What We're Reading: Page 3
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Mar 08, 2024
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MIlwaukee Journal Sentinel
PFAS is piling up in our trash. Can we keep it contained?
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NBC Connecticut
Connecticut audit questions executive severance at now closed MIRA waste facility.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Man who handled bribe for official in San Francisco Recology corruption scandal sentenced to prison time.
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BioCycle
Agromin spends years on permits for grant-supported food waste composting facility in California.
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Waste Today
Colorado-based Apex Waste Solutions reports improvements from camera-based service verification.
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Missouri Independent
U.S. Senate approves compensation for St. Louis nuclear waste exposures.
Mar 07, 2024
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ESG Dive
SEC approves final climate disclosure rule, starts compliance countdown.
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Bangor Daily News
Orrington, Maine, trash plant receives $650K in funding days after it’s sold again.
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DeSmog
Why the oil and chemical lobby is taking aim at New York’s plastic waste bill.
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Coral Springs Talk
Coastal Waste & Recycling to replace Waste Pro as hauler in Coral Springs, Florida.
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KLCC
Local trash hauling companies threaten to sue Lane County, Oregon, over planned recycling, garbage diversion facility.
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Waste Today
Tribal group receives SWIFR grant to fund recycling center in California.
Mar 06, 2024
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Missouri Independent
Bill targeting controversial Kansas City landfill clears initial Missouri House vote.
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Waste Today
Washington Teamsters ratify WM contract.
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Hartford Courant
Blue Earth Compost, TerraCycle team up to recycle the ‘unrecyclable’ in Connecticut.
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KETK
East Texas jurisdictions awarded grants for waste minimization.
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Patch
Riverside County, California, waste hauler management reviewed in county-wide audit.
Mar 05, 2024
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Bloomberg Law
California weighs producer liability for household hazardous waste.
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Waste Today
Tennessee accepting solid waste management grant applications.
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The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore to resume weekly curbside recycling this week.
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The Spokesman-Review
The majority of marijuana waste in Washington ends up in the landfill. New legislation aims to redirect it.
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WAPT
Jackson, Mississipi, mayor says committee has chosen Richard’s Disposal for new garbage collection contract.
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KRCG 13
Columbia, Missouri, carries out first automated trash collection for roll carts.
Mar 04, 2024
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Tennessee Lookout
Bipartisan Tennessee bill would bring recycling to all homes, be paid for by private business.
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Newport Dispatch
Significant leachate leak reported at Casella’s Coventry landfill in Vermont, nearly 9,000 gallons released.
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Foster’s Daily Democrat
Rochester, New Hampshire, lays out $1M per year plan for eventual closure of WM’s Turnkey Landfill.
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The New York Times
The absurd problem of New York City’s trash bags.
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Axios Twin Cities
St. Paul, Minnesota, plans another shakeup of garbage collection services.
Mar 01, 2024
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The New York Times
New York City begins enforcing commercial containerization rule.
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Calgary Herald
GFL opens new 70K-square-foot MRF in Calgary, Alberta.
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Chicago Sun-Times
LRS scraps Chicago barge transfer plan following EPA decision to investigate canal contamination.
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Packaging Dive
U.S. Plastics Pact touts progress toward 2025 targets and initiative’s ‘evolution’
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The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore composting group that works with youth ordered to vacate Filbert Street Garden it has called home for a decade.
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FFXnow
Fairfax County, Virginia, seeks to restrict mowing at Lorton landfill during bird nesting season.
Feb 29, 2024
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Reuters
Harmful waste generation set to jump, U.N. warns.
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Portland Press Herald
Maine House approves commercial food waste recycling mandate.
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Honolulu Civil Beat
Privately owned rock quarry in Maui, Hawai’i, chosen as permanent dump site for Lahaina fire debris.
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WFRV
Lind, Wisconsin, supervisors vote against controversial waste digester project from Vanguard Renewables.
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Finger Lakes Times
Debate over future of Ontario County Landfill in New York operated by Casella to ramp up this spring.