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The Rumpke Company is a storied history of family entrepreneurship dating back to the Depression years of the early 1930s, when two brothers who raised pigs started collecting food waste for free from neighbors in Cincinnati to feed to their livestock.… Read More
In Waste 360, ILSR’s Neil Seldman writes about the history of community-based recycling programs in the U.S., and how this history illuminates a path forward for U.S. recycling.… Read More
Roger Ballentine, president of Green Strategies, points out the flaws in the key planks of the CLEAN Future Act proposal, introduced in January by House Democrats, aimed at achieving “net-zero emissions from the electricity sector” through the use of a Clean Energy Standard (CES), which Democrats will likely pass this year ahead of the election.… Read More
Round-up of recent news in anti-incineration from Oregon, Maryland, India, and more.… Read More
In Waste Dive, ILSR’s Neil Seldman talks about the importance of recycling glass and the current status of the industry, as well as potential ways to increase glass recycling.… Read More
Round-up of November news in anti-incineration from Missouri, Oregon, Denmark, and more.… Read More
The National Zero Waste Conference, organized by the National Recycling Coalition and held in Berkeley, CA is open for registration. This two-day conference, March 18 & 19, 2020, is in conjunction with the California Zero Waste Week at UC Berkeley. Early registration is open now through December 18th. For more info email nrcexecdirector@gmail.com or call 303-907-8609.… Read More
All eyes have been on California’s recycling developments as the state faces challenges with falling recycling rates, confusion and decline in its container deposit system. … Read More
Updates in anti-incineration work from Saugus, Mass. and the Energy Justice Network.… Read More
