In Texas, an environmental advocacy group has launched a campaign aimed at derailing the City of Houston’s plans to secure funding for an ambitious project called “One Bin for All,” which would allow residents to put all their discards in one container that will be sorted out at a new multi-million dollar facility.
Houston’s proposal to build a dirty MRF has been selected as one of 20 finalists by Bloomberg Philanthropies in its Mayors Challenge, a competition meant to encourage cities to come up with ideas to solve problems facing urban communities.
Houston will get $1 million from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge, a competition that awards cash prizes to ideas aimed at solving urban problems, to fund its controversial project to recover and process recycling in the city.
A newly formed group of recycling organizations and stakeholders is weighing in on the effects of mixed waste processing on recycling.
Municipal leaders from across the country are curious about how the future will unfold for a trash-sorting materials recovery facility in Montgomery, Alabama.
Indianapolis may be the next American city to usher in a garbage-sorting MRF, though a number of recycling companies and groups are hoping to push the municipality in a different diversion direction.
Montgomery, Alabama has plans to bring back curbside recycling. As part of the plan, it’s also working on a new $32 million materials recovery facility to be built by Florida-based Imperium Energy.
Recycling interests are applauding a bill in Congress that would authorize a grant program to fund waste reduction, recycling and reuse efforts.
After announcing the Steve Thompson Memorial Grant, organizers received over 200 applications. Ultimately, only nine individuals were selected for the all-expenses-paid trip to the Resource Recycling Conference, held two weeks ago in New Orleans.
Massachusetts provides seven grants to recycling businesses to help boost volumes and quality, and North Carolina accepts applications for its own business development grant program.