The City of Columbus, Ohio will pay 50 percent more for recycling and yard debris collection over the next five years, under the terms of a contract approved this week.
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The City of Columbus, Ohio will pay 50 percent more for recycling and yard debris collection over the next five years, under the terms of a contract approved this week.
Plastics recycling stakeholders, it’s time to elevate your game. That was the message delivered in a variety of different ways from industry leaders in New Orleans last week.
A college student has developed software allowing residents of a Florida community to verbally ask Amazon’s Alexa voice system whether an item is locally accepted for recycling.
China’s recent crackdown on scrap material imports has exposed smuggling operations, led to dozens of arrests and resulted in the confiscation of more than 22,000 tons of material.
In a departure from the beverage giant’s long-standing position, Coca-Cola has announced its support for a container deposit program in the United Kingdom.
Higher commodity values helped lift recycling-related revenues for the third-largest hauler in North America.
A retrofitted facility outside Toronto will begin by targeting single-stream recyclables from multi-family residences but could evolve into a full-scale mixed waste operation in the future.
Machinex has installed two sortation lines at a facility in the U.K.: one taking in single-stream-collected materials and the other separating recyclables from trash.
Washington’s recycling rate fell slightly in 2013, marking the fourth consecutive year of flat annual figures for the Evergreen State.
Scott Pruitt, photo by Gage Skidmore
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is the new leader of the U.S. EPA. Continue Reading