Recycling and Processing

Red, White & You, Part II: The West

Kim A. O'Connell

In the West, with its vast expanses of plains, mountains and deserts, there are many places to dump old tires. Illegal dumping is still a major problem,...

RECYCLING: NERC Bytes into E-Waste

Rebekah A. Hall

Computers and other electronic goods weren't always discarded like a pair of worn socks. But with technology constantly being upgraded, concerns about...

Weathering the Storm

Kathleen M. White

With the economy in a slump, recycling businesses can count themselves among those American industries that have been hardest hit. Indeed, the economic...

San Francisco Feat, The

Nikki Swartz

No trip to san francisco would be complete without a few visits to its world-class restaurants, but now that city’s residents have a new food obsession:...

RECYCLING: A Smart Exchange

Kim A. O'Connell

Oregon is on the right trail when it comes to recycling manufacturing leftovers, surplus equipment and obsolete feedstock. To encourage reuse in the Pacific...

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Eco-Friendly Shopping Helps Close the Loop

Carol Badaracco Padgett

Although the waste industry knows how important it is to close the loop, how many work to accomplish it? Thanks to a user-friendly report released by...

RECYCLING: A Barn Reborn

Kim A. O'Connell

Every morning, John High climbs into his pickup truck and drives to job sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware to save doomed barns from the landfill....

Sealing Compost's Fate

Nikki Swartz

Like shopping in a used car lot, compost end-users can't always be sure they won't get a lemon. This is because there are composters who don't test, says...

Red, White & You - Part I

Kim A. O'Connell

How your state handles solid waste and recycling. In the 21st century, curbside recycling is no longer enough. According to a survey of all 50 states'...

RECYCLING: Recycled Treasures

Nikki Swartz

At The RE Store, one man's used building-material trash is another man's treasure. And every time a customer buys recycled treasure from the store, it...

MARKET REPORT: EPA Report Dishes Out MSW Facts and Figures

Kim A. O'Connell

Recycling and responsible waste disposal may be well and good, but the most eco-friendly waste management strategy is not creating waste at all. At least...

RECYCLING: Oregon Survey Trumpets State's Efforts

Carol Badaracco Padgett

Although Oregon has yet to reach its lofty 50 percent recycling goal, the state is disposing less waste and recycling more, according to Oregon's 2000...

U.S. Solid Waste Industry, The: How Big is It?

Edward W. Repa

Measuring the size of the U.S. solid waste industry has never been as easy as stepping on a scale or whipping out a ruler until now. In the past, the...

Turning Over New Leaves

Michael Fickes

By and large, composting remains a strange little sideline within the solid waste industry. Small businesses hawk home composting bins to homeowners with...

DECONSTRUCTION: Seattle Struts Its Construction Recycling Stuff

Kim A. O'Connell

Only one city is synonymous with Starbucks, Microsoft, Boeing and Amazon.com Seattle. In the past decade, the home of the Space Needle has experienced...

Boulder County Fights Back

By Laurie Batchelder Adams and Kara Dinhoffer

Although Colorado has the reputation of being an environmental state, it doesn't officially support recycling. For example, in 1993, Colorado's governor...

RECYCLING: Recycling Means Big Business for Buckeye State

Nikki Swartz

Recycling often is considered a necessary evil, something municipalities are required, or even forced, to do despite limited resources and funds for such...

RECYCLING: The Little State that Could

By Beth A. Bailey

It's not surprising that Rhode Islanders gobble up the latest electronic gizmos, but you've got to give them credit: Last year, residents broke records...

Feedstock or Famine

By Kim A. O'Connell

Anyone who works the sort line at a materials recovery facility (MRF) knows about contamination, but what do you do when six nervous kittens come traveling...

A Special Report: Good Wood Gone Bad

By Patricia-Anne Tom

Solid waste managers take in the world's undesirables every day, but in doing so, a potential bomb chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood is waiting...

RECYCLING: ReThinking Recycling

Sarah Nichols

Getting people to recycle can be as painful as pulling teeth without Novocain. However, Stratford, Conn.-based rePlanet may have discovered a painless...