At this week’s Virtual SWANApalooza 2020, hosted by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), one of the keynote sessions addressed “Legislation and Policies Needed to Reach Zero Waste to Landfill.”
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Home improvement retailer, Lowe’s Canada, is focused on diverting dangerous products from landfills.
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In both the U.S. and Europe “incinerators are becoming the most viable option for many municipalities to deal with much of their garbage.” This is partly due to the challenges associated with recycling coupled with the fact that many landfills are...
The first deadline laid out in California’s SB 1383 is looming: 50 percent diversion of organics from landfill by 2022; by 2025, Californians must divert 75 percent of their organics.
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A county in south-central Colorado recently installed surveillance cameras to ID people who dump trash illegally...
Located on Lake Michigan at the northern edge of Illinois but part of the metropolitan area known as Chicagoland, the village...
The Indiana Recycling Coalition (IRC) has released the results of a study on the recycling infrastructure of a 10-county region...
Joseph Wallace, of Vernon, New Jersey built an illegal dump on his property. The eye sore is a seven-story mountain of trash...
Did you know that a garbage truck filled with clothes is dumped at a landfill every two minutes in the U.S....
In our latest episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Ian Rosenberger, founder & CEO of First Mile and Day Owl.
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