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Clean Harbors Reports Q2 2025 Earnings, Highlights Growth in Environmental Services
2025-08-05 13:00:00| Waste Age
Clean Harbors, Inc. (Clean Harbors) recently released its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, showcasing growth in its core Environmental Services segment and achieving a record-setting safety result for the quarter. With its results, Mike Battles, Co-Chief Executive Officer, expressed optimism for the second half of the year.
Category: Energy and Environment
Revisiting Landfill Long-Term Costs: Pay Now or Pay More Later
2025-08-05 13:00:00| Waste Age
Landfill closure is more than a technical process; it's a long-term financial and ethical responsibility that many communities remain unprepared to handle. As U.S. landfill capacity shrinks and post-closure costs rise, there are hidden risks of inadequate funding and an urgent need for long-term responsibility.
Category: Energy and Environment
Proposal Submitted for Solar Farm to Take Over Closed Site of Lexington, KY Landfill
2025-08-04 21:01:45| Waste Age
City leaders have received a new proposal to turn the closed Haley Pike Landfill in Lexington, Ky., into a solar farm.
Category: Energy and Environment
Bartholomew County, IN Ends Commercial Cardboard, Paper Program Ahead of New Rumpke Facility
2025-08-04 20:59:25| Waste Age
The commercial cardboard and office paper recycling program in Bartholomew County, Indiana, is set to end next month as Rumpke Waste and Recycling prepares to launch a new commercial recycling facility at the countys landfill.
Category: Energy and Environment
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Market to Hit $38.21 Billion by 2030, Driven by EV Boom & E-Waste Recovery
2025-08-04 14:17:23| Waste Age
The global�lithium-ion battery recycling market�is on a high-growth trajectory, poised to jump from a valuation of $1.33 billion in 2020 to an impressive $38.21 billion by 2030, expanding at a staggering CAGR of 36.0% from 2021 to 2030.
Category: Energy and Environment
With Its Deposit Return System Improvements in Full Effect, Connecticuts Beverage Container Redemption Rate Jumps 21% From 2023 to 2024
2025-08-04 13:59:41| Waste Age
Container Recycling Institute Says This Demonstrates the Need for Program Upgrades in Other Deposit States, as Data Mainly Show a Trend of Declining Redemption Rates Over the Last Decade.
Category: Energy and Environment
Cheese-Making Leftovers to Make Vehicle Fuel and Bioplastics?
2025-08-04 13:55:00| Waste Age
Whey, a byproduct of cheesemaking, has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar cash cow for the dairy industry, which turns protein in this waste stream into products from butter to nutrient-packed powders. But the protein extraction process leaves behind heaps of lactose. So now innovators are figuring out how to valorize these manufacturing leftovers, too.
Category: Energy and Environment
Free Mattress Recycling Program Now Available in Oregon
2025-08-04 13:53:57| Waste Age
Residents across Oregon now have access to a new Mattress Recycling Program as the Oregon Mattress Stewardship Act goes into effect.
Category: Energy and Environment
AMP, Waste Connections Partner on AI-Driven Recycling Plant in Denver, CO
2025-08-04 13:51:43| Waste Age
AMP and Waste Connections are collaborating on a new Commerce Recycling plant, a first-of-its-kind AI-driven facility in Denver, CO.
Category: Energy and Environment