Silver Spring, MD – The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) is proud to support Safe + Sound Week, August 10 – 16. This nationwide event held each August recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers...

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. ...

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

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...

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...

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...

Thankfully, the rate of increase of COVID cases is slowing.  Nonetheless, as of early June, according to the CDC, more than twenty thousand new COVID cases are still occurring daily across the U.S. and the death rate is more than 1,000 per day. As...

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 see a light at the end of the tunnel. In May, many “non-essential” businesses started reopening, joining their waste and...