Nearly 40% of surveyed CFOs and CEOs said that sustainability initiatives would be the first cut in tight financial times. | Jirapong Manustrong/Shutterstock
A survey of CEOs and chief financial officers suggested that when businesses are considering cuts amid current economic headwinds, sustainability initiatives are among the first to go.
A leader with Texas Disposal Systems offers insight into the firm’s communications strategies. | Ground Picture/Shutterstock
August has brought increasingly gloomy recyclables markets, with major drops in the pricing of PET, mixed paper, color HDPE and polypropylene.
Fort Smith, Ark.’s department of sanitation must pay $745,057 to the residents it misled. | Zolnierek/Shutterstock
An Arkansas judge ruled that a city sanitation department needed to pay restitution after landfilling material that should have been recycled and admonished the city for breaking the trust of its residents.
Proposed regulations in Canada would limit the use of the chasing-arrows symbol among other provisions. | Alexander Sviridov/Shutterstock
The Canadian government will develop rules for recyclability and compostability labeling and establish a federal plastics registry for producers of plastic products.
A Michigan carton recycling collaboration was of interest to readers last month. | Courtesy of Great Lakes Tissue
Last month, our readers were hungry to learn about a paper mill’s efforts to clean up its residuals to enable future materials recovery, among other news.
Washington, D.C. has been honored as a 2022 Recycling Program of the Year award winner. | Courtesy of the city of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. and Fayetteville, Ark. have been named the 2022 Program of the Year winners by Resource Recycling.