What We're Reading
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Feb 20, 2025
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Manufacturing Dive
Lutnick confirmed as commerce secretary.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
‘Buried drums’: Plastic plant waste left across Cincinnati region.
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Cincinnati Business Courier
Rumpke Waste plans new $15M office in Colerain Township, Ohio.
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Waste Today
Washington, D.C., installs 30 food waste smart bins to support composting.
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CityView
Waste Energy Corp. plans to open facility that turns plastic to diesel in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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WUSF
EPA faces lawsuit after allowing Mosaic to build Florida test road with phosphate waste byproducts.
Feb 19, 2025
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Salem Statesman Journal
Oregon may require hospitals, schools and others to compost food waste.
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Concord Monitor
New Hampshire lawmakers agree on landfill pause, split on duration.
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CBS Baltimore
Howard County, Maryland, residents concerned by proposed W.R. Grace & Co. plastic recycling plant.
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ESG Dive
Federal judge sides with Biden Labor Dept. on ESG fiduciary rule.
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Financial Times
EU cracks down on fast fashion and food waste.
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Inside Climate News
Railroad Commission approves more waste disposal in East Texas.
Feb 18, 2025
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Occupational Health & Safety
Trump to nominate former Amazon, UPS executive as OSHA administrator.
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Inside Climate News
Can Title VI of the Civil Rights Act stand up to Trump’s executive orders on environmental justice?
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CBS Los Angeles
Demonstrators block trucks with fire debris from entering publicly owned landfill in Agoura Hills, California.
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NBC Montana
Bozeman, Montana, to launch weekly curbside organics collection.
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INC
New app creates marketplace to tackle food waste at large venues.
Feb 14, 2025
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Supply Chain Dive
Trump orders reciprocal tariffs on all countries.
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The Baltimore Banner
Maryland wants to stop subsidizing its trash incinerators. Will they close?
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The Seattle Times
Washington state bill could require testing biosolids for PFAS.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
‘Trash soup’ fills this old landfill after storms. The Utah Inland Port Authority plans to clean it up.
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Oklahoma Voice
Opinion: Oklahoma lawmaker risks public health with bill that would freeze air quality standards for trash incineration.
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New York Times
Howells offers to buy South Wales landfill he believes contains a lost Bitcoin wallet worth $800M.
Feb 13, 2025
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E&E News by POLITICO
DOGE lands at EPA.
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Local 10
‘Horrible mistake’: Environmentalists trash talk of ditching recycling in Miami.
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Waste Today
Viably makes depackaging system available in California.
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The Business Journal
Goodwill, GreenBoard team up for e-waste recycling in Ohio.
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Gothamist
Brooklyn, New York, residents blanketed by dust want city’s concrete recycling facility shut down.
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CBS 19
Tyler, Texas, expands recycling center to accept all plastics in partnership with Cyclix.
Feb 12, 2025
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Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon legislators want to understand harms of ‘forever chemicals’ from treated sewage on farms.
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Waste Today
Healthcare Waste Institute, part of NWRA, issues statement in support of CDC.
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ESG Dive
Acting SEC chair asks court not to schedule climate rule arguments.
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Waste 360
Multistakeholder group looks for systemwide answers to food waste problems.
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First Coast News
Jacksonville, Florida, city council approves doubling of residential garbage fee.
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Seacoast Online
Kennebunk, Maine, to switch from Casella to Ecomaine for waste services after vote.
Feb 11, 2025
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ProPublica
Inside Trump’s EPA: What employees say about the decision to stay or go.
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Waste Today
Castillo Engineering selected for landfill solar projects in New York.
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NNY360
Potsdam, New York, eyeing food waste collection test program, would need 120 households.
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POLITICO
Trump’s power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit.
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Financial Times
Waste Wars: the dark side of the global ‘recycling’ economy.
