DALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges response crews and residents in areas affected by Hurricane Ida to recognize the hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees...

Arlington, VA –  The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) sent a letter to city and county officials around the country, urging them to vaccinate their workers against COVID-19 and the Delta variant. On August 23, 2021, the U.S. Food and...

Oakland—In addition to the requirements of the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) and as a best practice, Cal/OSHA encourages employers and workers to follow the recent update from the California Department of Public Health ...

Arlington, VA – The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) announced today that it is requiring all its employees to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. This announcement comes as NWRA encourages those working in the waste and...

In March 2020, as the world was shutting down in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the waste and recycling industry found out that the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) did not list solid...

Crews rushed to the Bristow Tire Recycling Plant in the early morning hours on Monday. The fire department is no stranger to this facility located in Bristow, Okla. This is the third time the plant has caught fire...

Intermountain Regional Landfill is a small, rural site off the beaten path in Fairfield, UT. So, when the tipping face caught fire in the middle of a weekend night, Brian Alba, the facility’s operations manager, learned about it from a sheriff who...

Emergency responders continued an extended cleanup of a landfill fire that began early Monday in Dublin, Va...

Reminder issued in response to Long Island fatality