Megan Quinn

The Canadian company has expanded from a one-woman paper recycling operation to a business with five divisions, 19 MRFs and its own producer responsibility organization. CSO Paulina Leung talks future growth.

If signed, it will be the first EV EPR law in the country to set specific recovery rates for nickel, cobalt and lithium. It received bipartisan support from lawmakers and recyclers.

Film recycling systems need rapid upgrades to meet California's strict recycling laws under SB 54. A NERC webinar noted new pilot programs and funding initiatves to help.

Well-practiced manipulators have a way of drawing you in so you feel obligated to stick by their side, even though what they've done to you makes you feel you can't trust them.

A hauler franchise bill, plus bills to manage medium-format batteries, vape waste, food donations and metal shredder facilities, are still in play. The state’s legislative session ends Aug. 31.

The pyrolysis plant, planned for a Texarkana industrial park, received a boost from a state tax abatement program, but ultimately failed to gain traction.

The law will establish more collection, recycling and disposal options for vape pens, which recycling industry groups say are a major cause of facility fires. A producer responsibility organization must now create collection infrastructure.

Waste Dive’s eighth annual report analyzes compensation data for WM, Republic Services, Waste Connections, GFL Environmental, Clean Harbors, Enviri and Casella Waste Systems.

A grandmother issued a PSA for other grandparents, addressing specifically those who overstep their roles as grandma and grandpa.

At the Maryland Recycling Network conference in Baltimore, recyclers focused on economic factors that could bring brighter days, such as improved commodity markets, new PET demand and upcoming EPR policies.