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Waste Awareness Week Aims to Boost Student Engagement with Sustainable Practices

The Renewable Energy Association and other environmental student organizations are hosting Waste Awareness Week to highlight the consequences of global waste mismanagement. Events take place Monday through Friday and include movie screenings, workshops and an art exhibition. Chirine Chidiac, REA programming committee member and third-year civil engineering student, said each day of Waste Awareness Week […]

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California Becomes 23rd State to Adopt Slow Down to Get Around Law

California became the 23rd state to adopt Slow Down to Get Around legislation, AB 2115, making California roads safer for waste and recycling collection workers. “Slow Down to Get Around laws carry an important message – take your time and slow down around garbage trucks. We applaud California for joining 22 other states that have now passed similar […]

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Tri-Community Landfill Merger Results in Recycling, Trash Disposal Changes for PI Region

Residents of Presque Isle, ME and surrounding communities have recently seen changes in recycling and trash disposal guidelines as part of the new tri-community landfill merger between Presque Isle, Fort Fairfield, Caribou and Limestone. In 2018, those communities agreed to combine the Presque Isle Landfill and Tri-Community Landfill into one entity known as Aroostook Waste Solutions. As […]

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Installation of Recycling Machines Starts at New Rochester, MA Plant

Installation of recycling equipment has begun at Zero Waste Solutions, a new 100,000 square-foot facility in Rochester that will handle trash and recycling. The facility will be able to accept residential and commercial waste, along with recyclables that are single-stream, commingled or source-separated. It is scheduled to open in April. Solar panels on the roof […]

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E-Waste Recycler Tech Dump Makes its First Acquisition, Adds Mail-In Service

Twin Cities electronic waste recycler Tech Dump is expanding its footprint nationally with the acquisition of Scrubb.IT, a mail-in electronics recycling program. Scrubb customers can purchase a customized postage label for $25 to mail in their unwanted electronics, which covers the cost of shipping up to 30 pounds of electronics. Customers can recycle items like […]

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5 Years After Sonoma County, CA Ban, New Era of Plastic Bags Poses a Growing Waste Problem

Five years after Sonoma County and the city of Santa Rosa banned single-use plastic bags at local supermarkets and stores, the much-maligned plastic bag is making a comeback — and reviving some familiar problems. The new breed of plastic bag, introduced a little more than two years ago, is marketed as a thicker, sturdier sack […]

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Lakeshore Recycling Systems Acquires Commercial Waste, Recycling Routes From Molenhouse Enterprises to Broaden Service Coverage in Chicago’s Western Suburbs

Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS) announces the acquisition of commercial waste and recycling routes from Molenhouse Enterprises, Inc., a long-standing suburban Chicago waste hauler. Financial terms were not disclosed. Effective immediately, Molenhouse will continue operations as Molenhouse Enterprises, Inc., delivering roll-off dumpster and demolition services; while commercial waste and recycling routes in DuPage and Kane counties will […]

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Floating Device Created to Clean Up Plastic Waste in the Pacific Ocean Isn’t Doing Its Job

The Ocean Cleanup System 001, a U-shaped floating barrier created by the organization The Ocean Cleanup, arrived in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in October. However, the system has failed to retain plastic, the organization said on Tuesday. The device is 2,000 feet long with a 10-foot skirt that hangs below it, under the water. […]

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