Brockton, Mass. — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has nixed plans for a solid-waste transfer station in Brockton that would receive up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Locally based Champion City Recovery proposed the...

IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE FACT of recycling equipment: despite the strictest adherence to maintenance routines, efforts to keep out any unprocessables and resisting temptation to run machines beyond what is recommended, balers will, in fact, wear out...

Fremont, Calif. -- Having shared the Tri-Cities landfill for decades, Fremont and Newark, Calif., now are beginning a legal battle concerning the location of a future transfer station. In preparation for the closing of Tri-Cities, likely to come...

Linden, N.J. -- According to a spokesman for New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, the state will not support waterfront transfer stations for New York's trash...

IN A STATE AS BIG AS TEXAS, it can be challenging to get five of the state's fastest growing cities to agree on anything, let alone long-term strategies and investments in a solid waste program. The communities have different perspectives on how...

THE BIG APPLE may have bitten off more than it could chew when Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Administration announced eight marine transfer stations (MTS) would be renovated to help service the city's solid waste needs. New York recently discovered...