Recycling

Over the past several weeks, legislation addressing recycling and solid waste management has been announced or introduced in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Additionally, [...]

On November 15, 2018, at EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC, Acting Administrator Wheeler will host a group of senior level executives in a dialogue to discuss the current challenges and [...]

The Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) and SWANA have been collaborating on a joint research project to assess the risk of exposure and injury from accidental needlestick at [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its most recent Facts and Figures data on national municipal solid waste (MSW), covering the year 2015. The national recycling rate for [...]

SWANA and the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) have reissued our Joint Advisory on Designing Contracts for Processing of Municipal Recyclables, which is now updated to include a [...]

The landscape of recycling has significantly changed domestically and abroad over the past year, and SWANA has both monitored and influenced these transformations since China’s initial [...]

The U.S. State Department has contacted SWANA for consultation on a proposal made by Norway to amend a portion of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes [...]

Late last week, SWANA learned CCIC North America (CCIC NA), which performs pre-shipment inspections of recyclables and scrap exported from the United States to China, was suspending operations [...]

Advocacy Alert – Recycling Infrastructure Hoosier Chapter Members – Today we were notified by SWANA of their intent to join a coalition with several other associations, including the [...]

  FROM:                  Jesse Maxwell, Advocacy & eLearning Program Manager, SWANA TO:                         SWANA Core Advocacy Group DATE:                    January 12, 2018 [...]