Public Agencies

The town received $180,000 toward the purchase of two new automated trash collection trucks.

Shanghai is a testing ground for a new trash separation policy that the Chinese government eventually hopes to roll out across the rest of the country.

The winners will be recognized at WASTECON 2019 in Phoenix.

DTSC found that Strategic Materials mismanaged batteries mixed in with the glass sorted from curbside recycling.

The contract is for weekly curbside collection of yard waste on regular pickup days during peak periods in the spring and fall.

The county’s solid waste authority explained it is continuing to reassess its residential recycling program since terminating its previous contract.

The county was on the hunt for a new market for plastic materials when its only plastics vendor terminated its contracts.

The containers—five headed back to Hong Kong and two to France—housed a combination of trash, plastic waste and hazardous materials.

Connecticut consumers will pay a 10-cent tax on all single-use plastic bags, while Delaware’s governor signed legislation to ban plastic bags.

A $50,000 grant will help the county purchase and install a densifier, finish a polystyrene processing center build-out, collect materials and focus on outreach.