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SWANA Urges CDC to Explicitly Identify Waste & Recycling Workers as Frontline Essential for COVID-19 Vaccine
2020-12-22 07:00:00| Waste Age
Silver Spring, Md. The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) urged the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to include solid waste and recycling industry worke
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Rubicon Provides Essential Personal Protective Equipment for Frontline Workers
2020-07-02 09:00:00| Waste Age
Atlanta, Georgia, July 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rubicon, a software company that provides smart waste and recycling solutions to businesses and governments worldwide, today announced that they will be providing protective masks to their network o
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Guatemala garment workers on the frontline of the pandemic
2020-06-04 17:14:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Reports of a Covid-19 outbreak in a Guatemalan garment factory last week have sent shockwaves across the region, fuelling calls for tougher action to ensure garment workers are provided with sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE).
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Seaboard Foods, restaurants provide meals to frontline workers
2020-05-13 23:36:00| National Hog Farmer
Seaboard has provided over 2,000 face masks and personal protective equipment suits to hospitals.
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Supporting Frontline Waste and Recycling Workers Impacted by COVID-19: A Q&A with SWANAs David Biderman
2020-05-05 09:00:00| Waste Age
After last weeks announcement about the creation of the $200,000 Sanitation Workers Support Fund, by Glad and the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), we wanted to learn more about this effort to provide assistance to industry workers i
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