Organics

In Toronto, as in other cities, multi-family residential recycling rates have been stubbornly lower than their single-family counterparts. As Canada's...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that 40 percent of municipalities included in a research set have programs aimed at...

A group that uses corporate money to lift materials recovery has awarded a total of $350,000 to eight projects aimed...

Around 100,000 chopsticks are discarded in Vancouver, British Columbia every day, and that fact has led to a unique line...

If a municipal recycling program wants to increase its performance, local government engagement is needed. Several program leaders made that...

Curbside organics collection could be a key component of Washington, D.C.'s strategy to reach an 80 percent diversion rate. A...

A legal petition filed last week claims a mixed-waste processing facility being built by Waste Management in California could harm...

Minnesota is on track to improve the accuracy of its annual recycling and waste management data reporting, so its recent...

An organics-focused operation in California estimated to cost more than $120 million will extract recoverable material from municipal solid waste. But...

Chicago wants to better educate residents of a neighborhood posting a 6 percent diversion rate, and two reports calls on...