Clean Harbors sees opportunity in PFAS as environmental solutions segment buoys growth

Executives said a recent Department of Defense announcement that it would resume PFAS incineration validates the company’s earlier work on the material and represents a significant growth opportunity.

By Jacob Wallace • Aug. 2, 2023

Republic expects higher revenues amid plans for polymer centers, environmental solutions growth

Republic Services’ leaders shared new details about its polymer centers and continued integration of US Ecology, but noted it may have found the ceiling for price increases in certain markets.

By Jacob Wallace • Aug. 1, 2023

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Q2 earnings results for major waste and recycling companies

Follow the latest results from Republic Services, WM, GFL Environmental, Stericycle and more as they release their midyear earnings reports.

By Waste Dive Staff • Updated Aug. 10, 2023

Stericycle meets debt leverage ratio goal, maintains 2023 guidance

The company also continues to divest from international businesses and says it’s moving toward “greater investment flexibility” in the future. 

By Megan Quinn • July 27, 2023

GFL Environmental raises 2023 guidance, pays down debt after divestitures

The Canada-based company is using higher-than-expected proceeds from three separate asset sales to improve its leverage ratio and invest more in sustainability projects.

By Jacob Wallace • July 27, 2023

WM lowers 2023 guidance due to commodity prices but reports ‘solid results’ despite headwinds

WM CEO Jim Fish said he was pleased with how the company managed inflation, commodity and volume headwinds to end the second quarter.

By Megan Quinn • July 26, 2023

Inside WIN Waste’s $45M upgrades to its Baltimore waste-to-energy facility

Following language in its 10-year contract with the city of Baltimore, WIN Waste performed upgrades to lower emissions by replacing its electrostatic precipitators with fabric filter technology.

By Jacob Wallace • July 24, 2023

House Appropriations Committee approves slashing EPA budget, pulling back EJ grants

The budget approved last week would cut EPA’s budget by 39% and rescind Inflation Reduction Act-funded climate grants, but it also called for more attention to chemical recycling and plastic-based fuel research.

By Megan Quinn • July 24, 2023

Miami-Dade County at ‘crossroads’ as solid waste director steps down

Director Mike Fernandez is departing as the county faces unanswered questions about the future of incineration, recycling and more.

By Jacob Wallace • July 14, 2023

WIN Waste resets leadership team, elevating Mayo to CEO

Dan Mayo, formerly CFO, is now leading the New Hampshire-based company. Bob Boucher is stepping back after an eight-year tenure that included multiple acquisitions and growth to more than $1 billion in annual revenue.

By Cole Rosengren • July 14, 2023

Minnesota looks to reduce Twin Cities’ waste fast as disposal capacity tightens

A proposed 20-year plan for the metro area places an emphasis on strategies to reduce waste at its source and would require local governments to make numerous changes in collection programs and other policies.

By Jacob Wallace • July 13, 2023

‘Waste-to-value’ development firm Nexus PMG targets biochar, energy following $50M infusion

Nexus PMG has raised its first major growth equity round from institutional backers. The funding will help grow its advisory business as well as subsidiaries Nexus W2V and Pathway Energy. 

By Jacob Wallace • July 11, 2023

Former Fiberight facility in Maine to restart in deal with private equity-backed group

Innovative Resource Recovery would jointly own and operate the closed mixed-waste facility with a group of 115 communities.

By Jacob Wallace • July 7, 2023

California to consider satellites, covers and flaring in landfill emissions rule update

The California Air Resources Board is in the process of updating its landfill methane regulation for the first time since 2010, with an eye toward new technologies and better practices to reduce emissions.

By Jacob Wallace • July 6, 2023

How the waste industry prepared for and reacted to the EPA’s 2023 Renewable Fuel Standard update

The agency’s final rules to generate renewable energy credits from certain systems are seen as a benefit for anaerobic digesters and certain landfill projects. Catch up on coverage of key developments.

June 29, 2023

Waste industry groups, lawmakers vow to continue push for eRINs

Waste industry groups, including WM and the Waste-to-Energy Association, have said they will continue to work with the U.S. EPA to enact the program despite its exclusion from the recently updated Renewable Fuel Standard.

By Jacob Wallace • June 26, 2023

Tweak in EPA’s renewable fuels program could ‘transform food waste recycling,’ biogas experts say

The apportionment of two kinds of RIN credits will now allow wastewater treatment plants to accept and codigest food waste without taking a financial hit. Farm-based digesters that rely on manure also benefit from the change.

By Jacob Wallace • June 23, 2023

EPA releases final Renewable Fuel Standard rule without proposed credit market for EV fueling

The new rule was published without the lucrative but controversial eRIN program. But the EPA proposed better credits for RNG, something biogas industry advocates had called for.

By Jacob Wallace • June 21, 2023

Anaergia announces new CEO to succeed founder

Brett Hodson, previously president and CEO of Corix Infrastructure, will take over the top role at the anaerobic digestion and RNG company. This move follows the recent announcement of a new CFO.

By Cole Rosengren • June 21, 2023

New York leaders see a role for composting and codigestion as the city scales up organics recycling

Community composters are pushing for a continued role following the passage of a suite of bills targeting organics as the city also looks to scale up codigestion capacity at wastewater treatment plants.

By Jacob Wallace • Updated June 16, 2023

Vanguard Renewables strikes largest open market RNG deal yet with AstraZeneca

Vanguard executives and RNG proponents hope the 15-year deal is joined by others as corporations look for solutions for hard-to-decarbonize processes.

By Jacob Wallace • June 14, 2023

Anaergia’s new CFO brings additional experience in the RNG space

Andrew Spence joins after stints at Aria Energy and Ameresco, as Anaergia looks to update its business model for anaerobic digestion projects.

By Jacob Wallace • June 13, 2023

Contentious Connecticut waste and recycling bill heads to governor’s desk, without EPR

Legislators cut packaging EPR details from a sweeping bill that includes requirements for recycled content and organics diversion, as well as initial plans for new in-state processing capacity.

By Megan Quinn • June 8, 2023

EPA withdraws proposal to drop pyrolysis from regulation following criticism

Clean Air Act emissions limits will remain in place for a category of facilities that includes small MSW combustors and certain institutional waste incinerators after Monday’s decision.

By Jacob Wallace • June 6, 2023

West Virginia authority terminates Renovare’s lease at shuttered mixed waste facility in move to reopen

More than a year after the company largely abandoned its 110,000-ton-per-year operation, waste remains on-site and fires have occurred. U.S. Bank’s move to block a bankruptcy effort has further complicated the situation.

By Cole Rosengren • June 6, 2023