Bloomberg recently reported that at least 60 chemical companies are “racing” to recycle plastics by essentially using chemistry to return them back to their original chemical components. If this is successful, it would allow plastic to be recycled in a way that is not dependent on the resin from which it is formed. The article […]
I had the pleasure of speaking at the regular “Waste Wise” event recently about the complexity of recycling. As always, Steve Rinaldi of the NJDEP did a great job putting together a great program… The attached is a good summary of the complexities of recycling…Yet, after all of my ranting over the years you will […]
Ok, it is Earth Day…and Happy Earth Day to all…Of course, every day should be Earth Day..but that is another blog. I was recently in a meeting where someone stated that the small things that we do don’t really matter when it comes to the environment. Well, I don’t agree. I think that at the […]
The recent spate of articles on recycling go from predicting its death to how new businesses are growing. Well, both are correct in a way. As I have tried to communicate at every presentation or class, and as we have said for many years, recycling is a commodities business….and commodities change in value and in […]
I recently completed teaching my class on Recycling Public Policy and we had an interesting discussion on the merits of different coffee pods. Now, I am not a pod user myself, but the question is, are compostable pods any better than those plastic pods from the company that will remain nameless? As you can see […]