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Byline: Pete Fehrenbach U.N. Emission Program: Unevenflow The New York Times published an interesting story the week before last about problems surfacing in an international emission credit trading program sponsored [...]

Since implementing curbside recycling in the early 1990s, southern Nevada annually is recycling about 2 percent of its solid waste, woefully below Nevada's 25 percent goal. The Southern Nevada Recycling [...]

Industries generating scrap waste - including the rubber sector - need to look at viable solutions for disposing of it, given the rising costs of transportation and tipping fees. Companies [...]

When Special Counsel Scott Bloch announced that conditions at Unicor's federal prison e-waste recycling facilities appeared unreasonable, Bloch confirmed what prisoners, prison guards and their family members have been telling [...]

A San Francisco Bay area outfit is using heavy metal to help mitigate global warming. It is not a grunge band raising funds and awareness through its music, rather a [...]

Many of the nation's growing cities face a budgetary and environmental crisis - aging sewage infrastructure that wasn't built to meet today's environmental standards. The cities facing the largest problems [...]

Sooey! Jail wardens in a Washington, D.C., suburb are on the lookout for a cooperative pig farmer or two. This is no sting operation. They'd prefer to feed inmates' food [...]

More people on the go and a greater awareness increased North American rechargeable battery recycling last year. In 2005, the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. recycled nearly 10 percent more rechargeable [...]

The name of this company says it all: UsedCardboardBoxes.com. Marty Metro, founder and president of the company, figures he can save consumers half the cost of boxes and still have [...]

A Southern California municipality and trash hauler H&C Disposal Co. disagree significantly about payment of city franchise fees. Under one interpretation, H&C withheld payment of more than $450,000 in Hawthorne [...]

It may be put-up or shut-up time for U.S. electronics recyclers. Awareness of electronics recycling is higher than ever, and the industry needs to strike while the iron is hot, [...]

Be it a shot in the arm or a kick in the butt, a Chicago official is looking for a change to improve the city's residential recycling program. Alderman Tom [...]

Sometimes the best of intentions just isn't enough. Saddled with mounting debt, Richmond, Va.-based Tire Recyclers Inc. has ceased operations and stuck the state with a $500,000 mess. The Virginia [...]

Scrap tire recycling is winning the war against stockpiles and illegal dumps, but the industry continues to battle states for money to keep the programs going. States and tire manufacturers [...]

Paper recyclers can either jump into the shredding business or watch as part of their business erodes before their very eyes. Continued and increased emphasis on document destruction is forcing [...]

By the end of May, the state of Ohio had cleaned up 30 million scrap tires within its borders in a concerted 14-year effort, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection [...]

Pushed by increasingly tight supply and a booming export market to China, the plastics recycling sector is gearing up for an unusual lobbying effort. The main trade group for bottle [...]

Duo purchases firm that processes oil Hazleton, Pa. - A 42-year-old recycling company, Hazleton Oil & Environmental, was recently sold to Sloane Six and Scott Clemens. The facility serves industrial [...]

In this age of fast-moving technological innovations, five years may seem like an eternity to develop and implement a field computer system to handle hazardous waste shipments. But representatives from [...]

Budget cuts are threatening recycling programs in the nation's most populous cities, and two of Ohio's largest cities may be the latest victims. Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell plans to discontinue [...]

In January, two of the country's largest recycling companies came together to form Recycle America Alliance, a company with about 3,000 employees and 80 recycling facilities handling 8 million tons [...]

Heightened environmental awareness and fear of bad publicity should cause large generators of electronic scrap to think twice before choosing a contractor to handle the material. Electronics recycling trade groups, [...]

The country's largest consumer, the federal government, is developing procurement and disposition guidelines for electronics, but the recycling industry may not be ready to handle the government's glut of material. [...]

The French parent company of Onyx North America Corp. will divest part of the company to help lower debt. Vivendi Universal SA announced a plan to sell part of its [...]

Times are getting tough, even for one of recycling's juggernauts. Seattle, looked up to by many communities for its residential and commercial recycling efforts, posted a 39 percent recycling rate [...]

Wisconsin has launched a program to collect and recycle mercury switches from automobiles before they can contaminate the environment. Although automakers have pledged to phase out the mercury switches in [...]

The National Recycling Coalition isn't your typical business association. The group advocates better use of the world's resources and improving the environment rather than promoting a particular industry. Its members [...]

Columbus, Ohio - The blurred line of liability makes many industrial waste generators hesitant to explore recycling alternatives, but product liability laws could benefit generators. Industrial byproducts are regulated as [...]

Columbus, Ohio - Communication between industry and regulators is essential to beneficially reuse industrial byproducts, but the two sides don't always speak the same language. Members from both groups gathered [...]

Allied pays Mass. workers unpaid wages Boston - Allied Waste Industries Inc. will pay more than $464,000 in unpaid wages to about 300 workers, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly said. [...]

With 15 percent turnover in its military population and the rapid growth of its 1.5 million civilian population, the municipalities of the five-county region of southeastern Virginia known as Hampton [...]

The soda bottle tossed away by a U.S. Navy seaman soon may protect his ship. At least one Navy vessel on the James River is buffeted from its pier by [...]

For months, a pile of blue shag, brown braided and neon plush carpets has piled up by Virginia Beach's landfill, but the city is literally at a loss as to [...]

Cherokee, Iowa - When Marvin Wernimont lost his job at a grocery warehouse six years ago, he never expected to discover his new career while searching for a way to [...]

Irving, Texas - Sound environmental practices at IMCO Recycling Inc. lead to quality products. After all, it's corporate policy. The Texas-based recycling company, which tops the Waste News Recycling Rankings [...]

Gardner, Mass. - Electronicycle Inc., a Massachusetts electronics recycler, expanded its operations last month to keep up with the company's rapid growth. The company moved to a 50,000-sq.-ft. plant in [...]

Portland, Ore. - Willamette Industries Inc., even with three new board members backed by rival Weyerhaeuser Co., is still signaling an independent course. Weyerhaeuser successfully lobbied to have its slate [...]

I've never been to Ottawa. But an older man I ran into at my barbershop last week sure has. If fact, as he sat back in the chair letting Barber [...]