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How Republic is taking on distracted driving at a global level
VP Jim Olson discusses the company's leadership role in the Together for Safer Roads coalition and how it's viewed as a unique approach to this pressing industry problem.
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Daily Digest: San Francisco moves 'zero waste' goal posts; latest on Florence
Plus New York is expanding curbside e-waste collection, one Canadian city wants yard waste out of its organics bins and more in our daily roundup.
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Indianapolis set to unveil plans for long-awaited recycling program this fall
The capital is one of the largest in the Midwest without a curbside program after a controversial mixed waste plan fell through in 2016.
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Tariffs on $200B worth of imports from China start Sept. 24
The duties will start at 10% and rise to 25% at the beginning of 2019.
UPDATED: Sept. 18, 2018 at 9:55 a.m.
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Daily Digest: Florence breaches coal ash landfill, new deals by WM and WCA
Plus Jackson, Mississippi's curbside recycling program is in limbo, new organics infrastructure coming to upstate New York and more in our daily roundup.
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ColumnClean up on aisle 3: How to avoid hazardous waste enforcement
Columnist Rich Thompson is back with a look at the growing trend of expensive hazardous waste settlements with big-name companies and what can be done to avoid them.
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Daily Digest: What would it take to make recycling a national issue?
Plus news on the plastics industry's D.C. lobbying push, a $6 million cyclist death settlement, the Netherlands first plastic road and more in our daily roundup.
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Daily Digest: Pacific Coast sets 2030 food waste goal, scientists posit new ocean plastic patches
Plus Waste Management's CFO on women in the industry, California's latest container fraud crackdown, today's webinar schedule and more.
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NLRB to propose joint-employer rule that would undo Browning-Ferris
The rule would shift enforcement away from the Obama-era standard, making it more difficult for employers to be held jointly liable for NLRA violations.
UPDATED: Sept. 13, 2018 at 12:05 p.m.
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Recycling Partnership, Re-TRAC Connect launch program to standardize recycling data
The free program will use standardized data to identify areas for improvement in municipal curbside collection programs.
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4 technologies tackling food waste in the supply chain
From reefer sensors to avocado imagery, venture capitalists are pouring hundreds of millions into the trillion-dollar problem of food waste.
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OpinionWhat you need to know for e-Manifest compliance
Stericycle VP Maricha Ellis breaks down how to follow EPA guidelines for the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act.
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Daily Digest: Florence's toxic consequences, new Chinese investment in South Carolina
Plus details on Long Beach, California's new WTE deal with Covanta, the latest landfill solar projects and more in our daily roundup.
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Daily Digest: WCA expansion in Houston, school composting success in Omaha
Plus Sweden's Southeast Asian plastic pledge, Waste Pro's issues in Mississippi and more in our daily roundup.
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Q&AMeet NWRA's new safety VP: Kirk Sander
The industry's newest national safety executive discusses how his experience at OSHA and other high-profile jobs will influence his role.
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St. Louis suburb preserves curbside recycling after public pushback
Neighboring communities could follow suit after processing costs rise throughout the region. Kirkwood plans to continue the program in some form with a drop-off site.
UPDATED: Sept. 11, 2018 at 3:51 p.m.
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Daily Digest: Ocean Cleanup's plastic boom sets sail, Pruitt Superfund group scrutinized
Plus Hawaii announces big composting plans, U.K. shoppers turn against plastic and more in our daily roundup.
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ISRI Commodities Roundtable: China and tariffs are forcing market changes
Economists at the Chicago event covered the many trends — including automation — that scrap recycling businesses must adapt to for survival.
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Industry petitions OSHA to establish heat standard
More than 130 organizations asked the agency to establish protection rules for workers exposed to heat, the leading weather-related killer in the U.S.
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Daily Digest: Casella continues New York expansion, Basel plastic update
Plus Portland, Oregon's litter pledge, New York City getting another landfill park and more in our daily roundup.
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Washington, DC releases updated sustainability plan with waste goals
The draft includes goals for achieving "zero waste," capturing value from recovered materials and eventually expanding organics service.
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Kroger combats food waste with Apeel partnership
The grocer will introduce the long-lasting avocados in 109 Cincinnati stores this month, with plans to expand to other cities in the future.
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OpinionStudy: Plastic isn't the source of society's waste problem
The Earth Engineering Center in New York took a closer look at how plastic may have helped decouple MSW generation from economic growth in the U.S.
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Baltimore announces new food waste reduction plan
Officials hope the program will save tens of thousands of pounds of food from being incinerated each year.
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Daily Digest: New research on the plastic problem, Nine Dragons buying another US mill
Plus news on the latest AI advances in MRF technology, the newly named "Trash Pandas" baseball team and more in our daily roundup.
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