WM and Sendik Foods team up to start composting program

Wisconsin’s Sendik’s Food Markets and Waste Management have teamed to launch a program to compost discarded produce and flower arrangements

By Sean Griffey • Aug. 3, 2012

New recycling plant to be built in Virginia

Tak Investements will spend $60 million to build a recycled tissue plant in Isle of Wright County, Virginia

By Sean Griffey • Aug. 2, 2012

California to spend $1.7 million cleaning up tires

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) will award $1.7 million in grants to clean up illegally dumped tires.  

By Sean Griffey • Aug. 1, 2012

Arizona recycling plant to close; 300 workers to lose jobs

Canadian based, Catalyst Paper Company, has announced that it will close the Snowflake, Arizona recycling plant on September 30th due to lagging profit

By Sean Griffey • July 31, 2012

NYC unveils mobile recycling teaching lab

Sims Metal Management helps convert school bus which will tour NYC schools to teach students recycling lessons

By Sean Griffey • July 31, 2012

Waste Management to hire permanent replacements in strike

Waste Management announced that it would hire new drivers to permanently replace 153 striking workers from Teamsters Local 117 in Seattle.  Union says it is prepared for this action.

By Sean Griffey • July 31, 2012

ReCommunity opens new MRF in Arizona

The newly operating material recovery facility is capable of processing 25 tons of recyclables per hour

By Sean Griffey • July 31, 2012

APR Releases Document on Full-Sleeve Labels on PET Bottles

The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), Washington, D.C., has released a guidance document that provides information on dealing with the growing issue of full body sleeve labels on PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles. According to the APR, “Sleeve Label Substrate for...

By Sean Griffey • July 31, 2012

Rhode Island town drafting new bag ban

Barrington, Rhode Island town council voted last night to draft proposed legislation that would ban the use of disposable plastic bags from retails establishments

By Sean Griffey • July 31, 2012

RES Polyflow formed to make fuel from plastic waste

Polyflow, LLC and P/E firm Ambassador Enterprises have formed a new company, RES Polyflow, to commercialize Polyflow’s energy recovery technology.

By Sean Griffey • July 30, 2012

Strike Update: Teamsters give Waste Management new proposal

Union Leaders from Teamsters Local 117 presented a confidential proposal with a federal mediator to end the 6 day old strike. The company is evaluating the offer. 

By Sean Griffey • July 30, 2012

Thieves stealing residents recycling before pickup

The owner of Michian Recycling and Disposal Services in Indiana claims that thieves are taking recyclables from residents before his crews can collect them

By Sean Griffey • July 27, 2012

Worker dies at Michigan recycling plant

A 27 year old worker is killed when he falls into an industrial grinding machine.

By Sean Griffey • July 26, 2012

Compost start-up, EcoScraps, raises $1.5 million in funding

Company announces Series-A funding lead by Utah-based KickStart

By Sean Griffey • July 25, 2012

Waste Management recycling drivers go on strike

After months of tense labor negotiations, 153 Waste Management recycling and yard waste drivers from Teamsters Local 117 went on strike Wednesday afternoon. The workers have been without contract since May 31st.

By Sean Griffey • July 25, 2012

Viridor wins contract for WTE and recycling plant

Company signs a 25 year contract to design, build, finance, and operate a 200,000 TPA recycling and WTE plant in Glasgow

By Sean Griffey • July 25, 2012

Advanced Disposal gets permission for new recycling center

Company received a permit from the Macon-Bibb (GA) County Planning & Zoning Commission to build a recyclable materials processing and transfer station in Bibb County

By Sean Griffey • July 24, 2012

Republic Services to Hold MRF Grand Opening

Republic Services, headquartered in Phoenix, will hold the official grand opening of its Newby Island Resource Recovery Park in Milpitas, Calif., which the company describes as the largest recycling operation in the world. The ceremony will take place Aug. 9, 2012. When fully operational, ...

By Sean Griffey • July 23, 2012

New program will teach people to compost

Compost Coaching, a program designed to teach efficient composting, is coming to British Columbia, Canada

By Sean Griffey • July 23, 2012

Recycling plant facing charges after scrap fire

Calgary Metal Recycling charged with 17 counts of violating fire and safety codes

By Sean Griffey • July 20, 2012

Canadian region evaluating curbside e-waste pickup

The Canadian Falls Niagara region is considering a 3 month curbside recycling pilot program 

By Sean Griffey • July 19, 2012

Efforts to repeal Issaquah, WA plastic bag ban falls short

A measure to repeal a plastic bag ban in Issquah, Washington fell short after organizers failed to collect enough signatures to put the measure on the local  ballot

By Sean Griffey • July 19, 2012

Europe sets PET recycling rate record

In 2011, a record 51% of all PET bottles in the market were recycled

By Sean Griffey • July 18, 2012

New York town latest to ban plastic bags

While it likely won’t have the same national impact of Seattle or Los Angeles, Mamaroneck, New York is the latest city to enact a plastic bag ban. 

By Sean Griffey • July 18, 2012

Welcome to the new Waste Management Dive

We’ve made significant changes to our website designed to help you stay connected to the news and commentary that matter.

By Sean Griffey • July 17, 2012