By Duncan Watson, Assistant Public Works Director, City of Keene, NH & Member SWEEP Steering Committee A running joke circulated during my graduate school days that prompted critical thinking on […]
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 unique and sometimes fatal […]
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, Principal, Upland Road LLC. Founder and […]
By Rob Watson, Principal, Upland Road LLC. Founder & President SWEEP Standard In Part 1 of this article, we discussed how landfill diversion rates are stagnant, single stream contamination is […]
Mike Durfor & Duncan Watson, who are, respectively, Executive Director of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association and Assistant Public Works Director, City of Keene, NH As public budgets come […]
By Rob Watson, Principal, Upland Road LLC. Founder & President SWEEP Standard When materials are separate and relatively clean, they are called feedstocks. When they are mashed together after discarding, […]
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 across the value chain gathered […]
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 discarded materials from residential […]
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 most recent estimate came in […]
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 conceiving the initial SWEEP […]
A world free of waste, where materials are continually utilized for their full benefit without causing human health problems, environmental degradation or requiring excessive economic investment.