According to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s data on municipal solid waste generation and management, an estimated 52.4 percent of yard trimmings were “grasscycled” or...
Scarborough, is a district within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada with a population of 625,000 people. Recently, one thousand residents of Mayfair on the...
Introduction In the past several months, journalists in major publications such as Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Mother...
No big surprise here! A survey of mills indicates that quality of one-bin materials are inferior. In North America, a survey of mills’ recovered paper...
The national average recycling rate has been holding at just under 35 percent for the past five years, after rapid growth in the 1990s and...
The decline in oil prices and its consequences for recycling as reported recently by The New York Times is not being seen everywhere. Programs and...
The development of ‘Dirty MRFs’ (processing mixed garbage to recover recycable materials) has been stymied by citizen dissent and poor operating performance. Most recently, the...
Amidst all the media talk about the failure of recycling, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency just released a report that underscores the viability and potency...
I think the writers who periodically “trash” recycling as ‘broken’, ‘wasteful’, ‘outweigh the benefits’ are secretly in love with recycling. They write their pieces in...
Neil Seldman – Letter to Editor Dear Editor, The Washington Post’s feature “American recycling is stalling” (June 20), correctly points to problems caused by large...
The Waste to Wealth Initiative of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance is looking to fill a full time, associate-level position. The job involves developing recycling,...
There is no one best way for communities to recycle. San Francisco has a highly successful program under an exclusive franchise system. Across the Bay,...
The rapid increase in community-scale composting in the Mid-Atlantic is sorely needed. The recent closing of the Wilmington Organics Recycling Center in Delaware, due to...
Rick Anthony recalls a conversation he had in 2007 with officials from the Delaware Chamber of Commerce about recycling. An official stated that the only...
Last week, the DC City Council unanimously passed two key pieces of legislation: a styrofoam ban by food service businesses and a waste modernization bill....