Take a look at what’s happening on North American college campuses. It’s eye-opening.
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).
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.