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 ...
Recycling
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...