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 ...
The Zero Waste Development and Expansion Act of 2017
By Bob Gedert, SWEEP Steering Committee Member and President of the National Recycling Coalition A key driver in the redevelopment of domestic recycling infrastructure is ...
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 ...
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 ...