The company handles hazardous materials and infectious waste streams daily and manages decontamination responses amid infectious disease outbreaks.

ISRI requests that all recycling operations across the U.S. be designated “essential” to public health and welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic.

NWRA is lauding OSHA’s efforts to provide guidance on managing waste and recycling during the coronavirus pandemic.

Teamsters have requested for the CEOs at Republic Services, Waste Management and Waste Connections to protect employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More batteries are emerging in residential waste streams and causing fires at MRFs.

PegEx has released guidance for the waste management industry handling COVID-19 materials.

Afraid for their own health and safety, solid waste workers in New Jersey are working to ensure their communities remain healthy.

Freedom From Waste is taking extra precautions to protect its workers and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the communities it serves.

SWANA records at least 53 solid waste worker deaths; collection still has highest fatality frequency.

NWRA is requesting that the waste collection industry be exempt from federal HOS regulations during national emergencies.