.com: Where is the railroad, UC's Satterfield's future, today's top stories | Daily Briefing (10/24/2023)
WDTN-TV: Residents in Butler, Warren counties get unique recycling program (10/24/2023)
Recycling Today: Rumpke bringing Hefty ReNew program to greater Cincinnati area (10/24/2023)
Recycling Monster: Rumpke Expanded Acceptable Items for Curbside Recycling (10/24/2023)
Cincinnati Business Courier: Cincinnati's Rumpke Waste & Recycling increasing the number of plastics it can recycle (10/24/2023)
WasteAdvantage: Rumpke and the Hefty® Brand Offer New Recycling Program for Hard-To-Recycle Plastics Starting in November (10/24/2023)
Cincinnati.com: Rumpke changing how it collects recycling next month. Here's what you need to know. (10/24/2023)
WLWT-TV: Rumpke, Hefty ReNew announce recycling expansion program (10/24/2023)
WKRC-TV: Rumpke and Hefty offer new program to help recycle difficult plastics (10/23/2023)
Register Publications: Rumpke program picks up hard-to-recycle items (10/23/2023)
Resource Recycling: News from California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), Glacier and more (10/23/2023)
Waste 360: Rumpke Joins Hefty ReNew Program, Expands Curbside Recycling Collection (10/23/2023)
WVXU-FM: Rumpke is expanding what can go in your curbside recycling (10/23/2023)
Plastics Recycling Update: Nebraska Plastic-to-Lumber Operation Comes On-line (4/4/2023)
Packaging Insights: Dow, WestRock and Nexus establish circular economy for hard-to-recycle plastics in US Hefty EnergyBag Program (3/3/2021)
Plastics Recycling Update: How a pyrolysis firm handles EnergyBag plastics (1/27/21)
Plastics Recycling Update: Dow looks to double reach of EnergyBag effort (4/24/19)
Forbes: Earth Day Spotlight: Interview with the Founder and CEO of Happy Family Organics (4/22/19)
KETV Omaha: Local recycling facility shows what happens when recycling is picked up from street curbs (4/22/19)
Plastics Today: Dow, Keep America Beautiful launch fourth Hefty EnergyBag grant program (4/18/19)

2022 Reports

Hefty ReNew^™ Program Environmental Impact

An independent life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted in 2020 and 2022 to help understand the environmental impacts of the Hefty ReNew^™ program.

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Lifecycle of the ReNew program show, from collection of hard-to-recycle plastics to adding them to recycling drop off to sorting them at the recycling facility and finally them being processed into valued resources

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