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The fate of cardboard boxes in the US rests in the hands of consumers more than it ever has been before. Luckily, Certified Waste Solutions is here to help!

In an effort to quantify the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on waste and recycling professionals in the U.S., Waste Today magazine sent out a survey to industry participants beginning March 24.

Study says use of compost as alternative daily cover in landfills can be more environmentally advantageous than its use as a soil amendment.

A new rule will take effect in California on January 1, 2021 that will allow generators of decommissioned solar panels (photovoltaic or PV modules) to manage them more economically as universal waste as opposed to hazardous waste under current California law.

In the United States, more than 95% of the packages shipped to the country’s 200 million online shoppers are sent in containerboard cardboard and corrugated containers. The use of cardboard and other packaging materials is expected to increase in the coming years as online sales continue to grow

The waste includes dinner scraps and spoiled fruit and vegetables from commercial businesses including grocery stores and restaurants.

China will ban all imports of solid waste from Jan. 1, 2021

A new report assessing three U.S. beverage packaging types aluminum cans, glass bottles and plastic PET bottles finds aluminum cans have the highest circular performance.

The coronavirus outbreak has indelibly imprinted itself on life in Los Angeles down to the composition of trash washing up on its beaches.

Domino's is launching a new feature on recycling.dominos.com that customers can use to look up their zip code for their neighborhood's status on pizza box recycling.

In a move aimed at reducing huge amounts of plastic litter in the ocean and on land, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material.

Researchers have shown how industries could work together to recycle cigarette butts into bricks, in a step-by-step implementation plan for saving energy and solving a global littering problem.

A group of Modesto teenagers used COVID-19 downtime to build a tool that might end up on the International Space Station.

Lawmakers fail to pass state plastic-waste reduction bill but activists vow to continue the fight.

Recycled cardboard is worth its weight in "beige gold," with a ton of it going for roughly $108. When cardboard is illegally sold, "legitimate recycling firms, and the city and other local authorities who take a cut from their sales, are missing out on tens of millions," according to the BBC.

L.A. city data shows requests to remove illegally dumped, bulky or electronic waste, as well as household appliances increased nearly 19% in the first seven months of 2020.

In 2019, electronic waste contributed to a record-high amount of e-waste generated worldwide at 53.6 million metric tons, comprising a staggering 70% of the world’s toxic waste.

Senate wants to end a program that takes more than 5.7 million tons of vegetable and fruit trimmings, egg shells, avocado pits, spent grain, coffee grounds and more are recovered annually in California and "upcycled" as highly-nutritious livestock feed instead of dumping it in our state's overburdened landfills. https://www.prnewswire.com//california-organic-waste-recyc

Plastic bottles by the side of a road are a common sight, an unseemly reminder of how often consumer products are discarded carelessly. Now some of those bottles may become part of the road.

Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has announced plans to become completely carbon neutral in the next decade, with the goal of every Apple device having net-zero climate impact.

These modern neighborhoods have net-zero energy consumption. They generate the same amount of renewable power as they consume on-site each year. #recycling #wastestream