Across The Wire

1. Study: Restaurants Could Capture More Food Waste And Reduce Climate Impact
   11/18/2019

   A new study finds restaurants can play a crucial role in diverting tons more food waste away from the nation's landfills. One way to accomplish this: offering durable or compostable plates, cups and utensils, which the study proves makes it easier for customers to compost their food scraps and sort their waste into the right bins.

2. Brightmark Opens National Site Search For $1B Advanced Plastic Recycling Facilities
   11/5/2019

   Brightmark, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, announced today that it is launching a nationwide site search for U.S. locations suitable for its next set of advanced recycling facilities, which will convert hundreds of thousands of tons of post-consumer plastics into new products, including fuels, wax, and other products

3. Eastman To Recycle Discarded Carpet Into New Materials
   11/5/2019

   Eastman has reached an agreement to give new life to one of the most problematic waste materials in U.S. landfills. Post-consumer carpet will now be recycled through Eastman's carbon renewal technology and converted into new materials to serve new and useful purposes.

4. American Recycling Joins TERRA's ‘Done With It’ Mail-In Electronics Recycling Program
   11/4/2019

   American Recycling provides mail-in electronics recycling options to 5.7 million residents of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

5. TERRA Joins The Second International E-Waste Day To Raise Global Awareness About The Growing Problem Of E-Waste
   10/14/2019

   The Electronics Reuse & Recycling Alliance (TERRA) has joined one hundred organizations from over forty countries worldwide organizing activities as part of the second International E-Waste Day.

6. Construction Begins On Milestone’s Upton County Landfill, Marks Largest Capital Expansion In Company History
   10/3/2019

   Milestone Environmental Services, LLC (Milestone), an industry leader in oilfield waste disposal services, announced recently that the company has begun construction of an RCRA-exempt oilfield waste landfill in Upton County, about 34 miles south of Midland, Texas.

7. With Recent EPA And DOE Designation, Monarch Waste Poised To Disrupt Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. Medical / Hazardous Waste Market With PyroMed 550™ Pyrolysis Technology
   9/30/2019

   Monarch Waste Technologies, LLC, is a medical and hazardous waste disposal company founded in 2015 by David Cardenas and Kevin Yearout

8. GFL Announces Acquisition Of Windsor Disposal Services
   9/25/2019

   GFL Environmental Inc. ("GFL") announced today that it has acquired the Windsor Disposal Services group of companies ("WDS")

9. KleanLoop A Decentralized Blockchain DApp For Creating Transparency In Tyre And Plastic Recycling
   9/15/2019

   Klean Industries Inc. ("Klean") is pleased to announce the development of the KleanLoop, a Blockchain-based platform, that now enables transparency across the waste to energy, resource recovery and recycling industries

10. GFL Announces Acquisition Of Alpine Group's Vancouver Island Solid Waste Business
    8/6/2019

    GFL Environmental Inc. ("GFL") announced today that it has acquired the Vancouver Island solid waste operations of Evergreen Industries Ltd., part of the Alpine Group