Ballot Draft: Municipal SWEEP Standard
The Ballot Draft of the SWEEP Municipal Standard is now open for comment until the end of April 2019. Only members of National Consensus Committee ...
Blogs
Glass: Half Empty or Half Full? Excerpt from 2018 NRRA Board of Trustees President’s Report
by Duncan Watson, President Northeast Resource Recovery Association Board of Trustees; Assistant City Manager, Keene, NH; Member, SWEEP Steering Committee Is this Glass Half Full ...
No End in Sight to US Landfill Cost Increases — Pacific Region to Experience Highest Growth.
America is faced with a perfect storm that risks accelerating growth in landfill costs: increased waste generation per capita, slowing approval of landfill capacity and ...
Recycling: Hang Together or Hang Separately
Reports of the death of recycling are greatly exaggerated. There is great chaos under heaven and the situation is excellent. Crisis equals opportunity. The oxen ...
Time is Running Out: The U.S. Landfill Capacity Crisis
By James Thompson, Waste Business Journal, SWEEP Steering Committee & Rob Watson, Chief Science Officer, Eco-Hub LLC. Founder & Co-chair SWEEP Standard. A pair of ...
It’s past time to address the safety and dignity of our sanitation workers
By Bob Gedert, Past-President of the National Recycling Coalition & SWEEP Steering Committee Member This article was originally published by Resource Recycling. On Feb. 1, 1968, ...
Measuring Carbon Savings is the Answer! What was the Question?
By Adam Gendell, Associate Director Sustainable Packaging Coalition, GreenBlue & SWEEP Steering Committee Member If your state reported that their waste diversion practices resulted in ...
What is the best use of recycled Glass? poll (1 min.)
[socialpoll id=”2486134″] Interested in learning more about how the SWEEP certification process can help your local government and materials management company become more sustainable ...
A Crisis Years in the Making
By Duncan Watson, Assistant Public Works Director, City of Keene, NH, President, Board of Trustees, Northeast Resource Recovery Association & Member SWEEP Steering Committee Trade ...
The Importance of Assessing Recycling Audit Residuals
By Jordan Fengel, Environmental Services Program Coordinator, Georgetown, TX. Member SWEEP Municipal Standard Committee The act of recycling is necessary, and that is a simple ...
Is it Diversion or Disposal? Paper & Paperboard
Please help us by filling out this quick survey. We will use your input to develop the SWEEP Standard! [os-widget path=”/sweep_admin/is-it-diversion-or-is-it-disposal” of=”sweep_admin” comments=”false”] Interested in ...
Waste Diversion needs Organics Diversion, and Organics Diversion Needs Compostable Packaging
There is no shortage of ambitious waste diversion goals, and several major cities are currently working towards 2020 milestones for high diversion or “zero waste” ...