Safety

MIAMI — The Miami-Dade County Department of Solid Waste Management (DSWM) recently received a shipment of 5,000 protective masks from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The shipment of the masks had been coordinated by the...

Great news! After last month’s lowest July in terms of reported fire incidents, we had the lowest level of incidents since 2016 for the month of August. ...

Compology CEO Jason Gates and Michael E. Hoffman, Stifel managing director, discussed how waste is one of the “perfect” industries to incorporate AI.

Solid waste refuse and recyclable material collection ranked as the fifth-deadliest industry in the U.S. in 2018. More recently, while SWANA observed a decrease in fatal incidents early in 2020, it noted a rapid increase in tragic events beginning...

A Philadelphia city sanitation worker’s online campaign to raise money to buy personal protective equipment for his department is going strong and is a quarter of the way toward meeting its goal...

If someone would have asked me to forecast the number of fire incidents we would experience for the month of July, on July 1, I would have said 35 to 40. This is based on historical numbers and the increasing trends we have been experiencing since...

LONGWOOD, FL – July 27, 2020 – Waste Pro, in collaboration with Autocar Trucks, will lead the industry in safeguarding its most valuable asset: drivers. ...