MRFs

Over the past 12 months, the waste and recycling industry has experienced 369 reported fires in both the U.S. and Canada. Based on reasonable assumptions, we can extrapolate that 1,800-plus facility fires have occurred in the past 12 months, which...

Recyclables are the single largest export commodity from the United States by weight and by volume, noted Susan Robinson, federal public affairs director and director of public sector services at Waste Management. To put that in context, recycled...

During the last 12 months, I have spoken about China and recycling at a dozen or so webinars and recycling conferences in both the United States and Canada. I’ve also written a number of columns about this situation. Each time, I have made three...

Materials recovery facilities (MRFs) face a variety of challenges today, and handling highly contaminated material coming into MRFs is at the top of the list. That challenge has intensified amid the implementation of China’s waste import...

GFL Environmental Inc. (GFL) and Waste Industries announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement in a transaction that values Waste Industries at a total enterprise value of $2.825 billion (approximately C$3.65 billion). The...

Waste-to-energy (WTE) solutions, the concept of a circular economy, end-of-life product design and potential opportunities to help combat contamination and improve safety across the industry are just some of the topics discussed during the 2018...

Over the past 12 months, the waste and recycling industry has experienced 366 reported fires in both the U.S. and Canada. Based on reasonable assumptions, we can extrapolate that 1,800-plus facility fires have occurred in the past 12 months, which...