This Week in Waste: Top Stories Jan 22 – Jan 25

#5 - WWETT Show 2024: Day One Highlights

Despite the weather, attendees at WWETT Show 2024 packed the rooms as the first of more than 90 conference sessions took place. The WWETT Show is the most immersive showcase of the latest innovations within the wastewater industry.

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#4 - New Coalition Aims to Catalyze US-European Hydrogen Trade

A new U.S.-based group, the Transatlantic Clean Hydrogen Trade Coalition (H2TC), has joined the quest, aspiring to get more than three million metric tons of low-carbon hydrogen per year to Europe by 2030.  That’s nearly a third of the 10 million metric tons that the European Union aims to import annually by 2030.

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#3 - AI Revolution Shaping the Waste Industry in 2024 and Beyond: Part One

With the future booming right in front of our eyes, I reached out to AI professionals to get their thoughts on how AI will shape our immediate future in general and in the waste industry. Experts from AMP Robotics, Everestlabs, and Clean Robotics shared some insight. Plus, Nicole Sroka, CEO at Mind Moves, who spoke at WasteCon 2023, shared some of her outlook for AI in the next year.

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#2 - Capital Waste Finalizes 11th Acquisition, Adding SC Waste to Regional Lineup

Regional solid waste services provider Capital Waste Services completed its acquisition of South Carolina Waste (SC Waste).

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#1 - New York City Defunds Community Composting, Leaving Few Remaining Groups Scrambling

As the few remaining grassroots programs scramble in search of a plan, Mayor Eric Adams administration is rolling out what DSNY calls the nation’s largest curbside composting program, under its universal curbside collection law. So far Brooklyn and Queens residents receive this service, to be extended to the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island in October 2024.

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