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Big Waste dominates every aspect of solid waste and recycling practice and policy. The top four consolidated companies earn $30 billion of the $70 billion economic sector. Big Waste companies own or control 75% of the permitted landfill capacity in major metropolitan areas, and control an estimated 50% of the national hauling market, with increased levels of domination in regional markets.… Read More
December 5th is World Soil Day, a good day to celebrate the power of COMPOST to enhance soil fertility, structure, water-holding capacity, and carbon sequestration. Healthy soils contain 5% organic matter and compost is the best way to add organic matter to depleted soils.… Read More
In the News: Neil Seldman August 20, 2018 Media Outlet: Governing Magazine Neil Seldman, ILSR’s co-founder and the Director of the Waste to Wealth Program authored an article for Governing Magazine. Neil breaks down why there’s reason to be hopeful despite the drastic import restrictions on recycled materials that China recently imposed. He explains how this … Read More
A new program allows commuters in Surabaya, Indonesia to pay public transit fares by dropping off recycled plastic at designated centers in the city.… Read More
Centre County, Penn., a rural county of 26,000 people and 1,000 businesses, will not switch to single-stream recycling based on a yearlong research report by MSW Consultants that looked into the benefits and drawbacks of switching.… Read More
A number of municipal recycling programs in the U.S. and Canada have reinstated dual-stream in the past few months or are planning to do so. … Read More
Alachua County’s 37-acre industrial park for recycling companies, or Resource Recovery Park (RRP), is about to open after five years of research, planning, and design.… Read More
Proponents of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Paper, Products, and Packaging (PPP) are jumping on the “China Crisis” bandwagon by attempting to revive efforts to shift control over recycling from local government and existing recycling companies to statewide non-profit agencies under the control of Big Soda companies and their allies.… Read More
Recycling in California is getting tougher. The state’s recycling rate, once the highest in the nation, has fallen below 50%. Problems within the bottle return system and Chinese import restrictions have to be addressed if the state is to reach its 75% recycling goal.… Read More
