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Rehrig Pacific Contributes to the Recovery of Over 1.4 Billion Pounds of Bulky Rigid Plastics with the Envirocore Cart

Waste Connections Exceeds Expectations in Q2 2020 Despite Pandemic-Related Revenue Declines – while M&A Strategy Remains Robust

Aug 07, 2020

Republic Services Reports Strong Q2 Despite Pandemic Effects, Reinstates Guidance

Aug 07, 2020

Rumpke, Archaea Energy Break Ground on Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plant at Indiana Landfill

Aug 07, 2020

Cuts to NYC Sanitation Department Budget Creates Waste Pileup

Aug 07, 2020

Republic Settles ESOP Lawsuit Related to Purchase of Rainbow Disposal

Aug 07, 2020

CT’s Waste: The States Next Public Health Crisis

Aug 07, 2020

Fast Company Names Matanya Horowitz One of the Most Creative People in Business

Aug 06, 2020

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Philadelphia Waste Worker Raising Money for PPE on Instagram

Aug 06, 2020

A Philadelphia city sanitation worker’s online campaign to raise money to buy personal protective equipment for his department is going...

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July 2020 Fire Report: No Fireworks, No Problems and a Conversation with Chris “Mr. Nice Guy” Hawn!

Aug 06, 2020

If someone would have asked me to forecast the number of fire incidents we would experience for the month of...

Waste Pro First to Join Autocar in Utilizing New Driver Safety Tech

Jul 28, 2020

LONGWOOD, FL – July 27, 2020 – Waste Pro, in collaboration with Autocar Trucks, will lead the industry in...

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Republic Services Donates 100,000 Masks to Essential Service Providers

Jul 10, 2020

PPE Will Support the Work of Healthcare Workers at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and First Responders in Rutherford County, Tenn.

June 2020 Fire Report: 34 Reported Incidents, 17 Successfully Eliminated by Fire Rover

Jul 09, 2020

June is always a busy month for fires in waste and recycling facilities. June officially begins the “summertime spike” that we have been experiencing since I began tracking fire incidents in 2016...

Rubicon Provides Essential Personal Protective Equipment for Frontline Workers

Jul 02, 2020

Atlanta, Georgia, July 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rubicon, a software company that provides smart waste and recycling solutions to businesses and governments worldwide, today announced that they will be providing protective masks to their...

Health Experts Issue a Statement Addressing Safety of Reuse and Refill Systems During COVID-19 Pandemic

Jun 23, 2020

A consortium of more than 100 health experts from around the world signed a statement on Monday saying that, even during this time of COVID-19, “reusable systems can be used safely by employing basic hygiene.” The signatories included...

COVID Rates Significantly Lower for Solid Waste Collection/Facility Workers

Jun 10, 2020

Thankfully, the rate of increase of COVID cases is slowing. Nonetheless, as of early June, according to the CDC, more than...

May 2020 Fire Report: A Conversation with Thermography Fire Expert Andy Starnes

Jun 05, 2020

May started with doom and gloom that we were never going to get out of this pandemic. But as the weeks went on, we started to...

NWRA Applauds Senate Recycling Caucus Chairs for Urging Priority Access to PPE for Waste and Recycling Workers

Jun 04, 2020

Arlington, VA – The National Waster & Recycling Association (NWRA) applauds Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and John Boozman (R-AR)...

OSHA Adopts Two Revised Policies Surrounding COVID-19

Jun 04, 2020

Due to COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) adopted two revised policies for enforcing its requirements...

CDC Issues Safety Fact Sheet for Waste Collection Industry at Request of NWRA

May 11, 2020

At the request of the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety (NIOSH) published a fact sheet providing important information to keep waste...

April 2020 Fire Report: How & Why Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Fail, Insight from the Jedi Master of Lithium Power!

May 05, 2020

April 2020 will go down as one of the longest months on record. I think we all can agree that this April dragged out for obvious reasons. ...

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