What We’re Reading: Page 290
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Jun 21, 2017
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WRBL
Sanitation workers protest proposed pay changes
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KRQE News 13
Leaking city garbage trucks create a smelly headache for downtown business owners
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Forbes
A recycling entrepreneur has been sentenced to 15 months in prison
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Business Insider
Here’s how Tesla, Uber, and Google are trying to revolutionize the trucking industry
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Brooklyn Daily
What the truck! Garbage hauler flips fellow four-wheeler
Jun 20, 2017
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The Guardian
Gods of garbage – in pictures
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Global Times
Chinese-led waste-to-energy project to turn Ethiopia’s biggest dump into economic driver
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Pittsburgh Business Times
Thread lands first nonfabric customer as HP launches ink cartridges made from recycled plastic bottles
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Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Touch-A-Truck brings family happiness on Father’s Day weekend
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Grub Street
Ikea vows to cut is food waste in half by 2020
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Resource Magazine
Plan unveiled for London to become a world-leading circular economy
Jun 19, 2017
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The Washington Post
Scott Pruitt vows to speed the nation’s Superfund cleanups. Communities wonder how.
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The Wall Street Journal
Can food waste save the world?
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DNAinfo
This Chicago school keeps 90% of its lunch trash out of the landfill
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Edie
Veolia rolls out national in store coffee cup recycling scheme
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The Mercury News
Recycling rates decline as California recyclers shutter
Jun 16, 2017
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Recycling International
Veolia adds to its South Pole recycling services
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Plastics News
How ‘bag responsibly’ campaigns could help plastics industry sustainability
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TC Palm
Waste Management releases rehabilitated eagle
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Twin Cities Daily Planet
Settlement with Northern Metal Recycling offers no reparations for Northside community
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Chicago Tonight
Chicago Restaurants Ditch Disposable Straws for a Day to Cut Plastic Waste
Jun 15, 2017
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WNCN
NC boy with autism befriends garbage truck driver: ‘He brightens my day’
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YourErie
Garbage truck slams into building
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Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore’s trash wheels continue to draw international attention
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Marketing Dive
The Economist expands experiential strategy with more branded food trucks
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The Wall Street Journal
Cleaning Up the Superfund Mess
Jun 14, 2017
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Worcester News
Are fidget spinners a landfill ticking time bomb?
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Star Tribune
‘Wish-cycling’ headaches spur recyclers to help people toss the right materials
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Quartz
Another cost of Brexit: UK waste companies are paying more for Europe to treat their trash
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Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore’s trash wheels continue to draw international attention
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Motherboard
The right to repair movement is forcing Apple to change
Jun 13, 2017
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Plastics News
ACC: UN forum too focused on plastic bans, not enough on waste management
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The Hill
Why is President Trump stifling investment in recycling?
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Waste Management World
Covanta invests in NJ youth science program
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AOL News
China busts a group recycling used medical supplies and selling the plastic back to factories
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VOA News
Ethiopia trash landslide victims receive compensation