Local Programs

Municipal programs are often short on funds, and it’s easy for recycling outreach to fall on the back burner amid...

Nine robots and seven optical sorters will operate at a mixed-waste processing facility coming to South Carolina. Meanwhile, a separate...

New York City is moving forward with a plan to shift the financial burden of garbage collection from taxpayers to...

Over the last year, global facility operator FCC was determined to win a bid to sort Houston's recyclables, and in...

Colorado’s recycling advocates have taken on a new strategy aimed at boosting the state’s diversion rate. Over the past year,...

Starting this year, all municipalities in New Jersey will be able to use one online platform to communicate recycling program...

Tennessee's fourth-largest city has removed glass from its single-stream curbside program. The Times Free Press newspaper reports Chattanooga, Tenn. has...

Certain tools such as pay-as-you-throw pricing and multi-family requirements have produced compelling diversion results in communities across the country. Leaders...

A data-driven approach to materials recovery has helped the city of Seattle steadily expand its recycling program to target a...

Online advertising can be an effective way to direct residents to local recycling program webpages, a recent study shows, but...