What We're Reading: Page 104
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Aug 09, 2022
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Bloomberg Law
White House environmental justice advisers prod Biden on incinerator emissions rules.
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Bangor Daily News
Judge approves sale of shuttered Fiberight trash plant to group representing Maine cities and towns.
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Lowell Sun
Concerns with WM service pile up around Lowell, Massachusetts.
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WFMJ
Lafarge landfill in Ohio sued for $5M by neighbor over dust and odor.
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13WMAZ
Monroe County, Georgia, putting temporary pause on commercial waste intake as landfill cell nears capacity.
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Resource Recycling
How cities and processors are adapting to sky-high fuel costs.
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Reuters
Whirlpool to buy InSinkErator for $3B to beef up kitchen presence.
Aug 08, 2022
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The New York Times
New York City’s compost services are scheduled to be available in Queens come October.
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Bloomberg
Macquarie Group makes $2.4B deal with Veolia to buy Suez’s UK recycling and recovery business.
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CBS8
A San Diego school district is suing for cleanup of a landfill underneath a middle school.
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The Intercept
US Ecology didn’t report over 11M pounds of PFAS-contaminated waste at a Nevada facility, public records show.
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Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A judge ordered the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to pay nearly $750K, saying the city deceived the public in landfilling recycling pickups.
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Sippican Week
Multiple fire departments responded to a fire at Covanta’s Rochester WTE facility.
Aug 05, 2022
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Inside INdiana Business
LRS continues expansion with two new portable restroom acquisitions in Indiana and Minnesota.
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Curbed
Curbed kicks off ‘Hot Garbage Month’ in New York City.
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WYPR
Baltimore earmarks $14.7M from federal COVID-19 relief funds for community trash removal.
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GreenBiz
Is advanced recycling the answer to plastic waste?
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Worcester Business Journal
Polar Beverages joins Vanguard’s Farm Powered Strategic Alliance, along with Chobani, Kikkoman and others.
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Retail Dive
Walmart launches product refurbishment program.
Aug 04, 2022
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KFOR
City employee from Altus, Oklahoma, dies following landfill incident.
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Omaha World-Herald
Extreme heat may cause delays in Omaha, Nebraska, garbage collection as FCC cites staffing limitations.
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Bangor Daily News
Company helping restart Hampden, Maine, trash plant has roots in failed Katahdin-area investor.
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Aspen Public Radio
Delta County, Colorado, landfill site seeks to grow its compost operations.
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Resource Recycling
Two cities nab awards for recycling program excellence.
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Recycling Today
NAPCOR names new executive director.
Aug 03, 2022
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WTAE
Big’s Sanitation truck driver dies after crashing into two homes in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.
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Charlotte Observer
WM working Saturdays to catch up on recycling in Charlotte, North Carolina, due to coronavirus-related absences.
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CNBC
Nikola to acquire EV battery pack supplier Romeo Power in $144M deal.
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Habitat Magazine
Orange is the new brown: NYC organics recycling has a new twist with drop-off system.
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American Recycler News
Increased fuel costs impact waste and recycling businesses.
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Colorado Public Radio
A proposal in Colorado Springs may pay people transitioning out of homelessness to clean trash from city rights of way.
Aug 02, 2022
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KSAT
Texas-based Warrior Disposal tells customers it’s filing for bankruptcy; trash pickup to stop immediately.
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Goshen News
Staffing limitations put Indiana county landfill at risk, operating hours to be reduced.
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Magnolia Reporter
Arkansas county, dissatisfied with service after GFL took over contract with WCA acquisition, considers collection options.
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Resource Recycling
Why a California waste district took ‘waste’ out of its name.
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New York Daily News
Former DSNY commissioners: This New York sanitation reform bill is just rubbish.
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CFO Dive
CFOs look for consistency, transparency in emerging sustainability requirements.
Aug 01, 2022
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Washington Post
The quest to expand composting in New York City.
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WGBH
Boston kicks off curbside organics pilot with 10K households and a waitlist with thousands more.
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KPBS
San Diego is still a long way from composting residential food scraps, due in part to truck shipment delays.
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WBRZ
Driver ticketed after pinning collection worker against garbage truck in Louisiana.
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News 5 Cleveland
42K households have signed up for Cleveland’s restarted recycling program, city will extended registration deadline.
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Pensacola News Journal
Judge denies motion by Adams Sanitation challenging Santa Rosa County, Florida, franchising requirement.
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