Public Utilities, Waste Management
December 14, 2023
Via: Waste360As we approach 2024, the rearview mirror is finally coming into focus. Barring a big December, forecasted fires are 381 heading into the last month of the year. The good news is the number is trending down from the 390 […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
June 1, 2023
Via: Waste360Six months ago, Colorado’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act put a 10-cent fee statewide on single-use plastics. Since, early data suggests the change is helping local recycling centers. Eco-Cycle, a center in Colorado for hard-to-recycle materials, has been pushing for a […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
August 10, 2022
Via: Waste360Australia’s federal government recently announced a $13 million project to fund a composting facility large enough to process food and garden waste in Canberra, the nation’s capital. The project with collect waste from 5,000 households and is expected to divert […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
June 20, 2022
Via: Waste360Today New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed S.B. 367 into law, which will help create a more circular economy for plastics while attracting new jobs to the state. New Hampshire is the 19th state since 2017—and the first New England […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
November 13, 2019
Via: Waste360Berk Calli, a robotics scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, is leading a team of eight researchers at three universities on a project to develop robotics technology that could help make recycling facilities safer, cleaner and more efficient. […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
November 5, 2019
Via: Waste360Researchers at London-based Circular Energy Storage (CES) have estimated that in 2030, recycling facilities could recover 125,000 tons of lithium, 35,000 tons of cobalt and 86,000 tons of nickel, according to a pv magazine report. The report also notes that […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
March 8, 2019
Via: Waste360The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) recently released a report that calls for the development of in-state recycling facilities, new technologies and development of new markets due to the collapse of the statewide market for recyclables. CCM has called for […]