Recycling Combats Climate Change 

Sonya Newenhouse

Americans may be able to help lessen the effects of climate change by changing their recycling habits. Alexandria, Va.-based National Recycling Council...

Superfund Exemption Rescues Scrap Recyclers 

Barry Shanoff

Scrap recyclers cheered when President Clinton signed a fiscal year 2000 omnibus appropriations bill last November. Tucked into the lengthy and crowded...

Recovered Paper Industry Dots the Internet, The 

William Moore

With the surge of e-commerce on the Internet, dot-coms continue to scour for a niche they can sink their teeth into. So, it's no surprise that the recovered...

Booming Cities Keep Recycling Rates High 

Jill Slovin Ullman

Increased traffic, noise and pollution all affect communities facing dramatic growth, but one group of cities and counties is concerned about another...

RECYCLING: Calculating the Value of Source Reduction 

Hope Pillsbury

While source reduction is a logical way to save natural resources and money, it's difficult to measure its success. To help solve this problem, the U.S....

Growing Compost Profits 

Melanie A. Lasoff

Composting is a "weird little business," according to Matt Cotton, president of Integrated Waste Management Consulting, Nevada City, Calif., and board...

Trend Setters: Recovering C&D 

Kelly McArthur Ingalls

The key to lessening landfill dependency isn't simply recovering materials, but being able to sell what you recover. As a result, municipalities have...

CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION: Salvaging Goodwill 

Aaron DeWeese

"I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," jokes the Reuse People founder and president Ted Reiff as he describes being in Tijuana, Mexico in 1993...

RECYCLING: An Artful Approach to Recycling Education 

Loriee D. Evans

A snake-like string of aluminum soda cans slither around the cardboard sculpture, culminating in a snake's head with its forked tongue flickering over...

Does Pay-As-You Throw Pay Off? 

Christina DiMartino

Although pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) has a surprisingly long history, today its momentum is increasing. Word-of-mouth is spreading far and wide, with communities...

RECYCLING: Taking Recycling to Toronto's Streets 

Geoff Rathbone

In a citywide effort to make recycling accessible on the streets of Toronto, this year the city will install 3,500 combination recycling and garbage containers...

Boring is Good 

Kivi Leroux

After the volatile post-consumer commodity markets of the mid-1990s, some might consider the last year of the 20th century rather boring. But to recyclers...

CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION: Recycling America's Land 

Judy Sheahan

While Brownfields can be difficult to find, can incur liabilities and can be expensive to rehabilitate, there are solutions that make redeveloping such...

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - and Reprocess 

Dee NaQuin

Federal enforcement is coming soon to a little-known niche of the medical waste industry. In February, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Washington,...

RECYCLING: Making Buy-Recycled Work 

Carl Hursch

Pennsylvanians not only recycle, they buy recycled products, thanks to an aggressive, state sponsored program.Creating a Pennsylvania Recycling Media...

Recycling Rocks in L.A. 

Daniel Oliver Hackney

Home to Hollywood, the Lakers, the Dodgers, beautiful beaches and great weather, Los Angeles (L.A.) takes pride in another title - recycling world champions....

RECYCLING: Tire Cleanup Program Rolls Through Jersey 

June D. Bell

Keeping rural New Jersey clean has meant collecting tons of debris from roadsides, fragile wetlands and forests.Most of the waste is construction material,...

CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION: Paving Asphalt's Way for Roof-to-Road 

Russell K. Snyder

Recent technological advances have been made in recycling asphalt roofing waste, or shingles, into highway and road pavement. These include the improved...

FINANCE: Indiana Funds Recycling Progress 

Sarah Carney

To help reach its 50 percent waste diversion goal by 2001, the Indiana Department of Commerce, Indianapolis, is offering newly expanded zero-interest...

Recycling's War of Words 

Kivi Leroux

One of the latest punches in recycling's war of words was thrown on Nov. 5, 1999 - this time by conservative commentator Betsy Hart. In a column, "Recycling...

RECYCLING: California Uses Internet to Recycle Waste 

Dan Eaton

Since 1992, the California Integrated Waste Management Board's California Materials Exchange (CalMAX) program has connected the "haves" with the "have...

Ridding Virginia of the Stump Dump 

Rod Tyler

Working as a builder for more than 20 years, Bill Stinson of Richmond, Va., was all too familiar with the woody debris that could be created from land...

Not a Paper Tiger 

WASTE AGE STAFF

Several years ago, The Peltz Group decided to focus on its core business - buying waste paper and selling it to paper mills and making the investments...

A Special Effort for a Special Waste 

Laura Macpherson

Managing small quantities of household hazardous waste (HHW) can be tedious. Complying with state and federal regulations and worker training and education...

COMPOST: Better, Faster, Cheaper Cleanups 

Jean Schwab

There is an inexpensive and effective method to remediate many contaminated surface waters, soils, air, streams and reservoirs: compost technology/bioremediation.Mature...