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Daily Digest: Jacksonville, Florida fines Republic, Waste Pro, Advanced
Plus, more plastics news from the G7 meeting in Canada, and multiple other legal or regulatory updates from around the country in our daily roundup.
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California passes law barring restaurants from automatically offering plastic straws
Per the new law — one of multiple plastic-related bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown — full-service restaurants can only provide plastic straws on request.
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Daily Digest: More big plastic promises at G7; New York City safety back in limelight
Plus, Waste Management has reached a new agreement about odor issues at High Acres, why a spoiled milk fragrance is being sold in Sweden and more in our daily roundup.
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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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27 global cities tout GHG emissions reductions
The U.S. cities included on the list are Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Portland, OR.
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Daily Digest: BioHiTech's landfill alternative moving forward in New York
Plus details on a dangerous morning for collection workers in two states, potential plans for a new composting investment in Tennessee and more in our daily roundup.
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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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