City of Ocala takes three electric collection trucks

Three battery-electric New Way Sidewinder XTR automated side loaders (ASLs) to the City of Ocala, Florida

Waste treatment companies come to aid of flooded German towns

Li-Cycle building plant in Alabama

Shipping line invests in bio-fuel

California legislates preserved wood disposal rules

Digital watermark moves closer to commercialization

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• Fleet management

Prevent breakdowns, stay efficient

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• Environment

Reducing waste in Antarctica

The GARS O'Higgins (German Antarctic Receiving Station) research station needed to reduce the amount of waste stored on site.

• Business Operations

Covid crisis makes waste collector stronger

For refuse collector Waste Connections, business may never return to how it was before the Covid-19 pandemic

Opinions

Energy

GWPF warns ministers not to draw the wrong lessons from Europe’s energy crisis

Dr Benny Peiser Director, Global Warming Policy Forum

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

Packaging generates a lot of waste – now Maine and Oregon want manufacturers to foot the bill for getting rid of it

Jessica Heiges & Kate O'Neill

Climate change

From jet fuel to clothes, microbes can help us recycle carbon dioxide into everyday products

Jamin Wood, Bernardo Virdis & Shihu Hu

Biogas

We could power households from the scraps in our food waste bins – here’s what is stopping us

Ananya Mukherjee, Research Associate in Sociology, University of Surrey

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Waste & Recycling Expo Canada postponed

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• Blue Box

Ontario rolls out new blue box program

Will standardize accepted materials and increase producer responsibility

• Awards

Montrealer wins Mitacs innovation award

Ulrich Legrand recognized for technology that turns captured CO2 gas into high value chemicals

• Circular Economy

Goose poop beer on tap in Finland

Brewery in Lahti celebrates Green Capital status with unique suds

• Charity

Food bank diverts a million pounds from landfill

Second Harvest has recovered more than a million pounds of surplus food from Manitoba food businesses

• Uncategorized

French city deploys AI to manage bins

Since July 2020, 200 bins that collect waste from 13 waste disposal centres in the French city of Toulouse have been equipped with embedded artificial intelligence

• Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Lion Electric to build trucks in U.S.

Plant will have annual production capacity of up to 20,000 all-electric buses and trucks

• Awards

Agnico Eagle wins award for drinking water project

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News

Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Truck

City of Ocala takes three electric collection trucks

Three battery-electric New Way Sidewinder XTR automated side loaders (ASLs) to the City of Ocala, Florida

Charity, Equipment

Waste treatment companies come to aid of flooded German towns

Massive floods in German Ahrweiler district prompted charitable response

Batteries, EV

Li-Cycle building plant in Alabama

Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. will build its fourth commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Alabama

Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Biogas

Shipping line invests in bio-fuel

A.P. Moller-Maersk has taken a stake in bio-fuel startup WasteFuel