A group that uses corporate money to lift materials recovery has awarded a total of $350,000 to eight projects aimed at keeping organics out of the waste stream.
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A group that uses corporate money to lift materials recovery has awarded a total of $350,000 to eight projects aimed at keeping organics out of the waste stream.
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Around 100,000 chopsticks are discarded in Vancouver, British Columbia every day, and that fact has led to a unique line of recycled products.
A reporter tests the expiration dates stamped on food, and a curbside recycling contract dispute gets dirty.
Some California beverage redemption centers report more difficulties, and we look at the presidential candidates’ recycling bon mots and bonafides.
Chicago wants to better educate residents of a neighborhood posting a 6 percent diversion rate, and two reports calls on Michigan lawmakers to take steps to boost recycling.
A legal petition filed last week claims a mixed-waste processing facility being built by Waste Management in California could harm source-separation efforts.
Materials recovery facilities have long been vocal about the impacts they’re seeing from a shifting waste stream. A new group is now aiming to elevate the voice of compost operations in that conversation.
This is the first in a series of four articles that will discuss three codependent variables that must be addressed as part of any attempt to capture food waste from residential, institutional or commercial settings. Continue Reading
If a municipal recycling program wants to increase its performance, local government engagement is needed. Several program leaders made that clear during a discussion hosted by the U.S. EPA last week.
Curbside organics collection could be a key component of Washington, D.C.’s strategy to reach an 80 percent diversion rate. A feasibility study has laid out implementation details.