Recycling

Recycling Partnership Awards Largest Recycling Cart Grant to the City of Omaha

Jan 06, 2021

OMAHA – The Recycling Partnership awarded its largest recycling cart grant in its six-year history to the City of Omaha, expanding recycling capacity to nearly half of one million residents with the delivery of new 96-gallon recycling carts that...

Maura Dougherty, PE, Joins SCS Engineers' Solid Waste Engineering Practice

Jan 06, 2021

Pleasanton, Calif. – SCS Engineers announces that Maura Dougherty is joining the firm's Southwest Business Unit as a Senior Project Manager in the solid waste engineering practice. Dougherty will lead solid waste management engineering design...

KFC and Pizza Hut Launch New Plastic Reduction Initiatives in China

Jan 06, 2021

SHANGHAI -- Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the "Company" or "Yum China",NYSE: YUMC and HKEX: 9987) announced that it has launched a series of plastic reduction and environmentally friendly packaging initiatives across its brands in line with the...

Recycling a "Simple" Solution to Growing Tech Waste Problem

Jan 06, 2021

The proliferation of tech waste continues to pose a dilemma not only for the waste and recycling industry, but for governments and environmentalists who are looking to scale sustainable solutions...

Machinex Commissions New MRF in Marquette County, Mich.

Jan 06, 2021

Machinex is pleased to announce the commissioning last November of a new residential and commercial single stream system at Marquette County, MI. This project is the result of a tight and efficient cooperation between Machinex, Bradley Austin from...

Year-End Round Up – ESG in Focus

Jan 05, 2021

During the course of December 2020, senior management members from most of the publicly-held solid waste companies met with investors, and we sum up trends in their year-end business updates, post reporting third quarter earnings. We also present...

Minimum Recycled Content Needed to Balance Supply and Demand (Commentary)

Jan 05, 2021

Pandemic, along with a host of other pandemic-related words, accounted for most selections for 2020’s word of the year. Which is no surprise given how it’s upended every part of our lives --- work life, social life, family life. For essential...

AMP Robotics Raises $55 Million from XN, Valor Equity Partners, GV and Existing Investors

Jan 05, 2021

DENVER — AMP Robotics Corp. (“AMP”), a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics for the waste industry, has raised $55 million in corporate equity in a Series B financing, led by XN with participation from new investors Valor Equity...

Lakeshore Recycling Systems Acquires Roy Strom Company

Jan 05, 2021

CHICAGO - Lakeshore Recycling Systems (“LRS”), the nation’s seventh-largest privately-held waste and recycling company, today announced its largest acquisition to-date: Maywood, Ill.-based Roy Strom Company (“Roy Strom”), among the most respected...

Secondhand Gift Giving Spiked this Holiday Season

Jan 05, 2021

Every year brings a global increase in the volume of discarded electrical and electronic devices. And, as noted by Decluttr.com, only 27% of this annual e-waste is recycled. The website exists in order to help with this problem, offering customers...

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