NYC industry leaders, residents learn about RNG, organic waste benefits

A pilot program currently yields up to 40 tons per day of organic waste from about 100,000 residences.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 15, 2015

PA officials tired of illegal dumping, searching for solutions at recycling trailers

Ford City and other communities have struggled for many years to deal with people who under cover of night, dump mattresses and computers.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 15, 2015

Montana grapples with oilfield waste landfill proposal

A landfill for oilfield waste in Eastern Montana has residents concerned about proximity to their homes.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 15, 2015

Odor system and recycling center part of MO landfill settlement

Though there were complaints about odor, the landfill registered one odor level above state regulations since October.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 15, 2015

Waste Management must close Tullytown landfill by 2017, PA DEP says

After decades of complaints from residents near a Tullytown, PA landfill about odors coming from it, and millions spent by Waste Management to correct the problem, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ordered the 27-year-old firm to be closed by 2017.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 10, 2015

Landfills, utilities collaborating on coal ash disposal solutions

The recent EPA reclassification of coal ash allows the waste to be placed in MSW landfills and opens up a lot of potential work, but the classification also leaves open the possibility of future challenges and changes to that rule.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 9, 2015

Wegmans food waste efforts electrifying New York farms

A dozen of the grocer’s stores are working with two New York farms to convert food waste into energy for use by the farms and for use in the grid.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 8, 2015

TN firm aims for composting awareness, business expansion

With its recently inked contract to compost food waste from Music City Center, Nashville-based The Compost Company are hoping it can offer the service to firms located downtown in the city.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 8, 2015

Hormel Foods outpaces goal of food waste reduction

The company recently acheived its waste reduction goals six years earlier than it originally had planned.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 5, 2015

Green groups fight FirstEnergy’s plan for sending coal ash to old landfill

The coal ash must go somewhere, but a trio of environmental groups want Pennsylvania to block FirstEnergy’s plan to transport the waste more than 100 miles upriver to a closed landfill the utility would like to reopen.

By Jonathan Barnes • June 4, 2015

Polystyrene ban puts jobs on the line, NY state senators tell NYC mayor

Though a city prohibition on using single-use polystyrene items such as plates, cups, and eggshell to-go cartons will go into effect July 1, two state senators want the mayor to back away from the plan to ban. 

By Jonathan Barnes • June 1, 2015

Great Lakes plastic unresolved and growing issue, experts warn

Companies are working to handle ocean plastic, though they can’t compete with the constant depositing of the material into waterways.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 29, 2015

MN Twins work to lower home field waste through biodegradables

The team has turned to biodegradable items as a means to get closer to acheiving a 90% waste diversion rate at its home field.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 29, 2015

Mountain of ice and waste lingers in Boston

A formerly 75-foot-tall mountain of snow, ice, dirt, and waste from Boston’s snow-clogged winter streets is now a three-story hill of garbage, dirt, and ice.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 29, 2015

Could more IA landfill agreements follow amid bird flu crisis?

Federal officials have inked agreements with two state landfills to accept waste related to the avian flu outbreak.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 28, 2015

ME city could allow more landfill dumping despite past leachate, ammonia problems

City officials are hoping to ink a deal with their waste hauler that will provide lower tipping fees and also lowered collection rates for residents.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 28, 2015

Whole-log burner could benefit various industries

A new wood waste-to-energy system could help reduce wood waste across the nation, while strengthening the timber industry.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 28, 2015

Fort Smith Landfill receiving upgrades

Upgrades coming to Fort Smith Regional Sanitary Landfill will appeal to the public and waste haulers alike.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 27, 2015

Buena Vista Landfill readying last cell, signaling site’s limited time

Workers for Buena Vista Landfill in California are preparing the last cell on the site to accept waste, meaning the landfill probably has just 20 years or less to continue operations.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 27, 2015

Illinois senate sends bill to gov to keep gas plant waste and PCBs from landfill

Waste products used 100 years ago to heat and light Illinois cities have been unearthed and deposited in a landfill which sits over an aquifer.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 26, 2015

WISErg making food waste into high-nutrient fertilizer

Two former Microsoft employees have found a way to take such waste and turn it into a product that helps farmers and consumers grow vegetables and other food.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 26, 2015

IA county to accept bird flu corpses at landfill, though officials’ concerns remain: report

Concerns loom regarding contamination, but  officials have a disposal plan that they think will guard against the spreading of the disease.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 21, 2015

DEP, Casella see settlement

The settlement also provides in-kind services to the county.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 20, 2015

IA city takes recycling approach to fight spread of bird flu

Through a unique recycling approach that saves it money, Des Moines, IA is talking steps to slow the spread of the bird flu.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 20, 2015

GA county receives landfill expansion grant

It’s an expansion that’s necessary to avoid hauling construction waste to a landfill not owned by the county.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 19, 2015