North America’s two largest garbage and recycling companies say recovered materials values increased during the second quarter, giving them revenue boosts.
North America’s two largest garbage and recycling companies say recovered materials values increased during the second quarter, giving them revenue boosts.
Food processors, farms and municipalities all have felt pressures to send less organic material to landfills. They could eventually get help from a startup in California that is turning organics into biodegradable plastic.
Legislative reform on waste diversion in Ontario has been a long time coming. Continue Reading
Take a look at what’s happening on North American college campuses. It’s eye-opening.
Leaders in Canada’s largest city have approved a goal of diverting 70 percent of residential materials from landfill by 2026.
How do you generate ridiculous amounts of enthusiasm about waste diversion? Here’s one overlooked answer: photography.
This week crowds of people in the municipal recycling and solid waste industry are in Indianapolis for Wastecon, a conference produced by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA).
The 2016 Resource Recycling Conference took a direct look at some of the toughest issues facing recycling, but sector leaders also made it clear that by working together, materials diversion can remain vibrant.
A report from The Recycling Partnership and U.S. EPA lays bare the reality there is no silver bullet for creating a stellar curbside recycling program. That being said, researchers did paint a detailed portrait of what successful programs look like.
Cody Marshall, The Recycling Partnership
The State of Curbside Recycling Report offered one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of the factors affecting municipal collection. The lead researcher for the study discusses some of the statistics and surprises (see related story).