Resource Management Companies (RMC) wasn’t chomping at the bit to get into the glass beneficiation business. It was more or less forced to by the realities of glass collections and markets.
Resource Management Companies (RMC) wasn’t chomping at the bit to get into the glass beneficiation business. It was more or less forced to by the realities of glass collections and markets.
Scott Pruitt, photo by Gage Skidmore
After several weeks spent considering a handful of candidates, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Waste Management CEO David Steiner (right) speaks with Dylan de Thomas, editorial director at Resource Recycling, Inc., during the 2016 Resource Recycling Conference in New Orleans
Last month, in New Orleans, the CEO of the country’s largest hauler and processor of trash and recyclables gave the keynote address for the seventh annual Resource Recycling Conference. And following that address [see the full text of the address], we had further questions for the executive.
A suburban Ohio county is being pushed to depart from its long-established mixed-waste processing recycling system, after a report indicated the method was producing a recycling rate below 4 percent.
While publicly traded waste and recycling companies had generally positive years in 2014, annual financial reports show falling commodity prices are expected to cause trouble in 2015.
A just-released report from the U.S. EPA indicates the 2013 national recycling rate was 34.3 percent, barely budging from 2012’s rate of 34.5 percent.
The Closed Loop Fund, a recycling-focused investment group founded by nine major corporations, has made its first significant funding announcement.
With paper generation and commodity prices down, the nation’s largest waste and recycling company is finding it hard to make its recycling business make financial sense.
Leaders at four of the country’s largest waste management companies told attendees of last week’s Waste Expo conference America’s curbside recycling system is in need of a dramatic overhaul.
Recycling interests are applauding a bill in Congress that would authorize a grant program to fund waste reduction, recycling and reuse efforts.