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Columbia, MO to Rebuild Destroyed Recycling Center
2025-12-02 15:06:43| Waste Age
The City Council of Columbia, Mo., voted this week to rebuild the city's recycling center, which was destroyed by a tornado.
Category: Energy and Environment
Call2Recycle Expands Its Vape Device Recycling Program in Quebec
2025-12-02 14:58:43| Waste Age
Call2Recycle, Canada's leading organization for battery collection and recycling, is expanding its Recycle Your Vapes program in Quebec to include cannabis vape devices.
Category: Energy and Environment
How Wastewater Plants are Becoming Green Energy Hubs
2025-12-02 14:49:23| Waste Age
Greater Peoria Sanitary District (GPSD) treats 20 to 25 million gallons of wastewater each day and uses some of the resulting biogas to heat its boilers while flaring the rest. But now the Illinois utility has other plans for some of the excess and is banking on monetary and environmental returns.
Category: Energy and Environment
Nespresso Donates 100,000 Lbs. of Compost from Coffee Grounds to City Plants LA
2025-12-02 13:30:00| Waste Age
Nespresso is proud to mark the next phase of its Grounds to Grow LA project with a donation of 100,000 pounds of finished compost -- which includes coffee grounds from Nespresso capsules successfully collected and recycled to LA-based organization, City Plants LA.
Category: Energy and Environment
Techbros Electronic Recycle & ITAD Announces Partnership with the Phoenix Suns, Expanding Circularity and Sustainability Education Across Arizona
2025-12-02 13:30:00| Waste Age
Techbros Electronic Recycle & ITAD, Arizona's fastest growing certified electronics recycling and IT asset disposition company, proudly announces its partnership with the Phoenix Suns, unlocking a new chapter in statewide sustainability, circular technology education, and community-driven environmental impact.
Category: Energy and Environment
Let It Rot, Let It Renew: Composting Must Anchor Americas Waste Strategy
2025-12-02 13:00:00| Waste Age
The United States loses an estimated 1.7 to 2.3 billion tons of soil every year to runoff and erosion. Agricultural land, especially corn, soybean, and wheat fields, suffers the highest losses. This is not just an environmental crisis; it is an economic one.
Category: Energy and Environment
Suez Continues to Deal with Fires Cause from Vapes, Despite Ban
2025-12-01 14:34:01| Waste Age
Despite a ban on disposable vapes, Suez, a UK waste firm, says the devices are still causing fires at facilities and on trucks.
Category: Energy and Environment
Routeware Announces New Corporate Headquarters in Austin, Texas
2025-12-01 14:29:40| Waste Age
Routeware, Inc., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions for the waste and recycling industry, today announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas
Category: Energy and Environment
New Yorkers Broke Yet Another Composting Record, Diverting 6,062,000 Pounds of Compost from Landfill
2025-12-01 13:45:00| Waste Age
The New York City Department of Sanitation announced today that residents have smashed composting records THREE weeks in a row, separating and setting out 6,062,000 pounds of food and yard waste last week alone, topping the two previous weeks, where residents set out 6 million pounds and 5.9 million pounds. The success of the nations largest and easiest curbside composting
Category: Energy and Environment
EREFs Caitlin Conklin Likes A Challenge
2025-12-01 13:30:00| Waste Age
Caitlin Conklin, Vice President of Operations, with Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF), has raised EREFs industry profile through events, marketing, education, and stakeholder engagement. Her leadership and dedication have made a significant impact in advancing EREFs mission, furthering the organizations commitment to a more circular economy.
Category: Energy and Environment