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Advanced Disposal caps off 'solid' 2018, projects M&A uptick
While the company's core solid waste business remains stable, CEO Richard Burke projects continued price hikes related to recyclables collection — even for customers that have already seen an initial round of increases.
By Rina Li • Feb. 25, 2019 -
Waste Connections wins appeal over $5.1M landfill penalty in California
The issue between Los Angeles County's Department of Public Works and the Chiquita Canyon Landfill came down to whether clean soil qualified as solid waste or beneficial reuse material.
By Cole Rosengren • Feb. 21, 2019 -
Elizabeth Regan
Tunnel Hill landfill challenges possible license denial, makes infrastructure upgrades
The Sunny Farms Landfill has become a source of ongoing community opposition in recent months. Now site operators are working to make their case before a final county decision.
By Cole Rosengren • Updated April 2, 2019 -
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Waste Management going on sustainability 'offensive,' buying more landfills
As the company's results continue to reach record highs, its stated focus is to keep spending on "technology and people" — including shareholders.
By Cole Rosengren • Feb. 15, 2019 -
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Scrap Collector: Migrant child detention center to be built on toxic former landfill
Plus: EPA's new PFAS "action plan," America's growing thirst for bottled water and Philippines's fight to end impasse over illegal Canadian waste.
By Rina Li • Feb. 15, 2019 -
Elizabeth Regan
Macquarie acquires Northeast disposal company Tunnel Hill Partners
The buyout of this vertically-integrated player, which has assets from Ohio to Massachusetts, is spurred by ever-tightening regional disposal capacity.
By Cole Rosengren • Updated Feb. 13, 2019 -
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Republic Services has 'overcome' China hurdle, says recycling success up to customers
Reporting favorable 2018 earnings, CEO Don Slager projected slow and steady progress on labor retention, technology updates and M&A.
By Cole Rosengren • Feb. 8, 2019 -
Report identifies factors in Advanced Disposal landfill slope failure that left one dead
A third-party root cause analysis, recently approved by Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, breaks down the complex factors behind a February 2017 incident at the Greentree Landfill.
By Igor Geyn • Feb. 7, 2019 -
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Waste Connections pushing for Nebraska landfill expansion after previous rejection
The Butler County Landfill, which is expected to reach capacity by 2024, was previously the subject of a lawsuit that went all the way to the Nebraska Supreme Court.
By Rina Li • Feb. 7, 2019 -
Waste Connections could pay up to $4.5M for Chiquita Canyon Landfill monitoring requirements
The monitoring, including mandated quarterly reports, is part of a contentious 2017 permit approval from county officials that the company has repeatedly chafed at in the past.
By Cody Ellis • Feb. 4, 2019 -
PR Newswire / Advanced Disposal
Wisconsin city reaches landfill settlement with Advanced Disposal
Officials in Mayville, Wisconsin previously flagged the possible environmental consequences of a proposed vertical expansion at Glacier Ridge Landfill.
By Rina Li • Updated May 17, 2019 -
Doc Searls
New Jersey sports authority cited for landfill violation, limits intake
Following revelations of excessive hydrogen sulfide emissions from Keegan Landfill, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority will now be required to implement an action plan to determine the emissions source.
By Rina Li • Updated April 5, 2019 -
Andrea Westmoreland
ColumnScrap Collector: The secret lives of trash-eating animals and a 'Paris agreement for the seas'
Plus: a 20-yard trash spill in California, the Philippines takes a stand against waste trafficking and Japan's new "waste-pit" happy hour.
By Rina Li • Jan. 18, 2019 -
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Advanced Disposal buys Alabama landfill, hauler for $15M
The acquisition of Alabama Waste Disposal Solutions from EC Waste provides a new foothold between the Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta markets.
By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 18, 2019 -
Wyoming city to maximize 50-year landfill capacity with full-cost accounting
Cheyenne's public works engineer told Waste Dive what the city hopes to achieve with a new solid waste plan that will be completed by Burns & McDonnell.
By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 16, 2019 -
Deep Dive
6 key questions for the waste and recycling industry in 2019
We'll be keeping an eye on recycling, climate change, landfills, alternative technologies, corporate consolidation, labor issues and much more in the year ahead.
By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 9, 2019 -
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Multi-state coalition demands EPA withdraw proposed delay of landfill emissions regulations
Nine state attorneys general have addressed a letter to the EPA characterizing its proposed rule delay as "arbitrary, capricious, and unsupported by law."
By Rina Li • Jan. 9, 2019 -
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Waste Connections: Louisiana DEQ 'wrongly scapegoated' landfill over odors
A Dec. 20 letter protests LDEQ's "incorrect and misleading public statements" regarding documented odor issues at the Waste Connections-operated Jefferson Parish Landfill.
By Rina Li • Jan. 2, 2019 -
Waste Management's 20-year path to 'moonshot' climate goal: cleaner fleet, more recycling
The company's 2018 Sustainability Report offers the most detailed plans yet on offsetting four times the amount of GHG emissions it produces.
By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 1, 2019 -
Elizabeth Regan
Our 10 best stories of 2018
Catch up on some of our biggest stories involving Waste Management, Republic Services, Waste Connections, GFL Environmental, Rubicon Global, TerraCycle and, of course, China.
By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 21, 2018 -
A tale of two cities: Landfills drive Waste Management and Republic deals in Texas
The companies recently completed transactions with each other in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth markets that, while viewed as largely unremarkable, illustrate the high importance placed on owning disposal assets.
By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 20, 2018 -
Permission granted by SWEEP
SWEEP standard — LEED for waste and recycling — releases ambitious proposal
After more than two years of work by many of the industry's biggest corporate and government players, the Solid Waste Environmental Excellence Protocol now has draft language ready for comments.
By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 17, 2018 -
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Scrap Collector: Virginia's landfill solar aspirations, garbage arsonist(s) terrorizing Orlando
Plus: a new online waste sorting game, NASA's plans for astronaut trash and China's new food waste solution (hint: it's cockroaches).
By Rina Li • Dec. 14, 2018 -
EPA shoots down civil rights complaint against Alabama environmental agency
The complaint was filed after a landfill-related lawsuit prompted Alabama's Department of Environmental Management to rescind its civil rights policies.
By Rina Li • Dec. 10, 2018 -
California DOJ
ColumnScrap Collector: $16M California recycling fraud bust, lessons from Flint's water crisis
Plus: accusations of "politically motivated" sanitation worker sickout, wasting disease in animal carcasses and the triumphant return of Garbage Hill.
By Rina Li • Dec. 7, 2018
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