Former employees of the U.S. EPA have attacked Donald Trump’s funding proposals and unearthed documents showing the administration wants to chop the agency’s recycling and waste reduction efforts by 20 percent.
Former employees of the U.S. EPA have attacked Donald Trump’s funding proposals and unearthed documents showing the administration wants to chop the agency’s recycling and waste reduction efforts by 20 percent.
A meeting of the International Council of Containership Operators got raided last week, sending tremors throughout the ocean shipping industry.
After he spent a good chunk of his campaign blasting the Environmental Protection Agency, it was hardly surprising that Donald Trump would take a knife to the EPA budget once he was actually in office. Continue Reading
Scott Pruitt, photo by Gage Skidmore
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is the new leader of the U.S. EPA. Continue Reading
National politics have taken the spotlight over the past few months, but impactful decisions are being made at the state level as legislatures convene.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Ohio-based ECM Biofilms was wrong in the past for claiming its additives promote complete degradation and will be wrong again unless the company proves otherwise. Continue Reading
This story originally appeared in the January 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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Germany continues to post the highest recycling rate in Europe, and a few other countries experienced surges in their rates.
Nebraska awards nearly $2.5 million for recycling, outreach and litter cleanup projects, and applications are now being accepted for public bins for parks. Continue Reading
Carton recycling is now available for 60 percent of U.S. households, meaning the packaging can begin carrying the “chasing arrows” symbol and “please recycle” text.