In a blockbuster announcement yesterday, Waste Management has purchased Greenstar Recycling, the owner of a dozen materials recycling facilities (MRFs) in seven states. With the buyout solidifying Waste Management’s position as America’s largest processor of residential and commercial recyclables, Resource Recycling followed up with Bill Caesar, president of Waste Management Recycle America, to learn more.
Vermont regulators have chosen Call2Recycle to manage the nation’s first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries.
Representing a dozen battery manufacturers, battery stewardship organization Call2Recycle will submit to Vermont regulators a plan for the collection and recycling of single-use batteries.
The North American product stewardship group Call2Recycle collected a program-best 12.6 million pounds of batteries in 2015, a 5 percent increase over previous-year figures.
Year-over-year expenditures for California’s Beverage Container Recycling Fund exceed revenues by approximately $100 million, according to data presented at a recent Container Recycling Institute webinar.
A recent national study points to a growing consumer expectation that manufacturers act as a central cog in pushing for the recycling of product packaging.
Hundreds of restaurant owners in New York City are mobilizing to try to block Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging.
Despite facing a torrent of criticism, officials in British Columbia say they are on track to transform the Canadian province’s recycling system into one led and funded by producers.
In a press release sent out this morning, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett announced that plans for the proposed Covanta mixed-waste materials recovery facility have been temporarily suspended.
Waste Management has fired five managers and launched an in-depth audit after discovering company drivers brought recyclable materials from several North Texas cities to a landfill. Continue Reading