Waste Advantage Magazine - Waste & Recycling Industry News

Recent Stories

Collection/Transfer — October 23, 2019

First Days of WASTECON 2019 Focus on Education and Collaboration

There’s a growing momentum in the waste and recycling industry that SWANA has taken ahold of and run with full force – how the industry changing and what does it mean for professionals and how can they get involved. It is a dynamic and transitional time and includes the growth of SWANA’s collaboration with organizations […]

Collection/Transfer — October 23, 2019

Newsletter Headline — October 22, 2019

Can U.S. Consumers Save Paper Recycling, One Straw or TV Dinner Tray at a Time?

Containers, cartons, wrapping and everything else discarded after a product is used make up about 30% of all American trash, or more than 76 million tons annually. Now the biggest retailers and consumer goods giants are racing to replace everything from plastic envelopes to styrofoam meat trays with fiber-based iterations. The U.S. paper recycling industry, […]

Newsletter Headline — October 22, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Recycling Shells Makes a World for Oysters

Oyster-loving Central Virginians will be able to join oyster-serving restaurants in recycling the shells of the salt-water mollusks to propagate bivalves in the Chesapeake Bay when the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority opens a shucked shell collection point. The solid waste authority will hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony with officials from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Rice Rivers […]

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Franklin, MA Introduces Curbside Clothing Recycling on November 11

Franklin, MA residents with town curbside solid waste collection will soon get pink bags that they can put out on trash days. Three Pink bags and an introduction card will be arriving the first week of November. The contents of the bags will be kept out of landfills. According to DEP statistics, 8.1% of trash […]

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Philadelphia, PA is Eyeing a Ban on Plastic Bags. Here’s How That’s Worked in Other Cities.

Philadelphia’s City Council is considering a ban on plastic bags and a fee for paper or other kinds of bags. There are least 471 local bag regulations in 28 different states and Washington, D.C., according to an advocate who tracks the legislation. “At least once a week over the last four years, there’s been a […]

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Plastic Bottles vs. Aluminum Cans: Who’ll Win the Global Water Fight?

Aluminum cans might indeed mean less ocean waste, but they come with their own eco-price: the production of each can pumps about twice as much carbon into the atmosphere as each plastic bottle. French group Danone has become the latest company to make a move, telling Reuters it had started to replace some plastic bottles […]

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

E-Newsletter Signup