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World Bank: Global waste generation could increase 70% by 2050
A new in-depth report highlights the mounting inequities of waste management around the world, along with the financial and climate opportunities that could come from truly addressing it.
By Cody Ellis • Sept. 23, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 21, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 19, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 19, 2018 -
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.
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 18, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 18, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 17, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 14, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 12, 2018 -
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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.
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 12, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 11, 2018 -
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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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 11, 2018 -
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.
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 10, 2018 -
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 10, 2018 -
Courtesy of Casella Waste Systems
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.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 7, 2018 -
Washington, DC releases updated sustainability plan with waste goals
The draft includes goals for achieving "zero waste," capturing value from recovered materials and eventually expanding organics service.
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 6, 2018 -
Opinion
Study: Plastic isn't the source of society's waste problem
The Earth Engineering Center in New York took a closer look at how plastic may have helped decouple MSW generation from economic growth in the U.S.
By Demetra Tsiamis • Sept. 6, 2018 -
Daily Digest: New research on the plastic problem, Nine Dragons buying another US mill
Plus news on the latest AI advances in MRF technology, the newly named "Trash Pandas" baseball team and more in our daily roundup.
By Cole Rosengren , Jordan Schultz • Sept. 6, 2018 -
Opinion
Securing scrap: The revolution in yard security
STANLEY Security's Drew Alexander explains how advancements in technology can have big effects for scrap yards.
By Drew Alexander • Sept. 5, 2018 -
Courtesy of Waste Management
Daily Digest: WM names COO, buys Pennsylvania company; Waco landfill proceeds
Plus WTE protests in New Hampshire, PAYT concerns in Maryland and more in our daily roundup.
By Cole Rosengren , Jordan Schultz • Sept. 5, 2018 -
Daily Digest: Sanitation Salvage suspension upheld in NYC, Wheelabrator closing Florida WTE
Plus Republic reverses course on Illinois recycling cancellation, a $6 million fire in North Carolina and more in our daily roundup.
By Cole Rosengren , Jordan Schultz • Sept. 4, 2018 -
Lake Worth, Florida reverting to dual-stream collection next month
The city had offered single-stream collection for 10 years, but was plagued by contamination and recently turned to Palm Beach County for a new approach.
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 4, 2018 -
Ohio city suspends recycling for two years with hopes to resume
Oregon, a suburb of Toledo, will launch a public education campaign during the hiatus and potentially rebid its contract.
By Katie Pyzyk • Aug. 31, 2018 -
Daily Digest: Republic's sustainability talking points, Austin tries to salvage bag ban
Plus trash piling up in Acapulco, the latest solar landfill project gets approval and more in our daily roundup.
By Cole Rosengren , Jordan Schultz • Aug. 31, 2018 -
Opinion
Letter to the editor: What's really going on in Germany
A German native with decades of waste management experience responds to recent comments made by Waste Connections CEO Ron Mittelstaedt.
By Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann • Aug. 30, 2018
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