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Newsletter Headline — May 20, 2019

China’s Ban on Scrap Imports a Boon to U.S. Recycling Plants

China, which had long been the world’s largest destination for paper, plastic and other recyclables, phased in import restrictions in January 2018. Global scrap prices plummeted, prompting waste-hauling companies to pass the cost of sorting and baling recyclables on to municipalities. With no market for the wastepaper and plastic in their blue bins, some communities […]

Newsletter Headline — May 20, 2019

Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019

Indianapolis Recycles Just 4% Of Its Garbage Each Year

Without universal curbside recycling, residents in Indianapolis have to either go somewhere to drop off their recycling, or pay an $8-a-month subscription fee to have someone come and pick it up off their curb — a system that has frustrated residents, according to Allyson Mitchell, executive director of the Indiana Recycling Coalition. “We take phone […]

Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019

Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019

City Announces Reduction in Curbside Recycling in New Orleans; Jefferson Finds Temporary Fix

While curbside recycling will continue in New Orleans, rising costs and the fallout from a sweeping policy change in China have forced it to stop taking five of the seven categories of previously recyclable plastic. City contractors picking up curbside will still collect steel and aluminum cans; water and soda bottles; milk, juice, detergent and shampoo […]

Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019

Landfills — May 19, 2019

Landfill Cell Gets Four More Years

In discussing recycling, Lincoln County Health Department Director Kathi Hooper made clear what the benefit of recycling and other waste reduction has had for Lincoln County Landfill. Hooper said that a survey of the landfill outside Libby in October 2018 showed an increase in the life expectancy for the current cell. The last survey was conducted […]

Landfills — May 19, 2019

Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019

Tiny East Timor to Become World’s First Plastic-Neutral Nation

East Timor is set to become the world’s first country to recycle all its plastic waste after it teamed up with Australian researchers to build a revolutionary recycling plant. The $40-million plant will ensure that no plastic, once used in the Southeast Asian nation, would become waste, but would instead be turned into new products. […]

Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019

Government and Regulations — May 19, 2019

California Weighs How to Lighten Its Plastic Problem

An estimated 2.37 million tons of plastic material ended up in California landfills in 2017, according to the state agency CalRecycle. And the list of plastics in the dump is long and varied — cups and lids, trays for cookies or raw meat, bags for potato chips or bread, pouches for baby food or refillable […]

Government and Regulations — May 19, 2019