Introduction In the past several months, journalists in major publications such as Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Mother...
Since 1997, it has been “unlawful to deposit yard waste, including grass clippings and leaves, in a solid waste facility in West Virginia.” This government...
No big surprise here! A survey of mills indicates that quality of one-bin materials are inferior. In North America, a survey of mills’ recovered paper...
We have been reporting on these developments in these cities for the past few months. Within hours of each other the two proposed facilities were...
Maryland House Bill 743 – Yard Waste and Food Residuals Diversion and Infrastructure Task Force, sponsored by Delegate Shane Robinson (District 39), would create a Task...
The national average recycling rate has been holding at just under 35 percent for the past five years, after rapid growth in the 1990s and...
The decline in oil prices and its consequences for recycling as reported recently by The New York Times is not being seen everywhere. Programs and...
Since Second Chance, the non-profit building deconstruction and retail outlet, started with 6 workers it has grown to over 150 employees. The vast majority of...
More than 70 community composters from all over the US gathered in Jacksonville to discuss best practices for community composting.… Read More
Residents and environmentalists said Wednesday they plan to sue a power plant company that is developing a facility in the Fairfield area of Baltimore. The...
The development of ‘Dirty MRFs’ (processing mixed garbage to recover recycable materials) has been stymied by citizen dissent and poor operating performance. Most recently, the...
The Reuse People, the non-profit national network of deconstruction enterprises, has completed the results of the Third National Reuse Contest featuring winners and runner ups...
Amidst all the media talk about the failure of recycling, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency just released a report that underscores the viability and potency...
Here’s what’s in store for our 2016 Best Practices in Community Composting Workshop, hosted by ILSR and BioCycle. … Read More
I think the writers who periodically “trash” recycling as ‘broken’, ‘wasteful’, ‘outweigh the benefits’ are secretly in love with recycling. They write their pieces in...