Local governments across the U.S. handle waste management, funding it through taxes and user fees. Until 2018, the U.S. exported huge quantities of recyclable materials, primarily to China. Then China ...

Pay-as-you-throw is a policy that charges people for the amount of trash they toss out. It’s also sometimes called variable-rate pricing or pay-as-you-waste. Many cities and towns around the world, ...

The company will be hosting a job fair Thursday, July 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Germantown. A news release says starting pay is $15.75 an hour to be a sorter and $16.75 to be a senior sorter. Basic ...

Despite facing a bevy of fiscal woes, the V.I. Waste Management Authority plans to shell out millions of dollars to install and operate an untested solid waste reduction system at the Anguilla ...

Connecticut legislators have been told for years that a key to solving the state’s waste crisis and lowering costs is to get food scraps out of the waste stream going to the platoon of plants burning ...

Waste Connections has a strong track record of M&A and has been one of the best-performing stocks on the TSX. The waste management industry is recession-resilient, making WCN a stable and essential ...

This article by Lily Baum Pollans, Hunter College is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, ...

Pay-as-you-throw is a policy that charges people for the amount of trash they toss out. It’s also sometimes called variable-rate pricing or pay-as-you-waste. Many cities and towns around the world, ...