Governor Tom Wolf announced a $509,000 Rail Freight Assistance Program (RFAP) grant yesterday to International Recycling Group (IRG), a local company committed to tackling the global plastic waste crisis.

The Pennsylvania Department of Energy (DoE) recently released a new report showing the potential value of landfilled plastic waste from energy savings resulting from more investment in recycling. The DoE calculated that the total energy embedded in plastics put into landfills year in and year out is equal to 12% of the energy used by America’s entire industrial base — an enormous potential energy savings by replacing the production of new plastic with recycled plastic.

tackling the plastic waste crisis by launching a recycling revolution in Erie, along with its sister company newBin, hosted its 2nd annual Earth Day clean up teaming up with the Erie Seawolves and Wm. T. Spaeder Company, kicking off at the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home. The volunteer-driven lower East Side neighborhood cleanup, started with a visit to the residents of the Soldiers and Sailors Home.

ERIE, PA (March 14, 2022) – International Recycling Group (IRG) finalized the purchase of 25.48 acres of the former Hammermill Paper site from SB3, LLC. The company announced today that the property, located at 1565 E. Lake Road, is now officially the home of what will become the country’s largest plastics recycling plant.

On Tuesday, County Council passed a resolution to encourage recycling and continual assessment of existing curbside collection of recyclables. County Council resolved to study the efficiency and effectiveness of current municipal waste contracts.

ERIE, PA (June 25, 2021) – International Recycling Group (IRG) recently helped launch The U.S. Plastics Pact's (“U.S. Pact”) “Roadmap to 2025,” an aggressive national strategy illustrating how the U.S. Pact, IRG and fellow signatories, known as Activators, will achieve each of the U.S. Pact’s four 2025 targets through specific actions, responsibilities, and interim timeframes to realize a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025.