Montgomery County’s garbage incinerator in Dickerson, Maryland, long-heralded as a model of success in the industry by incineration proponents, has not looked so successful in the last few months. Montgomery’s residents and businesses have long been told that the garbage incinerator was technologically and economically a boon to the county. However, realities are setting in and … Read More
Louise Mann, Waste Reduction Resources, has been a recycling educator and activist for over thirty years. She is now focused on the effort to prevent single stream recycling in Fayetteville from replacing the city’s curb-sort recycling program. In this short video Mann summarizes the development of this dilemma for citizens, haulers and the city that will … Read More
According to a new report from the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, if just one percent of all households in South Carolina were to recycle an additional eight newspapers per month, it could mean a gain of $3.8 million in economic activity annually for the state, including 16 new jobs and $800,000 … Read More
Community Purchasing Alliance (CPA) is a Washington, D.C.-based purchasing cooperative that helps schools, churches, and senior facilities cooperatively buy basic services such as electricity, janitorial, landscaping, security, garbage and recycling services. Doing so helps these groups save money, as well as improving efficiency, and creating good jobs. CPA coordinates purchasing services and the cooperative then releases … Read More
The dialogue on the topic of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Paper, Packaging and Products did not take a Thanksgiving holiday. Below you will find recent perspectives by Sue Maxwell, Mary Lou Van Deventer and Dan Knapp on how EPR is operating in British Columbia and its relevancy for California and the U.S. This segment of … Read More
Urban Ore, the material recovery enterprise in Berkeley, CA, and ILSR have been working partners for over 30 years. In recent years our collaboration has focused on the effort to substitute corporate dominated Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for our current recycling sector players comprised of diverse interests including organized citizens, environmental groups, haulers, processors, manufacturers, government … Read More
The CEO of Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) commented to CNBC that, based on the facts, glass and organics should not be collected because they lack economic value for shareholders. In a related panel discussion, the need for top-down legislation to help recycling was deemed unnecessary. Accordingly, WMI is reducing its investments in recycling. “As profits in this … Read More
In my career of five decades of working in the recycling field for ILSR there is only one person I consider a true “Johnny Appleseed of Recycling” in the U.S. His name is Murray J. Fox and he remains a sage of recycling, whose own history provides insight into today’s policies and issues. He never failed … Read More
Sweden will try to assist companies that aim to repair products by exempting those services from the Value Added Tax (VAT). If legislation submitted recently by the Social Democrat and Green party coalition is enacted, the tax will be cut to 12% from 25% under the proposal. “We believe that this could substantially lower the cost … Read More
