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The 3GPP Plenary meetings in December 2023 focused on the progress of Release 18 (R18) features for public safety and planning for Release 19 (R19) features. The FirstNet Authority played an active role in advocating for the inclusion of a New Radio (NR) Sidelink multi-hop relaying feature in R19 to extend off-network wireless coverage for public safety. The meetings also discussed high-level considerations for 6G and endorsed several new features for R19, including satellite evolution, topological enhancements, and improved security. The R19 work is scheduled for completion in December 2025. [Extracted from the article]

The Kent County Department of Public Works is urging residents to properly dispose of old electronics ahead of the gift-giving season. People who are upgrading their electronics should not put them in traditional recycling bins, but instead take them to special drop-off locations provided by the DPW in Kent County, Michigan. The DPW emphasizes the importance of recycling or disposing of old items to protect the community and the environment. Additionally, the DPW suggests that working electronics can be donated to charities or sold. [Extracted from the article]

Auburn residents have been complaining about the Auburn Public Works recycling site, stating that the bins are constantly overflowing. Changes will be coming to recycling drop-off sites in Auburn, according to city leaders after local complaints. [Extracted from the article]

A year after a public outcry for slow and delayed recycling pick up, the Chesapeake City Council gave an update on its recycling program. This success has led the Department of Public Works to consider expanding the drop-off sites to more locations in the future. [Extracted from the article]

Yates, a 40 Under 40 award winner, discusses new public works initiatives in Birmingham, and shares some of his experiences and lessons learned during his career. Joshua Yates, director of Public Works, city of Birmingham in Alabama, oversees the main divisions of waste operations, horticulture operations, construction operations, facility services, animal control, code enforcement, and other functions. [Extracted from the article]

For the immediate future, all area recyclables are being diverted to Kent County's trash incinerator instead while the recycling facility is closed. Earlier this week, a sidewall collapsed at the Kent County Recycling and Education Center in Kent County, Mich., closing the facility completely and halting local recycling. [Extracted from the article]

Residents in St. Paul, Minn. are raising concerns after witnessing city snowplows allegedly aiming for and hitting curbside bins. Growing snow piles on narrow streets have made it difficult for plows to operate. [Extracted from the article]

As Baltimore's head of Department of Public Works steps down, officials begin to seek solutions to the city's recycling woes. The company found Baltimore is short nearly 50 drivers and 50 trucks. [Extracted from the article]

The advisors help farmer clients with planning and execution around marketing decisions and help keep them up to speed on the current rapidly-changing grain market situation - and how it impacts their operation. On many farms, we're entering one of the best times of year to work on internal improvements - the farm's off-season. Market process One business area of the farm that can benefit from a decision-making process is the farm's marketing. [Extracted from the article]

Cities and counties are taking multiple steps towards sustainability, says Curran Hughes, co-founder and president of Renegade Plastics, a fabric product manufacturer that offers an alternative to PVC (polyvinyl chloride)-coated fabrics. The firm's products can serve as tents or fabric structures because they emit no fumes but are durable, flexible, fire-retardant, lightweight, and easy to clean, transport and store. Alternatives to these could include coated polypropylene fabrics, like those made by Renegade, which do not contain PFAS, BPA or heavy metals, but are also more durable than polyethylene films, thereby reducing microplastic pollution.". [Extracted from the article]

Pittsburgh is attempting to still collect these items by offering designated days where residents can drop off these materials at the Department of Public Works Environmental Services facility. Electronics drop-offs will occur weekly while chemical drop-offs will be one weekend a month. [Extracted from the article]

Department of Public Works also said that residential drop-off centers and longer lines at the Quarantine Road Landfill, and the Northwest Transfer Station might be the case. The city of Baltimore is informing its residents that delays in trash pickup might occur as it works to upgrade its waste-to-energy incincerator - The Wheelabrator. [Extracted from the article]

The BCW's WIN program has identified 60 potential innovator partners looking to be paired locally to test a product or service and the process to match those innovators with businesses has begun. Yonkers, N.Y. - Last20, a Canadian social enterprise, will partner with the Yonkers Department of Public Works to test asphalt made with recycled plastics. According to Last20's website, the company replaces a portion of bitumen, the common binding agent in traditional pavement, with low-density polyethylene, one of the hardest plastics to recycle. [Extracted from the article]

B Arlington, VA b - National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) Chairman Ben Harvey testifies today before the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee at its hearing to examine legislative proposals to improve domestic recycling and composting programs, particularly in rural areas. ### B ABOUT NWRA b The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) represents the private sector waste and recycling services industry. [Extracted from the article]

