U.S. Cities and States, Facing Avalanche of Recyclables, Look at VC-Backed Tech firms for Upcycling Help

That empty plastic bottle you threw in the recycling bin used to be in for a trip to another hemisphere. That changed in 2017, when China stopped accepting U.S. waste, disrupting the way the global recycling market has functioned for the last 30 years.  China, which had been the U.S.’s main buyer, purchased 14.5 million […]