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Paige Bernacchi, Business Manager, Covanta
The Indiana Recycling Coalition’s Carey Hamilton is right – few things are more frustrating than missed opportunities. What Ms. Hamilton and the IRC fail to realize is the irony in their own rhetoric. Continue Reading
Carey Hamilton
Few things are more frustrating than missed opportunities. And, in that context, few places are more frustrating today than Indianapolis – an otherwise sustainable city – when it comes to recycling. Continue Reading
A ruling will allow the City of Indianapolis to move ahead with controversial plans for a mixed-waste processing facility to recover recyclables.
The City of Indianapolis has been hit with a lawsuit for reworking a city contract and giving the go-ahead to a controversial MRF without seeking alternatives beforehand.
A nonprofit recycling operation in Minnesota has received nearly $10 million from the Closed Loop Fund and other investors.
The number of deaths among refuse and recyclable materials collectors went up last year. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 33 people were killed in 2015.
The How2Recycle label, a project of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), celebrated many milestones in 2016, including a big boost from Walmart.
Aluminum giant Novelis reported that its use of recycled inputs has now crossed the 50 percent mark. Continue Reading
The success of a Staten Island pilot program that allows residents to schedule e-scrap pick-ups for free has New York City officials already considering expanding the service. Free curbside pick-up is rare in the electronics recycling world.
Innovators in the resin realm often get a bad rap for prioritizing functionality over recyclability. But according to one bioplastics executive, end-of-life is still top-of-mind for many companies developing cutting-edge materials.