GFL Environmental IPO filing outlines plans for significant expansion

A new SEC filing offers key details about the industry's fourth-largest player — including the revelation that CEO Patrick Dovigi pulled in nearly CA$47.5 million last year.

By Cole Rosengren • July 23, 2019

How Veolia tackles tough waste streams with resourcefulness and global reach

Veolia North America President and COO Bob Cappadona talked to Waste Dive about how the company's Total Waste Management division can find unique solutions for just about anything — even PFAS.

By Cole Rosengren • July 16, 2019

New Hampshire voters approve zoning ordinance that could affect Casella landfill plans

The company's interest in permitting a new landfill adjacent to a state park has stirred up local opposition. A temporary zoning ordinance was pitched as one way to control that process.

By Cole Rosengren , Leia Larsen • Updated July 31, 2019

Disputed ground: The future of landfill gas-to-energy

Gas capture at landfills creates electricity and revenue, but also has economic and environmental disadvantages.

By Max Witynski • July 12, 2019

Waste Management aiming to expand Wisconsin's largest landfill via Superfund excavation

Once thought to be nearing capacity, the Orchard Ridge Landfill could now remain open for years following the proposed project and a previously approved expansion.

By Rina Li • July 10, 2019

Off the Route: Von Hernandez on 'turning the tide' of plastic pollution

Hernandez spoke to Waste Dive about his career as a waste and toxics campaigner, waste dumping in Southeast Asia and the path toward creating mass systemic change around plastics.

By Rina Li • July 3, 2019

GFL-operated Georgia landfill battles court injunction

A district court sided with residents complaining of odors, buzzards and fugitive debris at the 122-acre Grady Road Landfill — but operator Waste Industries is pushing back with a request to stay the 90-day injunction.

By Leia Larsen • July 3, 2019

Food waste is piling up. How are manufacturers responding?

More than 1.6 billion tons of food go to waste annually, representing $1.2 trillion in value and a third of all global food production — and according to a 2018 report, it's getting worse.

By Craig Guillot • July 2, 2019

San Diego approves new recycling contracts, keeps foam recycling

The San Diego Environmental Services Department reversed an initial recommendation to cut EPS foam from the city's curbside program earlier this week ahead of a broader vote on new recycling contracts.

By Rina Li • June 27, 2019

EPA recommends Georgia become second state to run coal ash permit program

Oklahoma is the only state currently operating its own program as part of the Trump EPA's agenda to give more flexibility on coal ash regulations.

By Catherine Morehouse • June 26, 2019

Oregon communities reach agreement with Waste Connections to revive recycling

The deal, which comes with a rate increase and the elimination of mixed plastics, was struck by some of the last areas still receiving state approval to dispose of commingled recyclables.

By Max Witynski • June 26, 2019

New Jersey passes food waste bill favoring landfills and WTE

A bill once intended to promote diversion to compost and digestion facilities will now allow unique exemptions due to lobbying from landfill and incinerator operators.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated June 28, 2019

Boston finally reaches recycling deal with Casella

Covanta and Wheelabrator will also retain residential waste contracts. Both deals may be regional bellwethers of higher prices to come.

By Cole Rosengren • June 24, 2019

Scrap Collector: Southeast Asian activists call for ASEAN ban on foreign waste imports

Plus: Hawaii County approves bill allowing substitution of polystyrene with low-value plastics, and UK government slammed for rejecting textile waste recommendations.

By Rina Li • June 21, 2019

GFL Environmental moves forward on potential $1.5B IPO

The fourth-largest company in the North American waste industry has confirmed its plans to go public by filing initial forms with both U.S. and Canadian regulatory authorities.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated July 22, 2019

BioHiTech Global sees new MBT facility as a model for Northeast disposal crunch

Entsorga West Virginia, jokingly referred to as "Waste Disneyland," is described as a complement to limited regional landfills. Waste Dive spoke with the executive team about growth plans.

By Cole Rosengren • June 20, 2019

Illinois EPA issues violation notice to Waste Connections-owned landfill

The violation notice, which alleges ongoing odors from Winnebago Landfill, comes nearly two years after state prosecutors sought court-ordered remedies for emissions.

By Rina Li • June 18, 2019

Revised federal flood plain map could affect Texas landfill construction

Judges have ruled in favor of Rancho Viejo Waste Management's request that consideration of its proposed Webb County landfill be delayed.

By Rina Li , Anna Hrushka • Updated June 20, 2019

TVA agrees to excavate 12M tons of coal ash after 5-year battle

The authority's practices remain controversial a decade after one plant was involved in the country's largest coal ash disaster to date. Now, material from another site must be recycled or placed in a lined landfill.

By Catherine Morehouse • June 14, 2019

Scrap Collector: Trudeau announces Canadian ban on single-use plastics

Plus: Members of Congress ask Trump for plastic action, and Indonesia announces plans to return plastic waste shipments.

By Rina Li • June 14, 2019

Department of Energy change could send radioactive waste to Utah and Texas

The agency's decision to downgrade certain types of "high-level radioactive waste" has elicited a range of opinions from states where it's currently being stored.

By Leia Larsen • June 14, 2019

Why the EPA's decision on E&P waste is very good for the industry

Managing byproducts from oil and gas drilling has become a lucrative business for waste and recycling companies. Rich Thompson lays out why that's expected to continue unabated in the near future.

By Rich Thompson • June 12, 2019

Palo Alto, California approves sweeping single-use plastics ban

The city is the first in the Bay Area to ban distribution of plastic produce bags in grocery stores and farmers markets. It also passed a deconstruction ordinance to limit C&D waste.

By Rina Li • June 11, 2019

Waste Management set to pay Dayton, Ohio $10.5M landfill settlement

If approved this week, the settlement will resolve a decades-long dispute and require the company to construct new leachate treatment infrastructure at the Stony Hollow Landfill.

By Cole Rosengren • June 11, 2019

Philadelphia City Council approves Waste Management, Covanta contracts

The companies will retain their lock on the city's disposal contracts following recent council approval, with Waste Management taking over processing of all residential recyclables.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated June 18, 2019