In a Bloomberg op-ed, recycling journalist and author Adam Minter writes of how the COVID-19 outbreak can pose several unique challenges for the U.S. waste collection and disposal industry. Minter ...
The first case of the COVID-19 virus in the U.S. was diagnosed on Jan. 20. By March 26, the United States became the epicenter of the pandemic as domestic cases surpassed those in China and Italy for ...
Trash – we discard it and forget about it. But the coronavirus pandemic poses a new threat to the people who handle the garbage after you’re done with it – medical waste workers. An influx in ...
The Healthcare Waste Institute (“HWI”) of the National Waste & Recycling Association (“NWRA”) submitted April 22nd comments to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (“OSHA”) on its proposed ...
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has intensified sensitisation of relevant government and private stakeholders to the need for proper disposal of ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) The extensive use of polymer-made, disposable and non-biodegradable COVID-19 pandemic health protectives like surgical face masks, hand gloves and PPE kits, combined with a lack ...
Maine has made incremental progress toward its statewide recycling goal in recent years after losing ground before and during ...