Lithium-ion batteries pose a fire risk to recycling facilities. | Mehaniq / Shutterstock
The Recycling Partnership is providing communities with resources communicating proper battery recycling, hoping to help reduce fires in trucks and at recycling facilities.
The author makes the case that user incentives must be a part of wider strategies to boost plastics recovery. | Thomas Bethge / Shutterstock
For 2020, SWANA tallied a total of 52 on-the-job waste and recycling industry fatalities. This year the numbers are trending downward. | Somchai_Stock / Shutterstock
Half as many solid waste workers were killed on the job during the first half of this year compared with recent years, according to the Solid Waste Association of North America.
A collaboration will provide over $9 million to boost recycling in Baltimore. | iofoto / Shutterstock
Over 200,000 Baltimore households will receive free recycling carts after corporate, nonprofit and government partners collaborated to provide cash grants and more.
Financial documents show TerraCycle US saw double-digit growth in the company’s Zero Waste Boxes program. | Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock
Coronavirus-related closures hurt financial performance for TerraCycle US last year, but increased profitability in the company’s Zero Waste Boxes business helped buffer the impacts.
Coca-Cola has a goal to use 50% PCR by 2030 in its packaging portfolio. | Dilok Klaisataporn / Shutterstock
A leader at Coca-Cola estimates the beverage giant will approach 20% recycled PET use by the end of 2021.
Nearly 36,700 tons of residential recyclables were collected in D.C. in 2018 through curbside and drop-off efforts. | Imrans Photography / Shutterstock
The District of Columbia increased its residential diversion by over 2 percentage points in 2018, newly released data shows.
Aqua Metals, a lead-acid battery recycling technology company, is moving into the lithium-ion battery recycling business. | showcake/Shutterstock
A battery recycling company goes public, North American collection numbers are released, and a lead-acid battery recycling technology company moves into the lithium-ion realm. Those announcements were made around National Battery Day last Thursday.
The recycling industry has become increasingly consolidated in recent years following major corporate acquisitions. Fernando Cortes / Shutterstock
It may not receive a lot of media attention, but corporate concentration in America’s waste industry negatively impacts the lives of nearly all Americans and contributes to a range of economic and environmental burdens.
