What We're Reading: Page 21
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
May 09, 2024
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CBC News
WM collection workers in Hamilton, Ontario, area strike, demanding end to forced overtime.
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Miami Herald
Consultant report rates sites where next Miami-Dade County, Florida, incinerator could go.
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Los Angeles Daily News
LA City Council OKs $4M incentive program for organic waste disposal at restaurants, multifamily buildings.
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BioCycle
Brady Trucking Company upgrades its mulch facility to accept food waste in Western Washington.
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The Herald Journal
Providence, Utah, buys garbage trucks and begins providing its own waste collection.
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TechCrunch
Industrial waste recycler Mycocycle raises $3.6M in funding led by Closed Loop Partners’ Venture Group.
May 08, 2024
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Waste Today
NWRA honors award recipients during annual breakfast at WasteExpo.
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Trucking Dive
TFI acquires Canada-based specialty waste hauler MJ Lavoie.
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Hartford Courant
Central Connecticut Resource Recovery applies to double recycling facility in Southington.
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Times Union
New York packaging reduction legislation faces opponents in plastics, business.
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The Everett Herald
After complaints, Snohomish County, Washington, shuts down DTG’s Maltby recycling facility.
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Fox8Live
Kenner, Louisiana, mayor calls IV Waste owner Sidney Torres IV ‘a menace to our community’ in budget letter.
May 07, 2024
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Missouri Independent
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signs bill to kill south Kansas City landfill.
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Miami Herald
Miami-Dade County, Florida, waste director resisted mayor’s $269M office deal.
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New York Daily News
Queens, New York, driver operating DSNY truck charged in fatal crash.
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Model D
Pilot program to test autonomous robots’ potential for picking up food waste for compost in Detroit neighborhood.
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8NewsNow
Tractor-trailer carrying ‘hazardous waste’ catches fire in Death Valley.
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ABC 3340
Hoover, Alabama, to buy garbage truck, service Amwaste missed pickups.
May 06, 2024
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Bangor Daily News
Bucksport, Maine, landfill owner AIM Development required to meet closure deadline amid failed sale.
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First Coast News
Multiple units respond to fire at landfill in Putnam County, Florida.
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ABC24
City budget proposal would raise solid waste tax in Memphis, Tennessee.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting
EPA, for now, defers to West Virginia officials on Union Carbide landfill cleanup.
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Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
North Little Rock and Sherwood approve regional WM contract extension for recycling pickup.
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Fort Worth Report
Developer pulls application to build landfill near Lake Worth in Texas following resident outcry.
May 03, 2024
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Wall Street Journal
WM boosts profit margins by rerouting and replacing trash trucks.
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ABC 10
Official says San Joaquin County, California, hasn’t put out an RFP in 42 years for collections, looking into service rate disparity.
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KMBC
Missouri DOT leader wants changes after seeing WM trucks spill trash on highway.
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Bay to Bay News
Delaware’s first electric trash truck unveiled by Evergreen Waste Services.
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Recycling Today
Pellitteri Waste Systems expands in Wisconsin with new contracts.
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Waste Today
Qnergy expands methane abatement project at closed Utah landfill.
May 02, 2024
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Houston Chronicle
Houston City Council looking to improve Solid Waste Department with consulting contract.
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WMUR
New Hampshire Senate votes on bill to suspend landfill permits
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Maui Now
Maui County, Hawai’i, files eminent domain complaint against Komar Maui Properties for landfill expansion.
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Resource Recycling
Report: Canadian diversion rates stay steady in 2022.
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Bellingham Herald
ABC Recycling nixes plan for Bellingham, Washington, metal shredder.
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CBS Miami
Doral, Medley, Miramar mayors weigh in as Miami-Dade, Florida, decides where to build a new incinerator.
May 01, 2024
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WBRC
St. Clair County, Alabama, landfill still burning 17 months later.
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The Toronto Star
Explosion at GFL liquid waste facility in Pickering, Ontario, injures four people.
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The Paducah Sun
Kentucky hauler American Trash Service issued municipal solid waste license after violations, missed pickups.
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Resource Recycling
Atlantic Coast Recycling MRF reopens in Passaic, New Jersey, following $47M upgrade.
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Hungry Horse News
EPA says it would be tough to remove all of the waste at Superfund site with landfill in Flathead County, Montana.
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KGW
Portland, Oregon, disposal company eyeing ideas to repurpose food waste.
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