This week’s articles highlight the difficulties in building markets for recovered materials, from the need for adequate infrastructure to process recovered materials, to restrictions on ...
Landfills face increasing challenges both operationally and legally. In recent years, federal grants to support landfill methane reductions had been the norm, but the Washington ...
The first SWEEP Newsletter of each month focuses on larger, longer-term issues facing the waste industry. In August we are looking at the growth of ...
Partial realization of theories around EPR, PFAS mitigation, and food waste recovery are in the news this week. The twin theories of EPR are that ...
Policy and consumer demands are moving forward on multiple fronts, from staggered state EPR and right-to-repair deadlines to renewed consumer interest in textile reuse. But ...
Roll-ups and investor portfolio acquisitions continue across the country, which could make it easier to coordinate on — or block — issues of industry-wide concern ...
Materials management is no longer just a local operations issue. Scrap trade policy, landfill siting, and recycling contamination all reveal a system under strain from ...
With the legal and regulatory frameworks governing recycling and disposal being rewritten in real time, this week’s newsletter captures an industry approaching a policy inflection ...
While the basic structure of the waste management industry has not changed much in the last 50 years, within the last decade new challenges — ...
Waste industry performance targets tend to be more aspirational than operational. Colorado is changing that. From first-in-the-nation EV battery EPR with specific mineral recovery rates, ...
…but in practice, there usually is. This week’s newsletter arrives at a moment of structural tensions in waste and recycling policy. Courts and legislatures in ...
Many of the performance shortfalls in waste management trace back to structural problems, not effort or intention. Systems largely designed in the 1980s and ’90s ...
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