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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

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

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Plastic Makers Welcome House Introduction of Bipartisan “Plastics Act”

Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) last week introduced The Partnering and Leveraging Assistance to Stop Trash for Cleaner Seas Act (PLASTICS Act, H.R. 4636), which seeks to reduce marine debris and plastic waste in the ocean by leveraging U.S. assistance to support effective waste management systems in developing countries. Steve […]

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

Republic Services Certified as a Great Place to Work® for Third Consecutive Year

Republic Services, Inc. is the only recycling and waste services company to be certified as a Great Place to Work in 2019. Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture, working with companies around the world to build a high-trust, high-performance culture that drives better business performance. Fewer than 1,000 companies across the U.S. are certified by […]

Collection/Transfer — October 22, 2019

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