What We're Reading: Page 254
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Jan 09, 2019
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
Rural Recycling Hit Hard by Shifting Scrap Market
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Resource Recycling News
China's permit move is good news for fiber exporters
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Politico
Council bill would give city agency more muscle on 'sham' private carter unions
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Plastics News
Real sustainability can improve plastics' image without sacrificing profitability
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Lakeshore Recycling Systems
LRS Acquires Commercial Waste, Recycling Routes From Molenhouse Enterprises
Jan 08, 2019
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The Washington Post
Court orders EPA to release Andrew Wheeler’s contacts with outside groups within 10 months
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St. Louis Public Radio
Residents, Workers Near Bridgeton Landfill Grill Missouri Health Officials About Harmful Odors
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Waste360
Industry Experts Provide 2018 Highlights, 2019 Predictions (Part One)
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Recycling Today
RISI China Conference: Big changes to consider
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The Guardian
The answer to plastic pollution is to not create waste in the first place
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Supply Chain Dive
New shoe brand to source car tires, plastic bottles for footwear
Jan 07, 2019
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Houston Chronicle
Can sputtering recycling market find a second life?
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The Christian Science Monitor
China gets tough on US recyclables. How one Maine town is fighting back.
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PR Newswire
Covanta Begins Construction of Total Ash Processing System
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The Press Democrat
5 years after Sonoma County ban, new era of plastic bags poses a growing waste problem
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RTV6
Recycle Force connects those leaving Indiana prisons with job skills
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USA Today
'Government Shutdown Litter Patrol': Dad-daughter duo tackle trash in the Smokies
Jan 04, 2019
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Climate Liability News
Study: Businesses vastly underestimate climate impacts, costs
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Fast Company
There’s only one year left to hit these 2020 environmental pledges
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Lexington Herald Leader
Pike County’s landfill is filling up fast, and there’s no money set aside to expand
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As trash fills the seas, Missouri lawmaker wants to block government crackdowns on plastic
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BBC
Recycling: Where is the plastic waste mountain?
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Channel NewsAsia
A made-in-Singapore solution to the world's plastic waste problem
Jan 03, 2019
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WFMZ
County judge won't halt new Emmaus garbage contract
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WCNC
Future of recycling in limbo in the Carolinas
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Carroll County Times
Nearly two months in, New Windsor pay-as-you-throw trash program sees drop in solid waste, rise in recycling
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ecoRI News
R.I.'s Plastics Task Force Focused on Statewide Bag Ban
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The Guardian
One person’s recycling won’t stop climate change in itself. We must act collectively
Jan 02, 2019
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Los Angeles Times
How mountains of U.S. plastic waste ended up in Malaysia, broken down by workers for $10 a day
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ProPublica
How the Trash Industry Worked Overtime Trying to Thwart New York City’s Reform Plans
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CNN
Trash, toilet odor build at national parks amid government shutdown
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The People's Tribune
Pike County Commissioners Enter Into New Host Fee Agreement With Eagle Ridge Landfill
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Portland Press Herald
Maine composting companies forced to look elsewhere for raw material
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The New York Times
President Trump’s Retreat on the Environment Is Affecting Communities Across America
Dec 21, 2018
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CGTN
China changes impact US holiday recycling
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KOIN
Metro scraps deal for food waste
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Community Impact Newspaper
Rep. Ed Thompson, R-Pearland, writing legislation for tougher landfill oversight
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Grocery Dive
Petition targets Trader Joe's for excessive plastic packaging
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Houston Chronicle
The hazardous waste problem U.S. cities don't know they have
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Gotham Gazette
Imagining an ‘Asset Light’ Sanitation Department