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Common holiday items that do not belong in recycling include: bubble wrap, cellophane, holiday ribbons and bows, batteries, clothing and shoes, holiday lights, electronics and foam packaging. PHOENIX -- Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) is bracing for an influx of discarded packaging material this holiday season and is offering tips to consumers as they head to their recycling carts with boxes, bows and gift bags. And last year alone, the United States Postal Service delivered 1.1 billion packages during the holiday season and is expecting more of the same this year. [Extracted from the article]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Californians, agriculture industry, local governments and businesses now have more options to easily dispose of treated wood waste with the passage of recent legislation. WWPI represents preserved wood product producers, chemical manufacturers, wood manufacturers and others serving the wood infrastructure and building industry throughout western North America. [Extracted from the article]

By taking the site through the redevelopment process, and through partnership with designated redeveloper CEP Renewables, this site has become a model for brownfield and landfill redevelopment projects in New Jersey. RED BANK, N.J.,-- CEP Renewables LLC, an accomplished expert in the development of solar power plants on unusable land such as landfills, brownfields, Superfunds, and mining sites, will begin construction on the largest solar project installed on a capped landfill in North America. [Extracted from the article]

Knox trains and supports landfill operators in dealing with these wastes, with his top focus being safety. Lisa Neuberger, the company's environmental health and safety editor, says preplanning, even before the landfill is built, is critical to be able to run efficiently and safely through major storms and other natural disasters. In the wake of more frequent and more severe extreme weather, managing household hazardous waste (HHW) becomes more challenging for municipal solid waste landfill operators. [Extracted from the article]

The Aerosol Cans as Universal Waste Rule allows aerosol can waste to be managed as universal waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste rules (40 CFR 273) instead of classifying them as hazardous waste. Clean Earth's hazardous waste facility in Morgantown is a Part B permitted Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility (TSDF) capable of receiving a large variety of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes in drums, totes and bulk. [Extracted from the article]

B [00:32:33] Liz: b You're one of our prestigious 40 Under 40 alums, so you know what it takes to be young and successful, Mike. B [00:40:28] Mike: b Yes, Liz. This is Liz Bothwell from Waste360 with Mike Fernandez, Director of the Miami-Dade Department of Solid Waste Management. I'm really looking forward to meeting her. B [00:35:58] Mike: b Yes, Kisha is a great person. [Extracted from the article]

Introduced with strong support from the Coalition for American Electronics Recycling (CAER), SEERA will ensure America's e-waste does not end up in toxic dumps in developing countries and choke off the flow of raw materials used by electronics counterfeiters. B Washington, DC - b Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Steve Stivers (R-OH) today introduced the Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act (SEERA), legislation that will protect the environment and national security by restricting export of untested, nonworking electronic scrap from the United States. [Extracted from the article]

Promontory Point Resources is seeking a Class V landfill permit from Utah's Department of Environmental Quality to move contaiminated soil from superfund sites to its landfill. Tetra Tech EC, the company tasked with cleaning up radioactive waste at the shipyard, "faked tests of soils in a way that threatened to send radiologically contaminated soils to landfills not equipped to safely store that type of waste", according to the Standard-Examiner. [Extracted from the article]

Promontory Point Resources is seeking a Class V landfill permit from the California's Department of Environmental Quality to move radioactive soil from superfund sites to its landfill. Tetra Tech EC, the company tasked with cleaning up radioactive waste at the shipyard, "faked tests of soils in a way that threatened to send radiologically contaminated soils to landfills not equipped to safely store that type of waste", according to the Standard-Examiner. [Extracted from the article]

B Food Waste and Organics b According to the EPA, in 2018 food waste accounted for over 35 million tons of waste in landfills -- or about 24% of all landfill waste -- making it the largest stream of waste ending up in landfills. New Jersey S.B. 232 B - b This bill establishes guidelines for building of new waste facilities by restricting major sources of pollution and waste in overburdened facilities. While commercial waste franchise zones are not something new, New York City's plan will have an amplified effect as it is the largest commercial waste market in the country. [Extracted from the article]

B PHILADELPHIA b - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the U.S. Department of Defense and the state of Delaware have agreed to reimburse EPA $3,590,985 for its cleanup of a former landfill at the Governor Bacon Health Center/Fort DuPont State Park near Delaware City. The proposed consent decree filed in federal district court in Wilmington on Dec. 16, requires Delaware to pay $1,889,992 and the U.S. Department of Defense to pay $1,700,993 to reimburse EPA for its cleanup costs. [Extracted from the article]

Cathode ray tubes (CRT) are a dying breed, dwindling from the waste stream for years; yet they still command attention. Meanwhile, 70 percent of CRTs is glass so I would like to see public policy move toward driving recycling when there is a recycling option", says Stamper. Every pound of material that comes to KC is recycled; in a year the company processes about 10,000 tons of CRT glass, according to Stamper. [Extracted from the article]

