Construction progress on Waste Management’s Alameda County facility as of February 2017. Photo credit: CalRecycle
An organics-focused operation in California estimated to cost more than $120 million will extract recoverable material from municipal solid waste. But it’s not aimed at replacing curbside recycling and compost collection.
Over the past three years, nonprofit group The Recycling Partnership has helped deploy 400,000 recycling carts to communities across the U.S.
Together, they provide museum tours, child health and education centers and adult financial literacy classes. Continue Reading
This story originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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Trina Matta, Sustainable Packaging Coalition
How can recycling players be sure their material choices aren’t damaging other links in the recovery chain? One industry collaboration has developed a resource to help.
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition and The Recycling Partnership are coming together to study the U.S. recycling system.
Former employees of the U.S. EPA have attacked Donald Trump’s funding proposals and unearthed documents showing the administration wants to chop the agency’s recycling and waste reduction efforts by 20 percent.
After he spent a good chunk of his campaign blasting the Environmental Protection Agency, it was hardly surprising that Donald Trump would take a knife to the EPA budget once he was actually in office. Continue Reading
Using an advanced visioning system and deep-learning capabilities, a robot is now picking an average of one carton a second off a container line at a Denver-area MRF. It may be an early look at the future of materials processing.
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.