Ratepayers are seeing an increase for garbage and recycling in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city, and an appliance recycling company sees a stark revenue drop.
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Ratepayers are seeing an increase for garbage and recycling in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city, and an appliance recycling company sees a stark revenue drop.
Officials in one Michigan county are calling their new curbside program a success, and a large Canadian city bans plastic bags.
California’s recycling goal is under scrutiny, and a major Canadian city is getting out of the collection business.
A grocery store on a small Canadian island is operating without the use of plastic, and the head of an Oregon charity is lauded for his reuse efforts.
The Virgin Islands get serious about recycling, and Waste Management gets support for its stance on materials diversion.
More and more old tires are being recycled, and lithium ion batteries have caused several fires at a Midwest MRF.
Seattle enacts another plastic bag ban, and a stick-on label could change the look of the aluminum can.
Pratt Industries sets a one-day recycled paper production record, and some Canadian grocery stores take aim at waste by eliminating packaging altogether.
A paper-products maker shifts from newsprint to recycled lightweight linerboard at a Quebec mill, and a hauler serving multi-family housing is caught dumping recyclable materials into the garbage.
An audit report examines the extended producer responsibility program in British Columbia, and textiles recycling comes to the curb in one Texas city.