Category: Public Utilities

June 14, 2019

Three years after removing glass from its acceptable recycling list, Hancock County Ohio Solid Waste Management District (SWMD) resumes its glass recycling program. “When glass was dropped three years ago, residents were not happy with the decision. Getting glass back […]

June 13, 2019

A ‘milestone’ electric thermal energy storage system operated by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is now operational. The heat storage facility is located in Hamburg-Altenwerder in Germany and contains around 1000 tonnes of volcanic rock as an energy storage medium. It […]

June 12, 2019

Commissioners for the city of Orlando, Fla., have signed off on a ban of single-use plastics and polystyrene products at venues and parks. Orlando and its contractors will no longer be able to use items such as plastic straws, cutlery, […]

June 11, 2019

A growing trash and vermin problem in downtown Los Angeles has prompted Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to say that blaming the homeless community is misplaced. According to a CBS Los Angeles report, back in December, a pest control company […]

June 11, 2019

Circulate Capital, an investment management firm dedicated to incubating and financing companies and infrastructure that prevent ocean plastic in South and Southeast Asia (SSEA), announced a blended finance partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to combat ocean […]

June 10, 2019

Canada’s government is looking to ban single-use plastics beginning in 2021, according to a CBC News report. The full list of plastics to be banned by the federal government will follow the model chosen by the European Union, which voted […]

June 10, 2019

The Global E-waste Statistics Partnership, of which the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a founding member, recently launched globalewaste.org, an open source portal that visualizes electronic waste (e-waste) data and statistics globally, by region and by country, for policymakers, industry, […]

June 7, 2019

Waste Pro USA, Inc., a regional privately held provider of non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services, announced that it has completed the sale of the $46,515,000 Florida Development Finance Corporation (FDFC) Solid Waste Disposal Revenue Bonds, Series 2019. […]

June 6, 2019

Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson’s (D-Santa Barbara, Calif.) legislation to combat tobacco waste in the oceans, beaches and other waterways by establishing a comprehensive tobacco waste reduction program passed off the Senate floor recently in a 25 to 9 vote. Cigarette butts […]

June 5, 2019

The Omaha, Neb., City Council rejected Mayor Jean Stothert’s trash contract “compromise” on June 4, as council members still had too many unanswered questions and too many residents were still unhappy with the multimillion-dollar bid. According to a KETV ABC […]