Solid Waste Working Group News Today

Joan Cudworth had a burst of show-and-tell inspiration in the summer of 2018.Cudworth, who was then solid waste supervisor for the town of Hollis, came to the select board meeting with a partial solution to tackle the rising costs of trash disposal....

In the months that followed the sudden announcement that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics would be closing their Merrimack plant, the fight against PFAS pollution continued.

Mary Stephens, a longtime Pembroke Pines homeowner, worries about the possibility of an incinerator being built near her Pembroke Pines community. Like some of her neighbors, she says the potential addition would spoil the quality of her neighborhood, where she has lived for 28 years. “I’ve been losing sleep, I’m really freaked,” Stephens said. She lists her concerns: “The air quality, the ...

A Department of Environmental Services official told an audience he expects the next few years will be a “watershed time” for solid waste work in N.H.

A plan to expand Broward’s landfill was rejected on its way to the County Commission this week, but Waste Management isn’t giving up hope on its plans.

Timothy Egan is a state representative serving on the Committee on Resources, Recreation & Development and is a member of the North Country Alliance for Balanced Change. There’s a general sense in New Hampshire that our state is lagging well behind...

Cooper City Mayor Greg Ross and Parkland City Commissioner and Broward League of Cities President Bob Mayersohn update readers on efforts among Broward County and the county's 31 municipalities to produce a unified recycling and solid waste program.

NEW LONDON — The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services finalized the state’s solid waste plan last week after a draft version released in August sparked considerable pushback from some in the waste management sector.The final plan added...

“It really calls out the fact that we've done a poor job in fulfilling the mission of the state to do far less landfilling and a lot more reuse and recycling,” said Rep. Karen Ebel.

New Hampshire’s last trash plan is almost two decades old. Many are looking towards how a new plan will change things.