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Waste Management Inc. has launched new services and invested in recycling businesses in line with its sustainability goals. The company operates more than 100 recycling facilities in North America. Comments from executives are also given.

Chris Martin founded CleanScapes in 1997 because of a desire to make urban neighborhoods more appealing places to live in. Martin says their biggest differentiator from competitors is customer service. The company offers a program designed to eliminate the bins and containers in the alleys while also promoting increased waste diversion.

The hottest development in the recycling world during the past five years has been the movement toward single-stream collection of post-consumer recyclables. Using a host of new technologies, single-stream material [...]

The Golden State may have a laid-back reputation, but make no mistake--recycling is serious business in California. The state boasts one of the strongest, strictest commitments to municipal recycling in [...]

The article that started this series last month looked at many different kinds of 'recycling' that can occur with each individual electronics recycler. Unlike the recycling of, say, aluminum cans, [...]

ABC Disposal could be called a good corporate citizen of its home state of Massachusetts. In response to the state's promulgated desire to reach an 88 percent recycling goal, the [...]

Many companies that manufacture metal products can rightfully ask themselves several questions about the scrap processors they use, including: Are they getting paid for the correct amount for their scrap [...]

Along with the trend toward commingled curbside recycling programs, glass has been making news. Unfortunately for consumers of post-consumer cullet, it's often portrayed as the bad-guy in the single-stream story: [...]

Although large-scale co-composting tucked nicely into Burlington County, N.J.'s solid waste plans, the county discovered it wasn't affordable. When construction bids were received in 1992 for a 220-ton-per-day (tpd) capacity [...]

Could you be losing money by undercharging customers? Purchasing a scale could be the answer. Find out how recent buyers have used scales to improve their bottom line and customer [...]

Byline: Megan Greenwalt Looking to earn some extra cash during summer break, two college seniors put their heads together and came up with what would become a multimillion-dollar junk hauling [...]

One man runs a trash hauling operation in Minnesota. Another is part of a family-run garbage business in Connecticut. The third is the owner of an independent company operating out [...]

When all the beads have been tossed and the drinks have been tossed back, it is Sidney Torres IV's job to make sure the French Quarter is clean. And the [...]

Ven Poole knew enough about the waste industry that he wanted to become an aerospace engineer. And he knew enough about the waste industry that when it was time to [...]

Extra Services, Recycling Boost Commercial Collection With mandatory recycling laws waiting in the wings, commercial haulers prepare their customers with recycling programs and smart planning. Some would say it's been [...]

Ministers have confirmed that WRAP is working to encourage the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in packaging materials for food and drink. Recent trials have shown that it is possible [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson New guidance is available for the solid waste industry about how to deal with carcasses created by avian influenza. The eight-page document prepared by the National Solid [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson Not every car that BMW Manufacturing Co. will paint will be the same color. But the company is touting the paint shop at its Spartanburg, S.C., manufacturing [...]

Response to Hurricane Katrina by Allied Waste Industries Inc. will stand out in company history, said the man who headed up Allied's recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast. 'This was [...]

Well-known Kansans are cooperating in an innovative state Get Caught Recycling education campaign. 'Our goal is to reinforce the recycling behavior of Kansans,'' said Bill Bider, director of the Kansas [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson Towns along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi continue to recover from Hurricane Katrina to one degree or another. In Biloxi, more than two million cubic yards of [...]

This time: Landfills. The National Solid Wastes Management Association is seeking to explain the modern landfill with the group's newest white paper. 'Modern Landfills: A Far Cry from the Past'' [...]

Natural disasters create heartache and hardship. Lives and homes and businesses are devastated. But where there is tragedy, there also is an economic opportunity, as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [...]

Don't Mess with Texas. It's a phrase that has been invoked and emblazoned over the years to conjure up all sorts of images. But the real truth is that Don't [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson That's one expensive hog. A Harley-Davidson motorcycle signed by dozens of celebrities was auctioned off this month for charity by Waste Management Inc. to the tune of [...]

Does your wife know you bought a motorcycle for $800,000? NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno jokes with Waste Management Inc. CEO David Steiner about the company's auction purchase of [...]

Residential builders in and around Fort Wayne, Ind., haven't had much of a chance to divert their construction debris over the years. Essentially the leftovers from construction all headed to [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson Millions of children and their parents will be roaming the streets at the end of this month looking for a little bit of sugary heaven down the [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson America has never had to deal with the volume of debris created by Hurricane Katrina. Officials were zeroing in on more accurate waste estimates for both Louisiana [...]

Byline: Joe Truini After all the rootin', cheerin' and especially the drinkin', it's time for the recyclin'. Following Minnesota Twins baseball games and Minnesota Vikings football games, cleaning crews start [...]

People along the Gulf Coast face weeks, months, probably even years of work ahead of them as they struggle with the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. With New Orleans now [...]

A publicly funded initiative in the United Kingdom seeks private investment from overseas recycling companies in an effort to boost rates of recapturing U.K. resources. Representatives of the nonprofit Waste [...]

Denver is launching a new single-stream residential recycling program with an expanded material list to increase the city's waste diversion. Denver Recycles, a department of the Solid Waste Management Division, [...]