Waste Management
Keeping up with Technology: Ensuring Safeguards for Electronic Recycling
Americans own approximately 24 electronic products per household, each with an ever-shortening lifespan. As waste management companies struggle to keep up with the growing electronics waste stream, we must keep worker and environmental safety at the forefront.
U.S. Aluminum Can Recycling Nudges Upward… Barely
When aluminum can recycling rates in the U.S. peaked at over 65 percent in 1994, the country was a world leader in the category. Times have changed.
Can Water Treatment Technology Offer the Fracking Industry a New Face?
As the natural gas market transforms from bear to bull this year, ABSMaterial’s new water treatment technology, Osorb offers up a new solution to the fracking industry’s biggest problem. The system will prevent 72,000 gallons of contaminated water from reaching the riverbed every day. Just a drop in the basin, but a clean and important drop.
An Inside Look at the World’s Largest “Bag-2-Bag” Recycling Facility [Photos, Video]
Hilex Poly is working hard to develop a recycling stream that will change the way you think and feel about about plastic bags. Come take a video and photo tour of their facility in North Vernon, Indiana.
Nuclear Radiation Experts: 2,000 Tons Nuclear Materials Spewing Radioactivity for Months
See what leading international radiation experts Dr. Ira Helfand, Dr. David Richardson and Dr. Marvin Resnikoff had to say about the Fukushima crisis and the threats posed by nuclear fallout.



















