This story originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
This story originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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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.
This article originally appeared in the July 2015 edition of Resource Recycling.
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Houston may not ultimately implement its controversial One Bin for All system, a plan that calls for residents to toss garbage and recyclables in a single curbside cart for later sortation.
It’s now up to officials in Houston to decide who will lead the city’s proposed “one bin for all” recycling program.
In Texas, an environmental advocacy group has launched a campaign aimed at derailing the City of Houston’s plans to secure funding for an ambitious project called “One Bin for All,” which would allow residents to put all their discards in one container that will be sorted out at a new multi-million dollar facility.
Houston’s proposal to build a dirty MRF has been selected as one of 20 finalists by Bloomberg Philanthropies in its Mayors Challenge, a competition meant to encourage cities to come up with ideas to solve problems facing urban communities.
Houston will get $1 million from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge, a competition that awards cash prizes to ideas aimed at solving urban problems, to fund its controversial project to recover and process recycling in the city.
Despite fierce opposition, all-in-one-bin recycling and trash collection has overcome its final hurdle in one of the Midwest’s largest cities.
