This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Within the municipal recycling sector, much discussion has been devoted to how the COVID-19 fallout is being felt in collection and processing. Stay-at-home orders have shifted tonnages from the commercial sector to the residential realm, and operators have implemented social distancing to...

This article originally appeared in the October 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   For many recycling operators today, the discussion of business viability begins and ends with one material: paper. "Paper moves the price of whatever the processor can pay or needs to charge the municipality,” Dave Claugus, vice president of Pacific Northwest...

After he spent a good chunk of his campaign blasting the Environmental Protection Agency, it was hardly surprising that Donald Trump would take a knife to the EPA budget once he was actually in office. But the Trump administration’s proposed 31 percent slash last week has nevertheless raised eyebrows everywhere, including the recycling industry. Under President Trump’s budget blueprint, the...

After he spent a good chunk of his campaign blasting the Environmental Protection Agency, it was hardly surprising that Donald Trump would take a knife to the EPA budget once he was actually in office. But the Trump administration’s proposed 31 percent slash last week has nevertheless raised eyebrows everywhere, including the recycling industry. Under President Trump’s budget blueprint, the...

After he spent a good chunk of his campaign blasting the Environmental Protection Agency, it was hardly surprising that Donald Trump would take a knife to the EPA budget once he was actually in office. But the Trump administration's proposed 31 percent slash last week has nevertheless raised eyebrows everywhere, including the recycling industry. Under President Trump's budget blueprint, the...