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Our Industry Cannot Be Silent (Commentary)
2020-06-12 09:00:00| Waste Age
A palpable shadow hangs over our world following the death of George Floyd. As the waste and recycling industry, we cannot be silent. We exist in this world and contribute to it. This is not the space to write about how the protests are disrupting ou
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Jim Long Pork Commentary: Finally US weekly harvest surpasses a year ago
2020-06-10 10:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
After several weeks of hog harvests significantly below a year ago, this past week the US got to 2,452,000, up 42,000 from the same week a year ago. Certainly a positive sign that US plants are gettin
Jim Long Pork Commentary: US hog weights continue to baffle
2020-06-03 13:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Last week we observed that US harvest weights were decreasing this totally baffles us.
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We Got the Money Now What? (Commentary)
2020-06-02 13:00:00| Waste Age
In my last column, I explained the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan plan and offered suggestions on how to apply and obtain funding. When I wrote that article, I could not have imagined that financial institutions would deploy $350 billion
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The Plague of Uncertainty: The Pandemics Unpredictable Impacts on Recycling and Its Markets (Commentary)
2020-05-29 09:00:00| Waste Age
At the end of January, I spoke on recycling markets at the Connecticut Recyclers Coalition Annual Conference. I never uttered the word pandemic. So much for my predictive abilities. In spite of that, they asked me to do a webinar at the end of thi
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