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 ...
Blogs
Environmental Leading Practice: Color-Coding Recycling Collection
By Bob Gedert, SWEEP Steering Committee Member, President National Recycling Coalition Using “leading practices” in recycling collection can possibly achieve diversion of 90 percent of ...
Peak Packaging: the Milestone Nobody Knew to Celebrate
By Adam Gendell, Associate Director Sustainable Packaging Coalition, GreenBlue & SWEEP Steering Committee Member The U.S. generates a lot of packaging waste each year. The EPA’s ...
Sustainability Needs Worker Safety
By Mike Williams, Vice President, Strategic Development BlueGreen Alliance, Former SWEEP Steering Committee Member Sustainability protocols often focus exclusively environmental impacts. So, when we were ...
SWEEP to Drive Sustainable Market Transformation
By Rob Watson, Chief Science Officer, EcoHub LLC; Founder & Co-Chair, SWEEP Steering Committee All markets can be transformed through the artful application of market ...
Landfill Waste Costs Continued to Rise in 2016
By James Thompson, Principal, Waste Business Journal; Member, SWEEP Steering Committee The average price to landfill a ton of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the ...
Overcoming Obstacles to Municipal Recycling
By Duncan Watson, Assistant Public Works Director, City of Keene, NH Most industry estimates indicate that the US generates over 400 million tons of municipal ...
Defining Sustainable Materials Management for Local Communities
Twenty to thirty years ago when we were first thinking about city-wide recycling programs, we saw recycling as an important way to reduce our environmental ...