Arlene Karidis

Mount Airy

Writer, Editor and Media Consultant at Freelance

Arlene Karidis is an environmental reporter for Waste360 and a health reporter for several regional and national newspapers, lifestyle and trade publications.

Articles

Federal Judge Blocks EPA From Terminating Billions in Awarded Decarbonization Funds

1 week ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

A federal court judge ruled on Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot take back billions in climate grants awarded to several nonprofits that the agency later froze. The plaintiffs are also to receive disbursements of expenses incurred prior to the freeze. Here’s some history with a few twists and turns in an ongoing battle leading up to Wednesday’s rule.
What May be “in Stone” and What Could Change

1 week ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

A lot has transpired on the PFAS policy front lately, with more rules slated to take effect this year. In this Q&A Ken Sansone, an attorney at SL Environmental Law Group, touches on what’s likely down the pike and what it will mean for water utilities especially. He broaches the possibility of pending legal challenges related to their implementation under a new administration. And explains how some states are taking the lead to clamp down on PFAS.
How Industry Titans Are Working to Make Edible Food Recovery “The Norm”

1 week ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

How do you make meal recovery and donation the “norm”? That’s a good question to ask if the goal is to tackle two big problems at scale that are found almost everywhere: food waste and food insecurity. In this Waste360 Q&A, Hélène Lanctuit, CEO of Share My Meals, discusses work she and some big brands, governments, and other stakeholders are waist deep in to expand recovery across New Jersey. The hopeful ambition is to build a scalable model that can be replicated nationally.
San Francisco Taps Technology to Manage Waste and Recycling Smarter and Faster

1 week ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

San Francisco spans a mere 47 miles, but it’s dense; it’s hilly; and flanked with narrow, heavily traveled streets. It’s a trying landscape for the city’s street cleaners and waste and recycling haulers—especially given the diversity among communities that they serve. There is no one-size approach to managing the mountains of trash and recyclables in this dynamic town.
Three Pioneers' Trailblazing Food Recovery Work

1 week ago | morningstar.com | Arlene Karidis

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / April 11, 2025 / Originally published by Waste360. By Arlene Karidis. Divert and Safeway, Albertson's leading banner, recently teamed to tailor food recovery strategies to operational needs at a few Northern California Safeway stores. The project entailed leveraging store-specific data generated by Divert to uncover new opportunities for waste reduction and outlining strategies for ongoing improvement.
Three Pioneers’ Trailblazing Food Recovery Work

1 week ago | apnews.com | Arlene Karidis

PRESS RELEASE: Paid Content from 3BL. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Originally published by Waste360. By Arlene Karidis. Divert and Safeway, Albertson’s leading banner, recently teamed to tailor food recovery strategies to operational needs at a few Northern California Safeway stores. The project entailed leveraging store-specific data generated by Divert to uncover new opportunities for waste reduction and outlining strategies for ongoing improvement.
Trump Administration Halts Billions in Funds for Environmental Justice Projects

2 weeks ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

The U.S. EPA has frozen and or terminated billions in funding for communities identified as disproportionately impacted by pollution. This executive order is the latest environmental policy move prompting a spate of protests and lawsuits—and leaving community-led projects in various developmental stages hanging. Those projects range from air and water pollution monitoring and remediation to the buildout of emissions-reducing infrastructure—all centered in marginalized communities.
How Technology and Data Are Driving Food Recovery

2 weeks ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

Drive California’s SB 1383, requiring organic waste reduction, has prompted the generation of state- and jurisdiction-specific data around surplus food and food recovery that never existed before. Susan Miller-Davis, of the Food Recovery Initiative, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, will explain how the group she leads is leveraging that data at a WasteExpo session: Using Data & Technology to Optimize Food Waste Prevention and Edible Food Recovery Tuesday, May 6at Las Vegas ConventionCenter.
WM Execs Talk Logistics

2 weeks ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

Roughly 15,000 trucks head out of WM depots every morning en route to locations across North America – in 2024 they performed nearly 1.5 billion residential pickups, came for well over 5 million roll-offs, and collected nearly 682 million yards of commercial waste. Then comes the Herculean job of transferring the assorted streams to any of hundreds of transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, and landfills, among points along a sprawling network.
SoCalGas Enters First-of its-Kind RNG Procurement Agreement

2 weeks ago | waste360.com | Arlene Karidis

SoCalGas, California’s largest natural gas utility, has awarded Organic Energy Solutions (OES) the first renewable natural gas (RNG) project approved by the California Public Utilities Commission under SB 1440. The law requires the state’s investor-owned natural-gas utilities to procure a certain percentage of RNG, and for those projects to be developed in California.