This year’s Resource Recycling Conference is providing much-needed insight on a range of critical recycling issues. And on the event’s first day, the National Recycling Coalition named its new executive director.
This year’s Resource Recycling Conference is providing much-needed insight on a range of critical recycling issues. And on the event’s first day, the National Recycling Coalition named its new executive director.
We’ve got a little over a week until the 2018 Resource Recycling Conference kicks off in St. Louis. To preview the event, we’re offering a series of profiles of different recycling stakeholders who will be offering expert perspective from the stage.
In the runup to the 2019 Resource Recycling Conference and Trade Show in New Orleans, we’re offering Q&As with a few of the industry leaders who will be taking the stage.
The City of San Antonio began accepting plastic bags in curbside single-stream carts two years ago. In its first year, 550 tons were recovered through the program, but that number fell by more than two-thirds in the second year.
Not surprisingly, the great glass debate is continuing into 2017. Four municipalities from different corners of the country recently made moves or began discussions to try to recover glass in a more cost-effective manner.
This story originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of Resource Recycling.
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The grant funds come as Dallas this month rolled out a multi-family recycling ordinance. | Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
A coalition of industry stakeholders will put over $900,000 toward municipal program improvements in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and will invest $2 million in an area MRF.
New York City businesses achieve a waste-reduction goal, and two popular beverage companies make changes to the materials they use for packaging.
Wyoming is renowned for its cowpokes, but the results from a recent aluminum recycling competition show students in the state also excel in another type of roundup.
A variety of businesses in Oregon were recently awarded grants to boost materials recovery. | bleakstar/Shutterstock
An Oregon agency has awarded $5.6 million in grants to bolster recycling and composting infrastructure serving the Portland area.