Engineering and production company Ways2H is commercializing a gasification technology developed by Japan Blue Energy Co. (JBEC) to process waste and extract hydrogen for transportation fuel or for electricity. One project is up and running and...

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...

London-based Greyparrot, which automates the measurement of waste streams using AI-powered computer vision software, announced that it has secured £1.825 million (~$2.2M) in its latest round of seed funding...

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...

Arlington, VA – The National Waster & Recycling Association (NWRA) applauds Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and John Boozman (R-AR), co-chairs of the Senate Recycling Caucus, for sending a letter to Senate leadership urging priority access to personal...

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...

Booneville, MS (May 27, 2020) - On Wednesday, May 13th, New Way Trucks celebrated its first 100 percent Mississippi-made Cobra™ refuse truck at its new manufacturing facility in Northeast Mississippi. Production on the company’s Cobra and Viper™...

Changes in human behavior directly affect waste patterns and there is nothing like a global pandemic to test that theory. These fluctuations in waste can wreak havoc for waste collectors, but having data to direct operational resources is key to...

Landfills are essential, even with the push to divert more would-be-trash and put it to use — and even as alternative means to manage it as trash evolve. Still, even the largest disposal sites are finite, so the industry continually works to find...

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, personal protective equipment (PPE) was a significant part of total waste volume for hospitals, with one study from the American Nurses Association finding that PPE accounted for 43 percent of solid waste from...