This article appeared in the February 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   In June 2017, the Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) and the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) entered into a Joint Strategic Action Plan to strengthen their collaboration and to seek opportunities for materials recovery advancement. NEWMOA and NERC have extensive expertise and...

This article originally appeared in the November 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Recycling infrastructure has always been a piece by piece endeavor, with municipalities, states, private companies, regional bodies, nonprofit groups and other actors all potentially involved in handling the same stream of material. It’s not surprising then that as the waste diversion...