What We're Reading: Page 119
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Feb 15, 2022
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The Maine Monitor
Waste Management's Crossroads Landfill expansion in Maine advances after denial of environmental group's appeal.
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New York Post
New York City fires 40 sanitation workers for not meeting municipal workforce vaccination requirements.
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Main Street Nashville
Just weeks after Nashville resumed curbside recycling, Red River Waste Services has fallen behind on collection again and local government stepping in to help.
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San Francisco Chronicle
California bill introduced that would limit single-use plastic packaging for e-commerce shipments starting in 2024.
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Waste360
Chaz Miller: Companies, including Coca-Cola, need to be more forthright about how they will achieve their goals.
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CNN
U.S. DOE aims to build new facility to recycle minerals such as nickel and cobalt from coal ash.
Feb 14, 2022
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CBS News
U.S. and France back calls for U.N. plastics treaty, with negotiations set to begin soon.
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Reuters
Major French shipping firm CMA CGM will stop transporting plastic scrap by June in effort to limit exports.
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco officials have questions about Recology's $200M property sale to Amazon, as they investigate possibility of further ratepayer reimbursements.
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WDSU
Some local residents upset about lack of community input in recent extension of Empire Services' collection contract in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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First Coast News
Jacksonville, Florida, is recycling about 85% less material since shifting to drop-off sites, but quality is much higher.
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Transport Topics
Trucking fleets find that raising pay alone doesn't necessarily solve driver hiring challenges.
Feb 11, 2022
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Reuters
Coca-Cola, criticized for plastic pollution, pledges 25% reusable packaging by 2030.
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KLTV
All American Disposal Service appears to have gone out of business in Texas, leaving thousands of customers with missed pickups.
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Daily Camera
Colorado's Eco-Cycle set to introduce nation's first electric commercial compost truck to its fleet, partnering with Mack.
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Spectrum News 1
California legislation would remove recycling credits for solid waste incineration, and classify it as disposal, amid pressure to close state's last two facilities.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Co-owner of Beck's Refuse Service in Pennsylvania pleads guilty to filing false income tax return.
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Adweek
Pete Davidson gets tackled in Hellmann's Super Bowl ad about food waste.
Feb 10, 2022
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My Central Jersey
Owner of New Jersey's Bridgewater Disposal killed after being pinned by truck's hydraulic arm.
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Fingerlakes1.com
Waste Connections spent $282K to help flip Seneca Falls Town Board in New York, leading to election of candidates that tipped the scales for favorable vote on landfill permit.
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Washington City Paper
Council members press DC DPW on service issues and leadership turnover, with one calling for a change to the 'culture and face of this agency.'
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KPBS
San Diego mayor announces food waste reduction and organics recycling plans, as part of climate goal update and SB 1383 compliance.
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Erie News Now
First municipality in Erie County, Pennsylvania, launches a food scrap drop-off pilot in partnership with Conservation Compost.
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CFO Dive
Few companies tie CFO compensation to ESG performance.
Feb 09, 2022
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Philadelphia Business Journal
WM acquires property in Pennsylvania as part of $100M landfill expansion plans.
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The Columbus Dispatch
Rumpke unveiled plans for a high-tech $50M recycling resource center in Columbus, Ohio, which it says will be the fifth-largest recycling facility in the U.S.
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S&P Global Platts
The city of Houston, MRF operator FCC, LyondellBasell and ExxonMobil are working together to expand used plastic collection to feed mechanical and chemical recycling efforts.
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Resource Recycling
A national bottle bill, with more moderate language than the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act, is on track to be introduced in Congress by mid-March.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia Senate rejects nomination of Andrew Wheeler, former EPA administrator, as secretary of natural resources.
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Oregon Live
An Oregon bill seeks to create a mattress recycling program that would be funded by fees added to consumers' mattress purchases.
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Reuters
U.S. EPA names Oregon lawyer to lead environmental justice efforts.
Feb 08, 2022
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The Washington Post
Negotiations set to begin on potential UN plastics treaty, described as 'most ambitious round of climate diplomacy since the 2015 Paris agreement.'
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Gotham Gazette
The future of NYC trash, with City Council Sanitation Chair Sandy Nurse
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Maine Public
Bill to limit import of C&D material in Maine passes out of committee. Casella and ReSource raise concerns about financial effects.
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Knox News
Knoxville, Tennessee, starts food scrap dropoff pilot for residents and restaurants. Material to be composted by nonprofit BattleField Farm, with support from state DEC.
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WJCT
City Council in Jacksonville, Florida, forms committee to assess waste issues. Labor, recycling restart, residential rates and new transfer station siting among its priorities.
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The Boston Globe
David Cash, former MassDEP commissioner, selected as EPA Region 1 administrator.
Feb 07, 2022
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MarketWatch
Air Liquide announces plans for 'largest biomethane production unit in the world,' located at Waste Connections site in Illinois.
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Waste Today
FCC Environmental begins collection contract in Hillsborough County, Florida, estimated to be worth at least $280M.
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Chickasaw Journal
Houston, Mississippi, selects Waste Connections over Waste Management for new collection contract, following exit of RES.
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WTSP
Polk County, Florida, sees complaints about FCC collection service drop 62% in past month, but still offering self-haul option.
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azfamily.com
Phoenix expecting more waste and recycling revenue this year, after previously raising rates, and has a range of plans for how to use it.
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Scientific American
New research finds recycled lithium-ion batteries can perform better than new ones.
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