Bulk trash pickup will not be affected. The pandemic is causing massive staff shortages at Baltimore's Department of Public Works, causing the city to scale back curbside collection efforts. [Extracted from the article]

Long Beach, CA - In response to California legislation mandating significant state-wide waste reduction, Los Angeles County awarded SCS Engineers a contract to help manage the County's most comprehensive and aggressive recycling and waste diversion efforts yet. "The Smart Business Recycling program signals that, for LA County, recycling and waste diversion are not just buzzwords", says Michelle Leonard, an SCS Engineers senior vice president. [Extracted from the article]

Clean Energy is a leader in the development and delivery of RNG, a sustainable fuel derived from organic waste, which will represent 33.3% of the hydrogen feedstock for Foothill Transit buses. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif --Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE), the country's largest provider of the cleanest fuel for the transportation market, announced it has won a competitive solicitation to design, construct, and maintain a hydrogen station and supply liquid hydrogen fuel for Foothill Transit, an environmentally-friendly bus service in Southern California that averages 14 million rides a year. [Extracted from the article]

The County's Department of Public Works hired SCS Engineers to design, permit, bid, and provide construction engineering for two transfer stations and a composting facility at the landfill. LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Santa Cruz County in California owns and operates the Buena Vista Landfill, which will reach capacity in approximately eight to ten years. [Extracted from the article]

DPW requires that multi-family buildings provide recycling collection to their residents, communicate with them annually, and ensure that janitorial staff are trained up on how the recycling program works. B WASHINGTON, DC -- b The District's ambitious zero waste goal of achieving 80% waste diversion by 2032 will be reached by residents and businesses city-wide recycling more, and better. To support the fast-growing multi-family sector in recycling successfully, the Department of Public Works (DPW) is launching a robust toolkit with resources to help apartment buildings, condominiums, and cooperatives deliver recycling programs to the more than 400,000 residents that call them home. [Extracted from the article]

Joe Giudice, public works director for the city of Phoenix, says the influx of new residents is driving a lot of construction in his community. More recently, Giudice served as the assistant public works director, responsible for leading the solid waste division, which provides direct services to more than 400,000 Phoenix households, while overseeing an annual budget of approximately $160 million and more than 600 employees. Giudice adds that Phoenix recently created an office of heat response and mitigation, led by a heat resiliency director. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how a Job Order Contracting (JOC) process helped the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) remove tons of sediment to repair the roadway and drainage system on House Rock Valley that was damaged following a 200-year monsoon that struck the area in August 2015. It presents the tasks that were completed at the seven repair sites by the contractor, S.J. Anderson.

Wilkes-Barre increased recycling rates and will soon mandate that glass, plastic and aluminum be separated from cardboard and newspaper. And Kingston has begun charging residents for recycling and is asking residents to drop off glass at the municipality's public works headquarters. [Extracted from the article]

Now, with the passage of Schedule D, better handling and compaction of the solid waste and the acquisition of 320 additional acres acquired from Bureau of Land Management, its lifespan has been extended 107 years. Dennis Strickland, Elko's public works director, believes the county should begin researching a future site because the process for the government to approve a new site is lengthy. The landfill serving Elko County Nevada handles the solid waste generated by households and businesses for almost the entire county. [Extracted from the article]

According to KQED, "Recology reported its incorrect accounting rates to Nuru in 2018, but Nuru did not follow up on the report." The case comes during an investigation of former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who federal authorities said took bribes from the company as rates increased. San Francisco's Attorney Office has reached a settlement with Recology, which the city alleges overcharged ratepayers $94.5 million since 2017. [Extracted from the article]

The FirstNet Authority also gathered insights from these engagements to ensure the FirstNet network is meeting public safety's communications needs now and in the future. Based on the Roadmap priorities, the FirstNet Authority took steps in 2020 to reinvest resources to advance the FirstNet network in ways that help public safety better perform their missions. [Extracted from the article]

Every municipality faces unique recycling challenges, driven by geography, demographics, infrastructure, and/ or policy. Atlanta, Ga. has a vigorous recycling mandate, but a not-as-robust recycling infrastructure. "The City of Atlanta has great access for single-family residents, but we want to offer access to everyone", says Kanika Greenlee, environmental programs director for the City of Atlanta, Public Works. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the initiation of Municipal Partnering Initiative (MPI) by local governments in Illinois in order to maximize their spending power. Topics discussed include contracts ranging from construction, public works and professional services, concerns for MPI such as funding sources, differing bid specifications, and job security, and public works contracts such as tree removal.

