What We're Reading: Page 70
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Mar 14, 2024
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Packaging Dive
Compostable packaging take-back programs aim to ease consumer burden, boost recovery.
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Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Jackson, Mississippi, mayor releases details of $64M contract proposal with Richard’s Disposal.
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Miami Herald
Activists protesting new Miami-Dade County, Florida, WTE plant kicked out of climate conference.
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BizWest
Compost Queen opens new facility, headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Rome Sentinel
Rome, New York, cancels collection contract with Controlled Waste Systems; Bliss Environmental Services to take over.
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Spectrum News 1
Dane County, Wisconsin, to launch composting project with Purple Cow Organics.
Mar 13, 2024
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WJHL
Pending Virginia state budget includes $26M for mitigation efforts at challenged Bristol landfill.
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CBC News
Ottawa’s $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?
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The Colorado Sun
Plan to drill for oil and gas near Lowry Landfill Superfund site southeast of Denver raises red flags.
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WVTM
St Clair County, Alabama, residents looking to document health effects from landfill fire.
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The Spec
Residents seek timeline for landfill closure in Cayuga, Ontario.
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Packaging Dive
Trade groups and state AGs debate GSA’s approach to minimize single-use plastic purchases.
Mar 12, 2024
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Los Angeles Daily News
State water agency denies expansion of Waste Connections’ Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic, California.
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The Republican Journal
Local authority reports progress but no date for reopening WTE plant in Hampden, Maine.
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WHRO
Facing surge in landfill trash, Hampton Roads, Virginia, waste authority searching for long-term solutions.
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San Francisco Examiner
Republic Services subsidiary yanks bid for San Francisco waste contract following Recology objections.
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King 5
‘We wouldn’t have moved here’: Neighbors want noisy DTG Recycling center in Snohomish, Washington, shut down.
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WJON
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency makes $4.5M in food waste grants available.
Mar 11, 2024
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HR Dve
Texas judge vacates joint employer rule.
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Streetsblog New York City
‘White Whale’: DSNY launches call for European-style curbside bins.
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KSAT
Documents reveal San Antonio, Texas, recycling yard’s history with city code compliance, solid waste recycling contract.
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The Times-Picayune
Judge upholds restraining order preventing subcontractor threat to remove trash bins from New Orleans’ French Quarter.
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Sahan Journal
Bill aiming to expand Minnesota’s electronics recycling draws broad support.
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.
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