Recycling News

Area News

100% participate in Baltimore school district´s recycling

New county-backed recycling program already has competition

MD Department of the Environment Pulls Down Bronze for Procurement in State Electronics Challenge

Boonsboro passes curbside recycling

Grants encourage recycling of thermoformed PET

County explores ways to get businesses to recycle

It’s better than thousands of years in a landfill

Panel: Carroll may need to include multiple methods of disposing of solid waste in future

Another city enacts forced recycling measure

Washington County to help promote private curbside-recycling program

Will Howard's food scrap program draw partners to the table or go down the drain?

After two years, Baltimore County's single-stream recycling program collecting momentum

Neighbors complain about scavenging recyclables

Annapolis restaurant eliminates garbage

MD BIZ: Firm to build garbage-to-fuel plant in Iowa, Virginia

Delay sought for trash-burning power plant in Fairfield

New Hagerstown solid-waste program expands service at lower cost

Used oil recycling plant planned for Baltimore, Md.

Hagerstown City Council to consider various trash, recycling options

Landfills are filling fast

 

National News

The Lighter Side of Recycling

Californians recycled 82% of beverage containers in 2011

Study: Single-stream is more wasteful, expensive

RecycleMania Announces 2012 Champions

Grappling With a Garbage Glut

NCSU Research Explains How Vermicompost-Amended Soils Ward Off Crop Pests

Who Knew? Upcycling the Dog Poo

Thefts from recycling bins to be fined

WRN announces Green City Awards finalists

Naked Groceries: Startup Creates Zero-Waste Store

CarbonLITE announces opening of world's largest bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling plant

San Mateo, Calif, composts more, landfills less

Trash, Recycling and the Heartbreaking Lessons of YouTube Ethnography

County to consider nixing recycling drop-off bins

Coca-Cola to expand recycling grants program

Survey: 70% in EU support plastic bag bans

Tearing Apart the Package Myth

USDA Announces Support for a New Advanced Biofuel Production Facility

TerraCycle tries to ‘revolutionize’ disposable diapers

Petition drive fails; Seattle plastic bag ban moves forward

National "Hard to Recycle" Recycle By Mail Program Launches!

Midlands councils unite to recycle road sweepings

Carbon dioxide super-scrubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.

The Big Waste

 

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