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January, February and March are in the rear-view mirror, and although the first two months of the year were par for the course, in March, we incurred 31 reported fire incidents, the [...]

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. [...]