What happens when your recyclables leave the curb? Find out how your plastic bottles can turn into new products made by the brands you know and love — and learn how this process begins and ends with you. Watch the video
Waste Management has developed several collection programs to help both residential and commercial customers manage their hard-to-handle materials. From swimming pool chemicals to electronic waste material, we’re working to help businesses dispose of items not suitable for regular waste bins. Homes and businesses are filled with ordinary items and materials that require extraordinary disposal, handling […]
Houston-based Waste Management issued its September 2020 “Report on Recycling” to identify gaps in U.S. plastics recycling infrastructure, among other goals. The report is based on research and data-gathering from consulting firm, Resource Recycling Systems (RRS). RRS was brought about after advocacy group As You Sow called on Waste Management to disclose more information about […]
Over the years, Oracle Corporation’s campus in Burlington, MA, has implemented multiple environmentally friendly options including solar panels, cell phone recycling, aluminum can collection for Boys and Girls Club, and, an organics service that converts food waste to energy at WM’s Centralized Organics Recycling facility. For its newest sustainability initiative, Oracle partnered with WM’s Total […]
The most recent edition of the Recycle Smart MA newsletter featured Ed Conley, Waste Management plant manager at a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Massachusetts. In the story, he shares what a typical day looks like for him at the MRF (pronounced “murf”) to help us better understand what happens to our recyclables after we […]
