Casella in negotiations to sell Waste-to-Energy facility and buy landfill

Casella Waste is in negotiations with a city in Maine to sell a waste-to-energy facility and buy a landfill.

By Sean Griffey • April 6, 2012

Tempers Flare Over New Waste Stations In NYC

Staten Island residents angered by plan to re-open a local facility closed in 2001.

By Sean Griffey • April 5, 2012

General Mills On Target for Solid Waste Reduction Goal

General Mills Inc. is halfway to its 2015 goal of a 50-percent reduction in solid waste generation

By Sean Griffey • April 5, 2012

Access to Plastics Recycling Rises to 95% in Canada

Updated figures that show over 95% of Canadians now have access to plastic recycling

By Sean Griffey • April 5, 2012

New options for nuclear waste?

Crushing Pressure Surprisingly Opens Up Nanopores in Mineral

By Sean Griffey • April 4, 2012

Waste Management quantifies energy value in trash

Waste Management Inc. recently estimated the $12.3 billion it gets for hauling trash to landfills may be worth more than $40 billion a year in energy. 

By Sean Griffey • April 4, 2012

Landfill odors result in $2.3 million penalty

Republic Services ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages to South Carolina residents because of odors from landfill.

By Sean Griffey • April 4, 2012

Australia to take comprehensive review of waste-to-energy technology

Report  will review different technologies used in Europe, US, and Japan. 

By Sean Griffey • April 4, 2012

Medical waste incinerator proposed, opposition mounts

Residents in Baker County, Fla., are voicing their opposition to a planned medical waste incinerator, a Jacksonville television station reported. 

By Sean Griffey • April 3, 2012

Fairfax, Va., to get recycling bins in parks

Recycling bins and dumpsters will be placed at several Fairfax, Va., parks that are used heavily for athletic activities. 

By Sean Griffey • April 2, 2012

Apple to Build Biogas Fuel Cell Facility

Apple has filed its plans to build the 5 MW fuel cell project 

By Sean Griffey • April 2, 2012

Majoring in Recycling

Universities and waste and recycling organizations have teamed up on several fronts. 

By Sean Griffey • March 31, 2012

Looking at the Recyclebank and Waste Management partnership

Waste 360 looks inside the Recyclebank and Waste Management partnership.

By Sean Griffey • March 31, 2012

New recycling center approved in New Jersey

Burlington County to build $9.1 million single-stream recycling facility.  

By Sean Griffey • March 30, 2012

Spokesman: Republic willing to negotiate with strikers

Republic Services Inc., in response to Teamster dissatisfaction in four markets, is indicating the company is ready to resume negotiations to settle labor strife.

By Sean Griffey • March 29, 2012

Republic worker strike spreads to Seattle

The garbage worker strike initiated by Teamsters in Mobile, Ala., in opposition to labor law violations by Republic Services has spread to Seattle, Wash. 

By Sean Griffey • March 29, 2012

Landfills are ideal locations for solar installations

The solar industry finding that landfills are ideal locations for clean renewable energy systems.

By Sean Griffey • March 29, 2012

Waste Management awards grants to 41 organizations

Waste Management awards grants to encourage the development of local environmental solutions

By Sean Griffey • March 28, 2012

Cleveland fires waste-to-energy consultant

Cleveland officials fired a consultant tasked with designing a $180 million waste-to-energy plant after finding drafts containing errors and incorrect calculations.

By Sean Griffey • March 28, 2012

EPA fines N.H.'s CSG Holdings Inc.

CSG Holdings Inc. of Columbia, N.H. faces a possible fine of up to $532,500 from the U.S. EPA for allowing polluted stormwater and process water from its mining facility to flow into nearby waters, the agency said.

By Sean Griffey • March 28, 2012

Company to build Fla. recycling center

The Indian River County Recyclers LLC recycling center will break ground in Florida within the next month. 

By Sean Griffey • March 27, 2012

San Francisco combats recycling thefts

San Francisco, Calif., city officials are holding a hearing next month to discuss the impact of recycling theft. 

By Sean Griffey • March 27, 2012

Forecast: Waste-to-Energy Market to Reach $29.2 Billion by 2022

In 2011, the world generated an estimated 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste (MSW). Although more than 800 thermal Waste-to-Energy plants currently operate around the globe, these facilities treated just 11% of the generated MSW. According to a new report from Pike Research, that numb...

By Sean Griffey • March 26, 2012

Republic Services' workers strike in Mobile, Ala.

A couple dozen trash workers went on strike late last week against Republic Services Inc.'s Allied Waste Services unit in Mobile, Ala., according to the Teamsters. 

By Sean Griffey • March 26, 2012

Court denies challenge to L.A. County bag ban

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has rejected a challenge to the county's ban on plastic bags and 10-cent tax on paper bags. 

By Sean Griffey • March 26, 2012