The article informs about the 5,000-mile road tour "Low & Slow Across America: A Road Trip through the Nation's Public Works" of the U.S. by author Dan McNichol in a 1949 Hudson car to analyze the funding made by department of public works officials and improvements to infrastructure. It informs that the tour was sponsored by the American Public Works Association and the magazine "Engineering News Record." The projects he visited include Ohio River Bridges project in Louisville, Kentucky.

Battle Creek, MI is piloting a recycling inspection program. After the third warning, the bin will be removed and the resident will no longer participate in the recycling program. [Extracted from the article]

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Omaha, Nebraska's recycling schedules. Due to revised pick up schedules, residents have been dumping garbage at drop-off sites and creating dump sites. [Extracted from the article]

An outbreak of COVID-19 has hit Baltimore's sanitation collectors. The Department of Public Work's Eastside Sanitation Yard was forced to close and quarantine its eastside routine service crews, which caused delays in trash pickup and residents are not happy. [Extracted from the article]

The Baltimore Department of Public Works is experiencing significant delays in trash collections because employees are refusing to report to work. Sanitation collectors are considered essential employees and the delays pose a new threat to the public health in the city of Baltimore. And the department is currently recruiting new laborers to fill positions for employees that do not return to work. [Extracted from the article]

The Los Angeles Department of Public Works said that its staff and hundreds of volunteers collected nearly 400 tons of trash between Friday and Tuesday, after recent protests against police brutality. "As we continue to provide services and support during a global pandemic, I'm proud of the dedicated members of our Department of Public Works family, who have once again stepped up and acted swiftly to aid in the city's emergency efforts", said Los Angeles Board of Public Works President Kevin James. [Extracted from the article]

As a result of more people staying home during the pandemic, Phoenix, Ariz. has seen an increase of 20% in the collection of organic and recyclable waste. "Here are some resources to sort of keep the kiddos occupied and learn about good recycling practices and things like that", said Giudice. [Extracted from the article]

A year into its single-stream recycling program, the city of Sarasota, Fla., reports that residents are properly putting the vast majority of recyclable material into their residential recycling carts. While the city's goal for the single-stream program is zero contamination, Sarasota officials are pleased with the results so far, according to Public Works GM Todd Kucharski. [Extracted from the article]

#CasellaCommunity #ThankYou pic.twitter.com/YjyUpXLvdJ - Casella (@CasellaWaste) April 10, 2020 And we love these videos that showcase the importance of frontline workers, and let everyone hear directly from them: From The Washington Post: This is what it's like to be a sanitation worker during the coronavirus outbreak "You all know as well as I do, you got a hard job. The trash must continue to get up." -Octavia French, sanitation worker From New York Post: The unsung heroes of the coronavirus pandemic: NYC's essential workers "It feels good to be here. -Lisa Ringgold, Sanitation Supervisor, Times Square Alliance "If we weren't doing our job, the city wouldn't be clean; it wouldn't be healthy.". [Extracted from the article]

Officials in Burlington, Vt., are considering implementing a consolidated system for collecting residential trash, recyclables and food scraps. The city of Burlington is holding a public meeting this month on a potential consolidated system for collecting residential trash, recyclables and food scraps. Currently the Department of Public Works collects residential recyclables and residents contract with trash haulers to collect their garbage and food scraps or they take them themselves to waste facilities. [Extracted from the article]

After the mayor of Omaha, Neb., rejected a bid from the city's current recycling processor, city councilmembers are now pushing for citywide recycling services to continue without interruption next year. The Omaha City Council sent a signal Tuesday to the mayor and Public Works officials that it wants to make sure recycling services continue without interruption next year, and for the city to find a way to keep Omaha recycling for the long term. The future of curbside recycling in the city is in limbo after Mayor Jean Stothert rejected a bid last month from the city's current processor, Firstar Fiber of Omaha. [Extracted from the article]

The world of work is undergoing dynamic change, in at least three major ways: First, according to Gallup, Gen Z and Millennial workers in 2021 comprised almost half the U.S. workforce. In addition, organizations could adopt more flexible work policies, such as permitting employees to work four 10-hour days, to work during non-traditional business hours, or other flexible arrangements. However, we posit that the forced adoption of remote work technologies and flexible work policies during the pandemic provides a roadmap for public organizations to address the changes occurring within the current workforce - if organizational leaders are willing to adapt. [Extracted from the article]

Geotab's Guide to Public Works Operations will walk you through how to fine-tune your public works fleet processes with telematics. Learn from other public works agencies across the US who have tackled some of their biggest fleet challenges with telematics to uncover opportunities for cost savings, right-sizing, and better resource management. [Extracted from the article]