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Seattle Recycling Laws Take Effect

Stephen Ursery

A set of recycling laws took effect in Seattle on Jan. 1. Under the laws, city residents and businesses must recycle paper and cardboard. ...

Ohio EPA Approves Rumpke's Landfill Expansion

Stephen Ursery

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has approved the 95-acre expansion of Cincinnati-based Rumpke Consolidated Companies’ landfill in Colerain Township. ...

Ameresco And Santa Cruz County, Calif., To Launch LFGE Project

Stephen Ursery

Ameresco Inc., Framingham, Mass., is joining with Santa Cruz County, Calif., in a landfill-gas-to-energy project. Under the terms of the agreement, the firm will build a plant at the county’s Buena Vista Landfill. ...

Michigan County Fights New Jersey Trash

Wendy Angel

Michigan continues to fight out-of-state trash, this time battling New Jersey waste being shipped into Wayne County. ...

Mississippi Counties to Lose State Solid Waste Funding

Wendy Angel

Mississippi’s budget woes may have a detrimental effect on household hazardous waste and tire collection campaigns in 2005. ...

Jeffrey Morris Of Sound Resource Management To Speak At SWANA Symposium

Stephen Ursery

Jeffrey Morris of Seattle-based Sound Resource Management will deliver a keynote address on Feb. 7, 2005, at the Solid Waste Association of North America’s Winter Technical Symposium in West Palm Beach, Fla. ...

SWANA Joins Renewable Energy Business Alliance

Stephen Ursery

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has joined with representatives of other renewable energy industries to lobby for an extension and increase of tax credits for all renewable energy sources, including landfill gas and waste-to-energy projects. ...

Pennsylvania Awards Recycling Performance Grants

Stephen Ursery

Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty has announced that the state has awarded $2.1 million in performance grants to 34 communities for their recycling efforts in 2002. ...

WASTEC, Waste Recruiters Team Up To Create Online Job Center

Stephen Ursery

The Waste Equipment Technology Association (WASTEC), Washington, D.C., and Waste Recruiters, Burleson, Texas, will partner to develop an online employment center for WASTEC’s Web site. ...

Chicago City Council Renews Landfill Moratorium

Stephen Ursery

The Chicago City Council has voted to renew the city’s two-decades-old moratorium on new and expanding landfills for another two years, according to a report in the Chicago Daily Southtown newspaper. ...

WASTEC To Offer Course On Building Competitive Company

Stephen Ursery

The Washington, D.C.-based Waste Equipment Technology Association is offering a training course focusing on the fundamentals of building and sustaining a competitive company in the current business environment. ...

Michigan Recycling Bill Faces Controversy

Wendy Angel

State and local officials have mixed reactions to a bill recently passed by the Michigan legislature that creates a statewide recycling coordinator position....

Bush Names EPA Administrator To Head Health And Human Services

Stephen Ursery

President George W. Bush has nominated Michael Leavitt, the administrator of the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ...

Waste Management To Sell Landfill To BFI Canada

Stephen Ursery

Waste Management of Canada Corporation, a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc., Houston, has agreed to sell its Ridge Landfill near Chatham, Ontario, Canada, to BFI Canada for approximately $90 million (U.S.) ...

Donald Slager To Become President Of Allied Waste

Stephen Ursery

Allied Waste Industries Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced that Donald Slager, the company’s chief operating officer (COO), will president of the firm on Jan. 3. He will remain COO. ...

ESSC And ISRI To Work Together To Eliminate Steel Trade Barriers

Stephen Ursery

The Emergency Steel Scrap Coalition (ESSC) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), both of which are based in Washington, D.C., have announced that they will undertake a joint effort to eliminate global trade barriers affect steel scrap. ...

Waste Age Now Accepting Entries For Annual Design Contest

Staff Reports

Waste Age is accepting entries for its 27th Annual Equipment Color & Design Contest. Entries must be received in our office by Feb. 15, 2005. Winners will appear in the April 2005 issue. ...

PVC Disposal Crisis On The Horizon, Report Warns

Stephen Ursery

The Center for Health, Environment & Justice, Falls Church, Va., has released a report that claims the United States is on the brook of a "waste crisis" because at least 70 billion pounds of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic will be ready for disposal in the coming decade. ...

War Over Chicago Landfill Heats Up

Stephen Ursery

Neighborhood activists from Chicago’s Southeast Side are continuing their campaign against Waste Management of Illinois’ plans for its CID Landfill. ...

University Of Georgia Launches Recycling Project

Stephen Ursery

The University of Georgia has launched a pilot project aimed at getting its students to recycle, according to the Red and Black student newspaper. ...

Allentown, Pa., Cracks Down On Downtown Litterbugs

Stephen Ursery

The city of Allentown, Pa., has launched a pilot project in which two inspectors will roam the city’s downtown area and cite residents and businesses that do not keep trash properly contained on their properties. ...

Appeals Court Allows SWANA And NSWMA To File Brief Supporting RD&D Rule

Stephen Ursery

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has granted the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Md., and the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), Washington, D.C., permission to file a joint amicus brief in a lawsuit brought by the Madison, Wis.-based GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN). ...