Some cities are closing recycling plants. Others are ending curbside pickup. For recycling to be sustainable, consumers must learn to sort their trash better. Ever since cities began offering curbside recycling programs, skeptics have joked about how it all ends up going to the same place as the garbage. In Franklin, N.H., that’s actually true. … More Under China’s New Rules, U.S. Recycling Suffers
It’s one of those headlines you can’t ignore: “People Are Living Inside Landfills as the World Drowns in its Own Trash.” The Huffington Post recently published an in-depth report about Bantar Gebang, Indonesia’s largest landfill, and the villages that are crammed against its compressed trash mounds. As many as 3,000 families live within the footprint … More Families Living Inside Indonesia’s Largest Landfill
Over the past several months, a number of solid waste and recycling industry reports have been released from varied sources. In this post, WIH Resource Group combines highlights from all of them. Recent Forecast by the World Bank In late September, the World Bank Group released a report entitled “What a Waste 2.0: A Global … More Spotlight: Summary of Recent Solid Waste and Recycling Industry Reports
Are you up to speed on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z245 policies for your operations? If you are in the solid waste & recycling industries – collections & compactors, transfer stations, landfills, MRFs and / or involved in Safety, you need to know them. ANSI Z245 standards are national industry standards for waste … More ANSI Z245 Standards for the Waste & Recycling Industries – You Need to Know These
Operation Safe Driver Week, a safety initiative of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), aims to call attention to driver behaviors, the main cause of crashes, and combat those behaviors through heightened traffic safety enforcement and educational outreach. Efforts like this are especially important in the waste and recycling industry, which is regularly listed as … More 2018 Operation Safe Driver Week Results from Commerical Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA)
Waste Management Safety Training for Everyone: How to Create a Safety Program for Customers and Members of the Public … More Waste Management Safety Training for Everyone: How to Create a Safety Program for Customers and Members of the Public
Nearly half of landfills today are privately owned, with industry controlling 85 to 90 percent of permitted capacity. Increasingly, more municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are becoming privatized, now controlling the bulk of waste in the U.S. Today, about half of them are privately owned, with industry controlling 85 to 90 percent of permitted capacity, … More Why Some Landfills are Becoming Privatized, While Others Remain Public
