Wow, that is a great statement. The Waste Management Sustainability Forum really drives this point home. The problems associated with plastics are not so much an issue of chemistry as poor design. We design plastics without thought to their recyclability…and then we compound this problem by designing packaging that is hard to recycle due to […]
By the time that you read this, Hoboken, NJ will have shifted its recycling program back to dual-stream recycling. I have written in the past that a good program is a good program notwithstanding whether it is single or dual-stream. Having said that, this should be a very interesting case to watch. Here is a […]
In the classes that I teach on recycling, I hear the same complaint every single year. The local politicians won’t let me enforce the recycling laws in my town. When I do, I get a call telling me to back off because it is a friend of some person in a higher position. Every year, […]
It is common for a company that practices greenwashing to makes claims that items can be recycled in some places, but not others, and that you can recycle materials that can’t be recycled. Keurig has been trying to make this claim for years. Now, as reported in Waste Dive, a court in California is allowing […]
On July 5, the New York Times published an article in the Business Section that makes a claim that bottle bills work at improving recycling. I am getting tired of this claim. It may be true that in bottle bill states the recovery of cans and bottles may be higher than in non bottle bills […]