Arizona Center for the Blind Document Destruction of Phoenix; Document Resources, A Division of Underground Vaults & Storage of Louisville, Ky.; Gone For Good Shredding of Little Rock, Ark.; Pena's Disposal of Cutler, Calif.; Puliz Records Management of Reno, Nev.; Record Keepers of Bismarck, N.D.; Royal Document Destruction of Cincinnati and Secure On-Site Shredding of Palm Harbor, Fla. have either...

Minneapolis tries a new approach to tackle single-use plastic bags, and the National Park Service ends its ban on sales of bottled water. Ban reversed: The National Park Service (NPS) will no longer ban the sale of bottled water in disposable plastic bottles on its land, after six years of prohibiting the practice. In a press release, the NPS said...

One global group wants your eclipse glasses for reuse, and a paper recycling plant in Canada is parted out and auctioned off. Hauler hero: A recycling collection truck driver stepped in to halt an assault in the middle of his Youngtown, Ariz. collection route. ABC 15 News reports the employee was driving his truck when he saw a woman on...

Jim Levine, Regency Technologies We're less than a month away from this year's E-Scrap Conference, which will be held in Orlando, Fla. To help get readers jazzed, we're offering Meet the Speakers interviews with a few of the industry leaders set to take the stage. This week, we talk with Jim Levine, owner and CEO of Regency Technologies. Levine will...

Dynamic Recycling undergoes a major expansion in Wisconsin, and Washington state continues to experience reductions in weights collected. Batteryless phone?: Researchers have opened the door to a future cell phone that doesn't need a battery, which could simplify both recycling and use. Reuters reports that experts at the University of Washington in Seattle developed a device that harvests a tiny amount...

China says e-scrap will be impacted in the country's upcoming import restrictions, and Rwanda's government works to build an electronics refurbishing and recycling facility. China: The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) says metals found in e-scrap will be among the materials "limited" for import as part of the country's upcoming ban on imports of certain recovered materials, but has not specified...

American Document Services of Las Cruces, N.M.; Assured Document Destruction of Phoenix; Corodata Shredding of Poway, Calif.; Records Management Center/ShredSafe of Bangor, Maine and River Mill Data Management of Columbus, Ga. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.Visit our archive to view previous editions of the scorecard.  

The 2017 Resource Recycling Conference will kick off in Minneapolis in less than two weeks. To continue to help readers gear up for the event, we're offering another speaker profile. This week we get to know Jules Bailey, chief stewardship officer and director of external relations for the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), the stewardship group that manages Oregon's container...

Yukon territory adds milk jugs and bottles to its deposit program, and the Container Recycling Institute organizes an art installation to raise awareness about marine debris. Deposit on milk: Canada's Yukon territory has placed a deposit on milk containers, according to the Yukon News. Consumers will pay a 10-cent charge for each container, and they'll get 5 cents back when...

Boosting recycling doesn't just yield environmental and economic benefits, it also helps reduce the disproportionate burden of waste disposal on vulnerable populations. That's one message from U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the Democratic representative whose district includes Minneapolis and surrounding cities. Ellison is scheduled to speak at the 2017 Resource Recycling Conference in Minneapolis. Resource Recycling asked Ellison, who has introduced...