This is a special day. It is not very often I get to check the solid waste category box: … lawmakers in Sacramento are trying to make California the first state to approve a blanket ban on this most ubiquitous of consumer products. … Mr. Padilla’s [a state senator who is sponsoring legislation for a…

Incentive-based municipal solid waste policy makes $ense: Wake County’s landfill will likely last longer than originally forecast, but public and private solid-waste experts are already planning to have solutions in hand when space runs out. … WasteZero helps communities switch to the model known as pay-as-you-throw. Residents have to buy special trash bags to use; otherwise,…

I voted today: We the Appalachian State University Sustainability Council do hereby proclaim our support for Appalachian's Zero-Waste Commitment and the associated Minibin and Single Stream Recycling initiatives described below: Minibin Waste Collection System: In Spring 2013 Semester 11 buildings will roll-out this system, which replaces the traditional trashcan with a hybrid container for both recycling…

From the inbox: Thank you, Raley Faculty and Staff.  You’ve embraced recycling and it shows! What the picture doesn't show is that at about the same time they took away office trash pick up. We're carrying it out of our office anyway so we might as well recycle. I'm not sure if you would call…

From the inbox: A Zero Waste Event is an event that diverts 90% or more of the materials generated from the landfill.  Ohio State has taken bold steps to increase the university’s diversion rates. 

A machine that converts waste plastic into crude oil is operating at a recycling depot in Whitehorse. The machine is the first of its kind in North America. Project manager Andy Lera first read about what he calls the "amazing" machine more than a year ago. He read that a Japanese man who was tired…

NY Times: … A growing number of large food and beverage companies in the United States are assuming the costs of recycling their packaging after consumers are finished with it, a responsibility long imposed on packaged goods companies in Europe and more recently in parts of Asia, Latin America and Canada. Several factors are converging…