Corporate

Advanced Disposal buys Alabama landfill, hauler for $15M

The acquisition of Alabama Waste Disposal Solutions from EC Waste provides a new foothold between the Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta markets.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 18, 2019
Nestlé lays out first steps to making all product packaging recyclable by 2025

The company will begin phasing out straws, using more paper-based packaging and upping its usage of recycled PET this year.

By Katie Pyzyk • Jan. 16, 2019
Strategic Materials teams up with North Carolina county to resurrect glass recycling

A new drop-off option, introduced after glass was cut from curbside programs, is expected to save Moore County money and generate cleaner material for Strategic's local processing operation.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 16, 2019
Waste Management adding 'buffer' truck in Texas after worker fatality

This seemingly unique defense against distracted driving will be used in one particularly high-traffic area, though an ongoing conversion to automated side-load trucks is still said to be a national priority.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 15, 2019
New industry group pledges $1B to combat plastic pollution

More than two dozen global companies, including many of the world's largest plastic chemical manufacturers, have formed a nonprofit called the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

By Rina Li • Jan. 15, 2019
Column
Scrap Collector: 'Trump's Trash' and the Oakland Garbage Blitz

Plus, an NYC proposal aims for increased private waste industry oversight, and a nonprofit takes on Big Plastic.

By Rina Li • Jan. 11, 2019
California could ban paper receipts by 2022

Proposed legislation would require businesses to prioritize digital receipts, per estimates that paper versions generate up to 686 million pounds of waste per year.

By Kristine Sherred • UPDATED: Jan. 11, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.
Federal judge: Waste Management's Reno, Nevada monopoly protected by state law

A case challenging the city's commercial franchise agreement, brought by Green Solutions Recycling, has been dismissed.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 09, 2019
Deep Dive
6 key questions for the waste and recycling industry in 2019

We'll be keeping an eye on recycling, climate change, landfills, alternative technologies, corporate consolidation, labor issues and much more in the year ahead.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 09, 2019
Deltona, Florida suspends curbside recycling indefinitely

With processing costs from Waste Pro now twice as high as landfill disposal, and future market conditions uncertain, city staff recommended the move. Exclusive franchising is also under discussion.

By Katie Pyzyk • Jan. 09, 2019
Virginia Gov. Northam backs bill requiring Dominion to excavate all coal ash

Environmental groups say the governor's move is a "clear acknowledgement" that capping and keeping 27 million cubic yards of the utility's coal ash in place is not a tenable solution.

By Catherine Morehouse • Jan. 07, 2019
Deep Dive
How recycling is changing in all 50 states

The latest updates come from Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 02, 2019
Waste Connections: Louisiana DEQ 'wrongly scapegoated' landfill over odors

A Dec. 20 letter protests LDEQ's "incorrect and misleading public statements" regarding documented odor issues at the Waste Connections-operated Jefferson Parish Landfill.

By Rina Li • Jan. 02, 2019
Waste Management's 20-year path to 'moonshot' climate goal: cleaner fleet, more recycling

The company's 2018 Sustainability Report offers the most detailed plans yet on offsetting four times the amount of GHG emissions it produces.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 01, 2019
Anti-franchising group set to rejoin NWRA's New York chapter

New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management, founded in 2016 amid strategy disagreements over a major commercial waste zone proposal, is bringing its members back into the national trade association.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 28, 2018
Our 10 best stories of 2018

Catch up on some of our biggest stories involving Waste Management, Republic Services, Waste Connections, GFL Environmental, Rubicon Global, TerraCycle and, of course, China.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 21, 2018
A tale of two cities: Landfills drive Waste Management and Republic deals in Texas

The companies recently completed transactions with each other in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth markets that, while viewed as largely unremarkable, illustrate the high importance placed on owning disposal assets.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 20, 2018
Fulcrum BioEnergy promises $600M waste-to-fuel project in Gary, Indiana

The company's second facility, including a yet-to-open site in Nevada, has backing from BP, United Airlines, Waste Management and Waste Connections.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 14, 2018
Coca-Cola invests in European PET recycling company

Ioniqa Technologies is developing the tools to process otherwise hard-to-recycle plastics as the soda company wants to transition to at least 50% recycled packaging materials by 2030.

By Nina Sparling
Whole Foods stops using compostable containers with PFAS

A study on food packaging in five major grocery companies found that more than two-thirds may have been treated with PFAS. Advocates are now calling for commercial composters to stop accepting the material.

By Kristine Sherred • Dec. 12, 2018
Gold Medal pursues new type of vertical integration with Apple Valley deal

This recent acquisition gives the New Jersey company a stake in the soon-to-open Entsorga West Virginia MBT project, plus access to new markets such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 11, 2018
Akron, Ohio's ban on glass recycling creates confusion between city and processor

The city said Waste Management wanted the glass ban. The company said this isn't the case. Now, residents are caught in the middle.

By Katie Pyzyk • Dec. 10, 2018
Waste Connections acquires American Disposal Services

The deal, first hinted at in October, brings an estimated $175 million in acquired revenue and 400,000 customers.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 10, 2018
Rubicon wins collection tech contract in Spokane, Washington

The deal, which includes new technology in 100 vehicles, is worth more than $923,000 if extended for a full five-year term.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 07, 2018
Q&A
E360S CEO Ardellini ready to make acquisitions "right across North America"

The brand new Canadian company is starting out with $100 million in private equity backing, a big name hockey legend and a recently acquired Alberta hauler.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 06, 2018