Tag: BUSINESS OPERATIONS

January 28, 2020

TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Russellville, Ark.-based Denali Water Solutions from the company’s management and The Firmament Group. The transaction is expected […]

April 15, 2019

Houston-based Waste Management, Inc., North America’s largest environmental solutions company, just announced that it will buy Ponte Vedra, Fla.-based Advanced Disposal Services for a total of $4.9 billion. Under the agreement, a subsidiary of Waste Management will acquire all outstanding […]

February 5, 2019

A recycler in Northeast Tennessee announced its plans to close its operations in March. According to a Recycling Today report, Tri City Waste Paper Co. Inc. in Kingsport, Tenn., also announced it will stop taking recyclables on February 15. Tri […]

January 8, 2019

The staff at Natural Habitat Adventures (Nat Hab) returned from the holidays on January 4, 2019, to a surprise: 85 Propella 7-Speed eBikes—a company-wide holiday gift—filled the cubicles of the company’s Boulder, Colo., office. The eBikes, which retail at $1,299 […]

December 17, 2018

The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) issued the following statement after signing a memorandum of understanding with the Michigan Waste and Recycling Association (MWRA) with quotes from NWRA President and CEO Darrell Smith, MWRA President Kevin Kendall and the […]

October 26, 2018

Back in June, two rental property owners filed a class action lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over RecycLA, the city’s franchised waste and recycling collection program. The owners claimed that the program, which was implemented last year, violates […]

October 9, 2018

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a UFO-like light installation that tracks pieces of space waste in real time. Creators of the live installation used real-time data provided by tracking services to point green columns of light directly at space […]

October 4, 2018

Organic Valley, a cooperative of organic farmers, just announced the details of the community solar partnership it launched last year. The project enables Organic Valley to share the benefits of solar energy with its rural neighbors and become the largest […]

September 24, 2018

Without urgent action, global waste will increase by 70 percent on current levels by 2050, according to World Bank Group’s new report, “What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050.” Driven by rapid urbanization and […]

September 21, 2018

Sanitation Salvage, the trash removal company whose operating license was recently suspended after a series of dangerous events, announced it wants to continue providing services to the community. The New York City Business Integrity Commission (BIC) suspended Sanitation Salvage’s business […]

September 18, 2018

Increasingly, more municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are becoming privatized, now controlling the bulk of waste in the U.S. Today, about half of them are privately owned, with industry controlling 85 to 90 percent of permitted capacity, estimates Michael E. […]

July 12, 2018

In response to China’s waste import ban and contamination standard, Penn Waste has announced new recycling guidelines for its customers in Pennsylvania. The guidelines, which went into effect on July 1, state that only clean and dry newspaper and dry […]

June 12, 2018

Evan Lutz, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Hungry Harvest, believes socially conscious business has the power to end food waste and have a real impact on the environment, community and economy. And to help prove his point, he is working […]

June 7, 2018

The city of Charlotte, N.C., has selected Waste Pro to provide waste and recycling collection services to 127,000 multifamily residential units. Waste Pro will begin servicing the city on July 1. Under Waste Pro’s new three-year contract, it will provide […]

May 18, 2018

In response to China’s recently enacted waste import ban, contamination standard and one-month suspension on all U.S. scrap imports, the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) is calling for the U.S. to improve its poor recycling efforts. In a press release, NRC […]

May 2, 2018

Seville, Spain-based Wellness Telecom, a new technologies company that operates in four specific business lines—telecommunications and IT systems, cloud computing, Smart Cities and research and development (R&D)—has expanded into the U.S. with its Smart Cities solution. Founded in 2008 as […]

April 19, 2018

How humans have dealt with the waste they generate has always been a societal issue; the advent of the history of modern solid waste management rose alongside the expansion of mass production of consumer goods that was integral to the […]

April 18, 2018

A U.S. compactor monitoring company has partnered with a waste and recycling management services provider to deliver more than 200 systems in Canada. The SmartTrash LLC compactor monitoring system, based in Emeryville, Calif., was created by an actual waste management […]

April 16, 2018

WestRock has expanded its recycling capabilities in Louisville, Ky., with the acquisition of QRS Recycling. QRS provides domestic solutions for pre-picked containers, paper and cardboard, metals, single stream and commercial dry waste. WestRock plans to consolidate its existing Louisville recycling […]

April 10, 2018

Meridian Waste Solutions, Inc., an innovative technology and integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services company based in Atlanta, has acquired St. Ann, Mo.-based Environmental Trash Company (ETC). Meridian Waste will now provide waste and recycling services to approximately 2,000 commercial and […]