SAFETY ALERT SWANA has recently called for a renewed focus on safety as the increase in solid waste fatalities continues. To date there have been 17 fatal accidents that relate to the solid waste [...]
SWANA has announced the International Solid Waste Design Competition (SWDC) for 2019. This competition offers teams of students the opportunity to compete and solve “real world” [...]
SAFETY ALERT The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the 2017 National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, which reveals refuse and recyclable material [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’m still trying to catch my breath after the recent political season, but wait, there’s still some voting to do! At WASTECON this past summer, the [...]
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 [...]
INDIANA GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS OCTOBER 14-20, 2018 SLOW DOWN TO GET AROUND WEEK Hoosier Chapter of SWANA at Indiana State Fairgrounds to Raise Awareness A little over three years ago, Indiana joined [...]
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 issued a proposed rule under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program that would set the minimum amount of renewable fuels that must be [...]
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 [...]