New York's City Council voted overwhelmingly to expand the city's organic waste collection program, paving the way for outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to further reshape the city's waste collection services. Passing by a vote of 41-1, the measure, once signed by Bloomberg, will lead to a voluntary residential organic waste collection program that will start within weeks and eventually service...

A three-year-old e-scrap firm in Wisconsin says it is opening its newest plant elsewhere because permit requirements at home have held up its plans for a CRT processing operation. But Wisconsin officials say they never actually halted construction and that the regulatory questions they raised are bound to follow the company regardless of its location. The drama stems from recent...

Automated retail company Outerwall, formerly Coinstar, has announced it will acquire kiosk-based electronic buy-back company ecoATM for $350 million in cash. Outerwall, which owned 23 percent of ecoATM, now takes charge of 100 percent of the San Diego, California, startup. The merger is expected to close in the third quarter of 2013 and will be accretive to EPS in 2014.The...