AOR Blog

09-06-2018

From Waste Today, by Adam Redling​

The Solid Waste Association of North America’s (SWANA’s) International Board unanimously approved a new...

09-05-2018

 
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Coastal Cart Grant Application Closes Sept. 21

 Looking for money to put carts on the ground? Live near a major body of water? You’re in luck! Funding is still available through The Recycling Partnership’s Coastal and Waterway Community Recycling Grant, which was developed to help out communities...

09-04-2018

From WasteDive, by Cole Rosengren

Mathy Stanislaus, former assistant administrator of the EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management under the Obama administration, delivered a complex and thought-provoking keynote talk at WASTECON in Nashville, Tennessee last week. 

Waste Dive spoke to him afterward, the first...

08-29-2018

From Resource Recycling Magazine, by Jared Paben

​Researchers have calculated substantial upsides from making products out of recycled PET, HDPE and PP instead of prime plastics.

Franklin Associates is conducting the research on behalf of the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR). APR’s president, Steve Alexander...

08-28-2018

From Resource Recycling, by Colin Staub

​The head of Waste Connections says the economics of recycling must change. Otherwise, companies’ sorting costs will further outpace the revenue they fetch from commodity sales.

During a keynote session at WasteCon 2018 last week in Nashville, Tenn., Ron Mittelstaedt, CEO of...

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