Should We Recycle Everything? What is the Value System of Recycling?
Susan Robinson, Sr Public Affairs Director at WM and SWEEP Co-Chair From the earliest days of recycling we’ve seen a healthy conversation among cities, recyclers ...
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Don’t Forget About the Workers Who Process Your Trash and Recycling
By Michael Mignano, Senior Research Analyst, International Brotherhood of Teamsters The June 2015 report, “Sustainable and Safe Recycling: Protecting Workers Who Protect the Planet,” revealed ...
The Federal Budget Should Support Expansion of America’s Recycling Infrastructure
By Bob Gedert, President, National Recycling Coalition; Senior Recycling Consultant, RRS; SWEEP Steering Committee Member In the President’s proposed fiscal 2018 budget, the Environmental Protection ...
WasteDive Interview: NRRA Executive Director Mike Durfor on the realities of recycling
The Northeast is often cited as a highly ambitious region when it comes to organics diversion and other materials management policies. While much of this ...
Recyclable Products Need Convenient Recycling Programs
By Adam Gendell, Associate Director Sustainable Packaging Coalition, GreenBlue & SWEEP Steering Committee Member Of all the sustainability attributes that marketing departments consider putting on a ...
Talkin’ Trash: What is the key to higher recycling rates?
As more cities set high diversion rate targets that can be challenging to achieve, some industry leaders view mixed waste processing as a clear solution. ...
What We’ve Got Here, Is Failure to Separate (Part 3 of 3)
The Road to Sustainable Materials Management Does Not Go Through Business As Usual By Rob Watson, Principal, Upland Road LLC. Founder & President SWEEP Standard ...
SWEEP—The Solid Waste Environmental Excellence Protocol—Announces Co-Chairs of the National Steering Committee
The Solid Waste Management Environmental Excellent Protocol (SWEEP) is pleased to announce that Susan Robinson, Senior Public Affairs Director for Waste Management, and Rob Watson, ...
What We’ve Got Here, Is Failure to Separate (Part 2 of 3)
By Rob Watson, Principal, Upland Road LLC. Founder & President SWEEP Standard In Part 1 of this article, we discussed how landfill diversion rates are ...
How to Ensure that Waste and Recycling Contracts Are Fair
Mike Durfor & Duncan Watson, who are, respectively, Executive Director of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association and Assistant Public Works Director, City of Keene, NH ...
What We’ve Got Here, Is Failure to Separate (Part 1 of 3)
By Rob Watson, Principal, Upland Road LLC. Founder & President SWEEP Standard When materials are separate and relatively clean, they are called feedstocks. When they ...
Lifecycle Thinking Across the Value Chain
By Susan Robinson, Waste Management’s Senior Public Affairs Director and Co-Chair of SWEEP’s Steering Committee In early February, a group of over 100 stakeholders from ...