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 [...]
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 SWANA Landfill Gas & Biogas (LBG) Technical Divisions is currently working with the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) to develop comments in response to West Virginia’s [...]
SAFETY ALERT On Friday, July 20th in Avon, Indiana sometime around 4 a.m., a private sector garbage truck was traveling eastbound on U.S. 36, preparing to turn north on Avon Village Parkway, when [...]
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 [...]