Category: Waste Management

February 28, 2024

Cyclic Materials, an advanced metals recycling company building a circular supply chain for rare earth elements and other critical metals, has expanded its operations to accept two new feedstock streams: wind turbine generators and MRI machines. Through its strong partnership […]

February 23, 2024

Environmental Solutions Group (ESG), part of Dover (NYSE: DOV) and the leading integrated provider of refuse collection vehicles and equipment, digital fleet technology solutions, waste hauler software, and compaction and recycling solutions, announced the expansion of its Connected Collections® suite […]

February 21, 2024

GFL (NYSE: GFL) (TSX: GFL) released its Q4 and full-year 2023 earnings, citing a record year in solid waste pricing for its continual growth. Solid waste pricing for the full year reached 9.8 percent, the highest in the Vaughan, Canada-based […]

February 20, 2024

California’s two-year-old organic waste reduction initiative faces significant challenges as the state struggles to implement food recycling programs effectively, jeopardizing waste-reduction targets. The initiative aims to mitigate methane emissions by diverting organic materials such as food scraps and yard waste […]

February 20, 2024

About one-third of all food in the United States is thrown away; much of this goes into landfills, where it produces large amounts of planet-warming methane. If this were composted instead, these emissions would shrink, and the process would produce […]

February 16, 2024

After years of frustrations from residents, a Newport, Kentucky recycling plant is being relocated. River Metals Recycling (RMR) reached an agreement to move, and Newport City Commissioner Ken Rechtin said it is “the most significant progress made in quite some […]

February 15, 2024

Houston, Texas is a few weeks into its food waste composting program, and it is seeing a steady increase in participation. Back on January 22, Houston kicked off the composting pilot program in partnership with Zero Waste Houston. The program […]

February 13, 2024

The City of Long Beach has entered into exclusive negotiations with Bioenergy Devco, the North American division of BTS Bioenergy, to construct an organics recycling facility that will recycle food waste, converting it to an organic soil amendment and renewable […]

February 8, 2024

PET to PET Recycling Austria sees little change from 2022 to 2023 as the initiative reports it recycled just over 32,000 tonnes of PET bottles. In 2022, it was reported that the overall tonnage of PET bottles recycled was 32,900, […]

February 2, 2024

The UN Climate Change Conference COP 28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was the largest of its kind. The conference, held from 30 November to 13 December, brought together some 85,000 participants, including more than 150 heads of state and […]

February 1, 2024

A sizeable group of California counties are coming together to sue Elon Musk’s Tesla with claims that the company mishandled hazardous waste at its facilities across the state. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday from 25 California counties, including Los […]

January 30, 2024

How do the varied, fast-evolving biobased polymers infiltrating the market degrade in different real-world settings? And what do stakeholders watching the biopolymers space care most about? These are among a mountain of questions answered in a recent 5 Gyres report. […]

January 24, 2024

It’s no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) has become so commonplace for many of us in our day-to-day lives and most professional settings, being such a transformative force and constantly pushing the boundaries of possibility. As we creep into 2024, […]

January 22, 2024

Mixed construction, demolition sorting, and processing company, GreenWay Recycling, has been named C&D Recycler of the Year. The award for GreenWay Recycling comes from the Construction & Demolition Recycling Association (CDRA) and will be given the award at CDRA’s annual […]

January 19, 2024

Agromin, California’s largest organic waste recycler, received a $10 million grant from CalRecycle’s Organics Grant Program to help communities turn more of their food waste and yard waste into compost. CalRecycle’s Organics Grant Program is a statewide effort to expand […]

January 18, 2024

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Demolition Association have extended their alliance to enhance the safety and well-being of workers in the demolition industry. This renewed five-year collaboration aims to address industry […]

January 17, 2024

New Zealand has awarded a brand development package worth $50,000 to a company working to solve the country’s surplus food problem. Rescued, a social enterprise working on sustainable and suitable solutions for surplus food was named the winner of the […]

January 12, 2024

At its “Deep Dive Energy” event in London, Veolia unveiled a world-first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) innovation that will enable waste collection trucks to power UK homes by feeding back stored energy from their batteries to the grid. UK’s largest waste collection […]

January 10, 2024

The Recycling Partnership, a leading non-governmental organization dedicated to enhancing the efficiency of recycling systems, has released a new report that targeted problematic areas in the U.S. residential recycling system. The report reveals that only 21% of residential recyclables in […]

January 3, 2024

Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, and Envetec Sustainable Technologies Limited (“Envetec”), a pioneering cleantech company dedicated to eradicating the current unsustainable practices of treating regulated medical waste (also referred to as biohazardous or […]