What We're Reading: Page 4
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Oct 25, 2024
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The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore DPW had inadequate training, no heat illness procedures before sanitation worker’s death, report finds.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Rumpke investigating after possible cyberattack, says services will not be impacted.
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Waste Today
Tomra acquires German digital waste management solutions company.
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Agriculture Dive
USDA developing road map to tackle PFAS on farmland amid potential biosolids contamination.
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Corvallis Gazette-Times
Republic Services’ Coffin Butte Landfill to stop sending leachate to Corvallis, Oregon, wastewater treatment plant.
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KBTX
College Station, Texas, releases preliminary investigation findings in pedestrian-garbage truck death.
Oct 24, 2024
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Bloomberg Law
Rise in PFAS incineration puts spotlight on air pollution risk.
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Houston Public Media
Houston City Council approves labor agreement with city employees, includes pay bumps, rest breaks.
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BioCycle
Study analyzes the outputs of dehydrated and composted food scraps.
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Nonstop local
Helena, Montana, increases lithium battery recycling efforts to prevent fires.
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WYMT
Letcher County, Kentucky, receives grant to build digester at transfer station.
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JDSupra
Virginia court rules against immunity for public garbage truck driver because accident happened during ‘normal driving.’
Oct 23, 2024
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The Signal
Waste Connections subsidiary threatens to sue Los Angeles County over landfill closure talk.
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NBC 7 San Diego
Walmart to pay $7.5M for dumping hazardous waste in San Diego, 11 other California counties.
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ABC13 Houston
Houston Housing Authority under investigation after toxic ash from former trash incineration plant found buried.
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Financial Post
Nearly half of all Canada’s food is wasted, report finds.
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Waste Today
Athens Services celebrates opening of new operations center in Thousand Oaks, California, including CNG stations.
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HR Dive
FTC appeals Texas noncompete ban decision to 5th Circuit.
Oct 22, 2024
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NorthJersey.com
OSHA investigating fatal crash in Tenafly, New Jersey, involving Regional Industries collection worker.
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The Press Democrat
Waste Connections confirms it will submit closure plan for Clover Flat Landfill in California next year.
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Akron Beacon Journal
Akron City Council votes 10-3 to approve WM transfer station plan in Ohio.
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Honolulu Civil Beat
Honolulu, Hawai’i, considers plan to export waste off island for 10 years until new landfill is built.
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Maryland Matters
Maryland’s Senate president backs ongoing effort to remove incinerators from renewable energy subsidy program.
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WTTW
Chicago giving away backyard compost bins
Oct 21, 2024
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The Baltimore Banner
Runaway WB Waste truck rolls downhill, kills its driver in Baltimore.
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CBS Colorado
Many Fort Collins, Colorado, residents are paying for Republic Services trash service they have never used.
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Lehigh Valley Live
2 people who created Plainfield Township, Pennsylvania, solid waste district oppose rezoning for WM landfill.
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Denverite
Denver, Colorado, compost collection expanding to additional neighborhoods.
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Streetsblog New York City
Mayor’s plan to use sidewalk bins for New York City garbage could undermine containerization, report says.
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WCJB
Trucks destroyed in fire at Waste Pro, Alachua County, Florida, firefighters respond.
Oct 18, 2024
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Waste 360
Waste Pro assists municipalities in recovering from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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WBEZ Chicago
What’s it like to be a Chicago garbage collector?
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Civil Eats
The US government campaigns to reduce food waste at home.
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Riverhead News-Review
Long Island officials urge New York Gov. Hochul to enact plan that supports WTE plants.
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New Haven Register
Police: New Haven, Connecticut, bicyclist dies after being struck by garbage truck.
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WCJB
Gainesville, Florida, commissioners vote to raise commercial waste hauling rates.
Oct 17, 2024
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The Detroit News
Republic moves Wayne County, Michigan, radioactive waste case to federal court, citing commerce clause.
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WJBF
Augusta, Georgia, temporarily suspends recycling in aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
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Denverite
Denver’s volume-based waste fee pricing system has been slow to reduce tonnage so far.
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The Star Tribune
There’s a huge pile of tree debris in Minnesota. It’s growing. And there are no good solutions.
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Inside Climate News
EPA settles some Alabama coal ash violations, but larger questions linger.
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Akron.com
Akron planning to expand yard waste recycling in the city thanks to SWIFR grant.
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