NWRA is dedicated to promoting the safety of our industry’s workers. It’s no secret that collection workers have a considerable rate of workplace injury and death, often due to the careless driving of others. NWRA’s Slow Down to Get Around progra...

Severe weather can disrupt waste and recycling efforts. But most waste and recycling operators have developed a range of strategies to meet the challenges such conditions can present for collection and landfills...

In my high school driver’s education class, seat belt use was mandatory. After a lifetime of never wearing a seat belt, this requirement was not welcome—it chafed and I felt hemmed in. Back then, no one wore seat belts. Hordes of us would pile in...

Large and small waste companies compete on a daily basis for customers. The private sector and the public sector often disagree over who gets to decide where waste is disposed and the rules governing collection, processing, and disposal. However...

Meet Sais Singh, operations supervisor with Republic Services in Bellevue, Wash. Sais, who has been in the waste industry for more than two years, recently earned the Certified Safe Driver credential offered by the National Waste & Recycling Asso...