Colin Staub

14 hours ago | resource-recycling.com | Colin Staub

California's state recycling agency will provide $10 million toward a facility sorting plastics with resin codes 2-7, additional multimillion dollar grants for several major MRF retrofits, and a handful of smaller awards for localities to install recycling collection containers. The funding, approved at CalRecycle's April 22 monthly meeting, comes from multiple pots of money earmarked for beverage container recycling improvements.

14 hours ago | resource-recycling.com | Colin Staub

As recycling companies seek to improve workplace safety amid an industry-wide increase in on-the-job fatalities, experts at a recent industry summit advised managers to focus their attention on - and for top executives, even to attend - the regular pre-shift safety meetings. That was one takeaway from the Waste Advantage Safety Summit, held in March, which was convened after a troubling rise in solid waste and recycling industry fatalities.

1 day ago | resource-recycling.com | Colin Staub

A pot of money created when California added wine and spirits bottles into its container redemption program is being used to fund glass recycling pilot projects, including a commercial collection program in the heart of wine country.

1 day ago | resource-recycling.com | Colin Staub

As recycling companies seek to improve workplace safety amid an industry-wide increase in on-the-job fatalities, experts at a recent industry summit advised managers to focus their attention on - and for top executives, even to attend - the regular pre-shift safety meetings. That was one takeaway from the Waste Advantage Safety Summit, held in March, which was convened after a troubling rise in solid waste and recycling industry fatalities.

1 week ago | resource-recycling.com | Colin Staub

A common complaint among MRF operators is that they have little meaningful contact with the packaging industry, despite dealing with headaches from that industry's products every single day. But as the SPC Impact packaging conference last week made clear, whether it's from regulatory compliance, public pressure on image-conscious brands or companies' own internal interest in recyclability, the recycling industry now has packaging manufacturers' attention in an unprecedented way.