Florida has enacted a law intended to clamp down on metal thieves and brokers who do business with them.
Florida has enacted a law intended to clamp down on metal thieves and brokers who do business with them.
A top Walmart executive says the $100 million recycling fund spearheaded by the retail giant will provide significant financial backing to municipal initiatives, and he said communities have moved quickly to see if they can nab a piece of the pie.
In the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence may see and control all that’s happening in a recycling facility. But first, it’s going to do some work on a quality control line.
Minnesota is on track to improve the accuracy of its annual recycling and waste management data reporting, so its recent annual report covers a “transition year” for information on waste management activities.
Forty-one states are awarded grants for recycling bins in public parks, and a Southwest state begins accepting applications for its $800,000 grant program.
An Ohio waste exchange program has been updated from a simple bulletin board system into an interactive marketplace model, which will calculate and report the environmental impact of each transaction.
An equipment upgrade at a Sherbrooke, Quebec materials recovery facility boosted the facility’s capacity from 14 tons per hour to 18 tons per hour and resulted in improved bale quality.
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.
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