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This month, I would like to share more positive industry news. We have heard about the innovative materials recovery facilities (MRFs) of the future being designed and developed by Waste [...]

If you ever watch Kermit the Frog play the straight newsman in a skit on “The Muppet Show,” the end of the segment always ends in absolute chaos. That is how I feel about 2020 so far. We started [...]

2020 is going down as a “year for the ages” across the globe, and that is certainly true in our waste and recycling operations across the U.S. and Canada. According to the chart below, the U.S. [...]

Scrap metal fires surged during the month of September, contributing to the second-highest number of monthly incidents since I began reporting waste and recycling fires in February 2016. [...]

Great news! After last month’s lowest July in terms of reported fire incidents, we had the lowest level of incidents since 2016 for the month of August. We experienced 30 waste and recycling [...]

We are humbled to be recognized by the National Waste & Recycling Association as the 2020 Innovator of the Year award for our fire sprinkler replacement solution for waste and [...]

If someone would have asked me to forecast the number of fire incidents we would experience for the month of July, on July 1, I would have said 35 to 40. This is based on historical numbers and [...]

June is always a busy month for fires in waste and recycling facilities. June officially begins the “summertime spike” that we have been experiencing since I began tracking fire incidents in [...]

Fire Rover’s fire elimination solution wins gold in the Industrial Safety category; awards celebrate 32 years of honoring innovators and innovation. The Edison Awards, celebrating 32 years of [...]