Anchorage, Alaska is building a $120 million transfer station and upgrading its existing one, which is the largest project in the history of its Solid Waste Services department. And the spatial positioning of buildings will enable residents to more easily get to the household hazardous waste site on the way to the tipping floor. [Extracted from the article]

B HATBORO, Pa. b - Clean Earth, one of the largest specialty waste companies in the United States, today announced that its Clean Earth Aerosol Recycling System expects to process 13 million aerosol cans by the end of 2020, an 85% increase from the company's aerosol can recycling in 2015. Morgantown's sophisticated and robust processing systems are designed specifically to manage aerosol waste and Clean Earth's network is projected to expand with additional recycling processing units by 2022. [Extracted from the article]

Since the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the social media floodgates have swung open, with almost every industry sector tweeting, posting to their websites, and/or emailing their stakeholders with a common-themed message: They stand united to end racism. "You don't see polluting industries or landfills in rich neighborhoods", she says, adding that NSAC's work around waste reduction and recycling benefit traditionally disadvantaged groups. Last week, Kate Bailey, policy & research director at Eco-Cycle, challenged the industry to think about opportunities for change in how people of color are treated whether at work or elsewhere. [Extracted from the article]

By hiding the real costs of landfills to the public, the true value of recycling is hidden, as well as the critical gains from avoiding environmental disasters associated with releases from waste containment. Unsustainable landfill policies and hiding costs also impact and undermine proper investments in comprehensive waste and environmental damage policies and programs. [Extracted from the article]

By hiding the real costs of landfills to the public, the true value of recycling is hidden, as well as the critical gains from avoiding environmental disasters associated with releases from waste containment. Unsustainable landfill policies and hiding costs also impact and undermine proper investments in comprehensive waste and environmental damage policies and programs. [Extracted from the article]

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy announced it has approved a hazardous waste renewal and expansion operating license for U.S. Ecology's Detroit North facility. A controversial hazardous waste facility that stores solid and liquid waste in the city has gained approval from state regulators to expand and continue operations for the next decade. [Extracted from the article]

How to manage wasted aerosol cans has long been a hot-button topic, as there are stringent rules around these potentially flammable containers as well as associated consequences - mainly high costs to comply and potential for serious violations. But handlers will have less to worry about with the passage of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rule around aerosol containers. [Extracted from the article]

Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia North America, announced it has signed an agreement to take over Alcoa USA Corporation's Hazardous Waste Treatment Site located in Gum Springs, Ark. With this operation, Veolia continues the global expansion of its hazardous waste treatment and recycling activity, with a step further in North America, and adds a flagship site to its existing portfolio. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Kalamazoo River Natural Resource Trustee Council and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) announced a proposed consent decree that would require NCR Corp. to clean up and fund future response actions at a significant portion of the Allied Paper Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund site. $27 million to natural resource trustees of the Kalamazoo River Natural Resource Trustee Council for Natural Resources Damage Assessment and claims. [Extracted from the article]

During its 2019 third quarter earnings call with investors, Chemours Co. announced that it has a "negligible" and "minor" role in per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination problems, Bloomberg Environment reports. According to the report and Chemours' filing, the company now believes it will need to pay $884 million to resolve PFAS litigation and clean up contaminated sites, which is more than 10 percent from its estimate from the previous quarter. [Extracted from the article]

Since 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has maintained a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket under section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Section 120(c) requires EPA to establish a docket that contains certain information reported to EPA by federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which a reportable quantity of hazardous substances has been released. [Extracted from the article]

Charges against 11 protesters who formed an all-day blockade in front of the Bridgeton and West Lake Landfill complex in St. Louis back in 2017 have been dropped. In May, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would conduct additional testing at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo., before a much-anticipated remedy is applied to the site. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a cleanup plan calling for several cleanup technologies to address contamination at the Mansfield Trail Dump Superfund site in Byram Township, N.J. Under the Record of Decision, EPA will cap former dump areas, treat contaminated groundwater and dig up and remove contaminated soil, among other steps to protect public health. "EPA is making progress to address the contamination that has plagued this community since the area was used as a dumping ground", said EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez in a statement. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a cleanup plan calling for several cleanup technologies to address contamination at the Mansfield Trail Dump Superfund site in Byram Township, N.J. Under the Record of Decision, EPA will cap former dump areas, treat contaminated groundwater and dig up and remove contaminated soil, among other steps to protect public health. "EPA is making progress to address the contamination that has plagued this community since the area was used as a dumping ground", said EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez in a statement. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a cleanup plan calling for several cleanup technologies to address contamination at the Mansfield Trail Dump Superfund site in Byram Township, N.J. Under the Record of Decision, EPA will cap former dump areas, treat contaminated groundwater and dig up and remove contaminated soil, among other steps to protect public health. "EPA is making progress to address the contamination that has plagued this community since the area was used as a dumping ground", said EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez in a statement. [Extracted from the article]