What We're Reading: Page 71
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
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.
Feb 28, 2024
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Bloomberg Law
EPA announces final $1B to clean up hazardous waste sites.
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The Palm Beach Post
New EPA emission rules could force Palm Beach County, Florida, to close its WTE plants, authority says.
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WLBT
Expiration of Richard’s Disposal’s emergency collection contract without replacement looms in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Fox 17
Rutherford County, Tennessee, breaks ground on crucial transfer station amid looming trash crisis.
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Baltimore Sun
After historic fine, air pollution continues at South Baltimore medical waste incinerator.
Feb 27, 2024
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NBC Connecticut
Residents in Bristol, Connecticut, complain to Covanta about ongoing facility noise.
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WFMJ
Local residents raise concerns about West Point Renewables landfill proposal in Ohio.
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Windsor Star
Councilors in Windsor, Ontario, vote to end alley trash pickup in 2025.
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WSLS
Star City Compost creates the first composting company in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley.
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ESG Dive
SEC to scrap scope 3 reporting from climate disclosure rule: Reuters.
Feb 26, 2024
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WAPT
Mississippi fines city of Jackson after trash piled up during 2023 garbage contract dispute.
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MLive
Huge landfill tipping fee spike pitched to curb out-of-state trash in Michigan.
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New Haven Register
New Haven’s electric garbage trucks, likely Connecticut’s first, to be delivered by Battle Motors soon.
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KETV
Droppett opens recycling redemption center in Glenwood, Iowa.
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The Birmingham Times
Glass Half Full to bring glass recycling back to Birmingham, Alabama, neighborhoods next month.
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The Press-Republican
Compost for Good is reimagining waste with Vermont towns, businesses.
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