Environmentalists were prepared last week to celebrate the passing of landmark legislation entitled the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. Senate Bill 54 and Assembly Bill 1080 promised to break…
Trash Talk
“This is a problem of production,” says Kreigh Hampel, Recycling Coordinator at Burbank Recycling Center. Single-serve food and drink purchases are amplifying our per person trash production. Suggestions?
With a new year comes fresh starts and new beginnings and the Waste Management GI Industries team invites its customers to make a commitment to the environment by adding “recycling right” to…
Do you know where your trash goes? Is your recycling really being recycled? Victoria Charles, a professor in the Sustainable Technologies Program at Santa Monica College, will present a program, “Wasted,” at…
…for now, recycling is a short-term answer as we cycle into the long-term solution of a sustainability plan. That is the purpose of this ongoing column, “Trash Talk,” that will appear in…
Recycling rules have changed. About a quarter of the waste material we put in our recycling bins ends up instead as landfill. China banned “foreign waste” beginning January 1, 2018, which leaves…
The tour of Waste Management’s Material Recycling Facility (MRF) was, to say the least, an eye-opener and comes highly recommended. If you’re not so inclined, go online (wm.com) where WM has an…