Bernie Sanders's $16.3T climate plan promises major waste and recycling shifts

The Democratic presidential candidate's platform includes a national recycling program, divestment from incinerators, funding for food recovery and composting investments, and a right to repair policy.

By Rina Li • Aug. 30, 2019

New Jersey governor vetoes controversial food waste bill

The organics diversion mandate, which would have still allowed material to go to incinerators and most landfills, returns to the state legislature.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated Aug. 28, 2019

Federal bill aims to extend renewable energy tax credits for biogas and WTE

The bill would incentivize development of qualifying biogas, WTE and biomass projects. While attention to organic waste has spurred recent biogas investment, new incinerator projects have been less frequent.

By Rina Li • Aug. 22, 2019

Scrap Collector: Australia's recyclable export ban creates domestic opportunities — including incineration

Plus: Lion King collectibles get the landfill treatment, and Modi calls for Indian single-use plastics ban.

By Rina Li • Aug. 16, 2019

Scrap Collector: Rep. Ilhan Omar's Zero Waste Act billed as 'key part' of Green New Deal

Plus: Florida activists dump 3,000 pounds of plastic litter in front of historic state capitol, and India's first "garbage cafe" offering food for trash.

By Rina Li • Aug. 2, 2019

Precipitous drop in reclaimed plastic film exports drags down recovery efforts

A recent report commissioned by the American Chemistry Council raises questions about how much reclaimed film may have been disposed when export markets dried up in 2017.

By Katie Pyzyk • July 31, 2019

How one island territory is getting creative with upcycling and reuse

The British Virgin Islands experienced recycling challenges long before commodity market shifts. Now, the failure of a critical incinerator has prompted a whole new materials management plan.

By Genevieve Glatsky • July 31, 2019

Covanta Q2: Price increases continue as commodity revenues dip

Tough markets for metals and energy have caused the company to lower its 2019 guidance, but executives expressed optimism about overall prospects.

By Cole Rosengren • July 29, 2019

New York county expands scope of waste facility moratorium

A Rensselaer County ordinance intended to block construction of a BioHiTech facility has now been amended to include more land and technology types.

By Cole Rosengren , Leia Larsen • Updated Aug. 14, 2019

Disputed ground: The future of landfill gas-to-energy

Gas capture at landfills creates electricity and revenue, but also has economic and environmental disadvantages.

By Max Witynski • July 12, 2019

Scrap Collector: US emerges as world's top producer of waste

Plus: A Canadian grocer's shame-inducing plastic bag scheme, and mass anti-incinerator protests in Chinese city.

By Rina Li • July 12, 2019

Off the Route: Von Hernandez on 'turning the tide' of plastic pollution

Hernandez spoke to Waste Dive about his career as a waste and toxics campaigner, waste dumping in Southeast Asia and the path toward creating mass systemic change around plastics.

By Rina Li • July 3, 2019

New Jersey passes food waste bill favoring landfills and WTE

A bill once intended to promote diversion to compost and digestion facilities will now allow unique exemptions due to lobbying from landfill and incinerator operators.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated June 28, 2019

Boston finally reaches recycling deal with Casella

Covanta and Wheelabrator will also retain residential waste contracts. Both deals may be regional bellwethers of higher prices to come.

By Cole Rosengren • June 24, 2019

Florida county urges cities to give regional recycling collaboration another chance

Broward County is pitching a new approach as recycling rates plummet and Waste Management costs rise. Some cities still haven't shaken off bad memories from the last regional partnership.

By Leia Larsen • June 24, 2019

Scrap Collector: Southeast Asian activists call for ASEAN ban on foreign waste imports

Plus: Hawaii County approves bill allowing substitution of polystyrene with low-value plastics, and UK government slammed for rejecting textile waste recommendations.

By Rina Li • June 21, 2019

BioHiTech Global sees new MBT facility as a model for Northeast disposal crunch

Entsorga West Virginia, jokingly referred to as "Waste Disneyland," is described as a complement to limited regional landfills. Waste Dive spoke with the executive team about growth plans.

By Cole Rosengren • June 20, 2019

Philadelphia City Council approves Waste Management, Covanta contracts

The companies will retain their lock on the city's disposal contracts following recent council approval, with Waste Management taking over processing of all residential recyclables.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated June 18, 2019

Letters to the editor: WTE is the true circular solution

Two experts in the WTE field respond to last week's op-ed, "A broken link in the circular economy," with a focus on why landfills shouldn't get a pass in the discussion.

May 24, 2019

Conversations with execs from 8 key industry companies

Catch up on Waste Dive's interviews with Waste Management, Republic Services, Waste Connections, GFL Environmental, Covanta, WCA Waste, FCC Environmental and Rubicon Global from WasteExpo 2019.

By Waste Dive Team • May 24, 2019

Scrap Collector: Vermont passes nation's 'toughest' plastics bill yet

Plus: Wheelabrator withdraws New York monofill proposal, and study reveals Coca-Cola to be the most common plastic packaging pollution source at UK beaches.

By Rina Li • May 24, 2019

Nearly 80% of US incinerators located in marginalized communities, report reveals

New research from the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School characterizes incineration as "an industry in decline." WTE stakeholders, however, hold a different opinion.

By Rina Li • May 23, 2019

Scrap Collector: Plastic's 'hidden' climate impacts revealed

Plus: Six-foot-high pile of unopened Amazon Go meals and groceries discovered in Seattle landfill, and Philippines recalls ambassador to Canada over ongoing illegal waste standoff.

By Rina Li • May 17, 2019

A broken link in the circular economy

Scott Sherman, a former official with the EPA and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, outlines why he believes renewed talk about WTE over landfills is ill-advised.

By Scott Sherman • May 16, 2019

New Republic Services president: 'Death of landfills has been overexaggerated'

Waste Dive met with Jon Vander Ark to discuss retention strategies, why recycling may grow faster than solid waste, what's next for landfill operations, and the risks and opportunities of climate change.

By Cole Rosengren • May 15, 2019