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Material Waste Flows: Understanding Americas Massive and Growing Resource Footprint
2025-12-11 06:13:49| Waste Age
In the United States, wastewater treatment plants handle approximately 34 billion gallons of wastewater daily. Beyond that, billions more gallons of untreated stormwater and sewage overflow into rivers and coastal waters, creating a diffuse but massive challengelargely invisible in traditional waste discussions.
Category: Energy and Environment
Home For Christmas
2025-12-10 21:09:18| Country Lines Online
By Chris Lewis In 2001, a group of seven Ontonagon residents gathered one evening to discuss various topics. Eventually, they began discussing Christmastime. The conversation ultimately culminated in an intriguing idea: a Christmas parade that the entire community can enjoy together. Celebrating Christmas Later that year, the group, along with several volunteers, hosted its first […] The post Home For Christmas appeared first on Michigan Country Lines Magazine.
Category: Energy and Environment
EACR Inc Expands Services to Include Vape Recycling for E-Cigarettes
2025-12-10 13:45:00| Waste Age
EACR Inc, a leader in compliant electronics recycling and responsible end-of-life management for technology devices, is proud to announce the launch of its new vape recycling services for e-cigarettes and related devices.
Category: Energy and Environment
The Healthcare Plastics Tsunami and Charting a More Sustainable Path
2025-12-10 13:30:00| Waste Age
The healthcare sector relies on single-use plastics more than almost any other industry, with disposables like gloves, gowns, and syringes seen as convenient and a way to help prevent infection. But the end result is spiraling volumes of discards a waste stream that remains unchecked as the industry is largely exempt from regulations applied to other businesses.
Category: Energy and Environment
A Missing Authorization Invalidated a Waste Contract in North Carolina
2025-12-10 13:00:00| Waste Age
The dispute between BFI Waste Services and the Town of Liberty highlights how Dillons Rule and municipal charter requirements shape local contracting authority. After two conflicting waste services agreements surfaced, a federal judge dismissed BFIs claims, finding no valid contract and no duty of care owed by the town manager. The case underscores the importance of authorization, procedure, and due diligence when doing business with municipal governments.
Category: Energy and Environment
Mobile County, AL Commissioners Reject Landfill Expansion Plan
2025-12-10 12:30:00| Waste Age
This week, a plan to expand the Chastang Landfill in Mobile County, Ala., was rejected by county commissioners.
Category: Energy and Environment
Lethbridge, Canada Collects 3,000 Batteries in Pilot Program
2025-12-10 12:00:00| Waste Age
During Alberta, Canadas first-ever curbside battery pickup effort, the program collected over 3,000 kilograms of used household batteries in Lethbridge.
Category: Energy and Environment
Waste360 Women Who Inspire Awards: Frequently Asked Questions
2025-12-09 17:13:16| Waste Age
The Waste360 Women Who Inspire award recognizes the extraordinary women in the waste and recycling industry for their leadership and achievements, as well as for empowering others.
Category: Energy and Environment
Weston, WI Changing Waste Collection Company, New Carts on the Way
2025-12-09 14:54:22| Waste Age
Weston, Wis., is changing waste collection companies, and the city is preparing residents to swap their waste and recycling carts before the switch.
Category: Energy and Environment
New York Launches Vape Collection Program
2025-12-09 14:51:23| Waste Age
A yearlong vape collection program has launched in New York aimed at collecting devices and learning about safe collection in the state.
Category: Energy and Environment