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New Jersey Recycling Facility Re-Opens Following $47M Redevelopment
2024-05-01 13:00:00| Waste Age
The Atlantic Coast Recycling has reopened its recycling processing facility in Passaic, New Jersey following a year-long redevelopment.
Category: Energy and Environment
Wynn Resorts Details Waste Reduction in 2023 Sustainability Report
2024-04-30 13:45:00| Waste Age
Wynn Las Vegas announced a 41 percent diversion rate of waste to landfill. Along with Encore Las Vegas, the company's properties in the city feature two luxury hotel towers with a total of 4,748 hotel rooms, suites, and villas. The company reported that trained employees and expert partners hand-separate recycling, compost, and reusables from landfill materialmaximizing the quantity of recovered material.
Category: Energy and Environment
Retail Giant Albertsons and Surplus Food Tech Developer Copia Share Food Recovery Trade Secrets
2024-04-30 13:04:59| Waste Age
n a WasteExpo Food Recovery Forum Fireside Chat: Creating Less Waste and More Hope, two pioneering industry leaders will illuminate on whats transpiring within their operations; show how companies donating their surplus food are coming out ahead; and unpack whats happening in the food recovery space at large. Presenters Melissa Kral, senior manager, sustainability, Albertsons and Kimberly Smith, CEO, Copia will tackle these hot industry topics and more on Tuesday, May 7, 2:45-3:30 p.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Category: Energy and Environment
Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Launches Glass Recycling for Kentucky Derby
2024-04-30 13:00:00| Waste Age
Category: Energy and Environment
Sphera's Near-Term Science-Based Emissions Reduction Target Receives SBTi Validation
2024-04-30 13:00:00| Waste Age
Category: Energy and Environment
Kansas City Trash Bins Get Bigger, Concern for Effective Recycling Grows
2024-04-30 13:00:00| Waste Age
Kansas City, Mo. is rolling out new trash bins to residents to help prevent litter and other issues stemming from bagged trash on the streets.
Category: Energy and Environment
NFL Draft Stage Materials to be Recycled, Donated to Local Dog Rescue Non-Profit
2024-04-30 13:00:00| Waste Age
The NFL Draft has come and gone, leaving behind a lot of questions for the Atlanta Flacons and what will become of the massive stage built for the event? Fortunately, we can answer one of those burning questions.
Category: Energy and Environment
Driving Excellence in Waste Transport: How to Lead the Way with Service, Savings, Safety, and Sustainability
2024-04-30 13:00:00| Waste Age
Trucks are your biggest investmentare you utilizing them to the best of your ability? How can Waste & Recycling service providers get more from every truck and how does that improve overall business margins?
Category: Energy and Environment
WasteNot Composts Liam Donnelly Dreams Big
2024-04-29 14:31:26| Waste Age
Liam Donnellys dreams are electric. His company WasteNot Compost, offers zero-emissions compost collection service for residential and business clients in the Chicago area. In this Q&A, Donnelly, CEO and founder, and Waste360 40 Under 40 award winner, discusses how he started WasteNot Compost as a teen, and how his commitment to sustainability has continued to be a driving force for the growing company.
Category: Energy and Environment
Recycling Works. If We Dont Counter the Naysayers, It Wont
2024-04-29 14:11:23| Waste Age
Youve probably seen a newspaper, television, or online article insisting that recycling isnt working. They say what we put in our recycling bins doesnt get recycled. Instead, it ends up in landfills. Some of these stories come from organizations with an axe to grind against plastic products. They fear that successful plastic recycling will undercut their efforts to eliminate plastics, so they insist plastics cant be recycled. Some come from reporters who pass them on without taking the time to fact check them. Others pop up in letters to the editor or in online comments.
Category: Energy and Environment