- Final county in Hawaii passes plastic bag ban
- Recyclebank founder sees ‘challenge' in greening New York City
- Interstate Waste Services buys Evergreen Waste of suburban Philadelphia
- Waste Industries set to unveil new CNG station, fleet in North Carolina
- Boulder, Colorado, considers plastic bag and paper bag fees
- New Jersey residents recycling less than they did in mid-1990s
- More communities OK plastic bag bans
- Alcoa releases 2011 sustainability report, aims to increase can recycling rate
- Publix Super Markets hits more than 2 billion bags saved
- California task force foils more illegal recycling
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Waste, recycling workers need to get healthier, expert says
Tom Renner has been all over the country working with trash companies for more than a decade,... Read more
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Speakers sought for Corporate Recycling and Waste Conference
Speakers are being sought for the 2012 Corporate Recycling and Waste Conference, which will take... Read more
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Waste Management begins work on central Ohio CNG infrastructure
Work is starting on Waste Management Inc.'s new compressed natural gas fueling station in central Ohio, the company said. Read more
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Use technology to improve safety record, managers say
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Update: Recycling bins may prompt additional waste, researcher says
A recent study on recycling and consumer behavior has environmentalists feeling blue. Read more
Grand Rapids, Michigan, mulling organic waste curbside collection
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Grand Rapids, Mich., could see curbside collection of organic waste as early as next year. Read more
Hedstrom buys trash bin rotomolder Nuwave Container
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rotomolded trash dumpsters. Read more
Current, former landowners pay $6.6 million to help clean up superfund site
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Eleven current and former landowners, who the U.S. EPA said contributed to turning a location in... Read more
Georgia county recycling used toilets
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In one year, a toilet recycling program in Gwinnett County, Ga., has accepted nearly 3,000 commodes. Read more
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Editor's Opinion
Editorial: Is there a recycling paradox?Then-doctoral-students Jesse R. Catlin and Yitong Wang set up an interesting experiment: They sat undergrads in a room, one at a time, and told them they would be testing scissors. They gave each of them the same task of cutting out shapes. They placed a ream of paper on the table.
Half the students were in a room with only a trash can. The other half were in a room with a trash can and a recycling bin.
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