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- All Eyes on Boston: Will the New Commercial Food Waste Ban Lead to a Boom in Waste-to-Energy? (8/13/14)
Will the implementation of the ban be a model for other states? The answer may be an outstanding, yes!
- Two CT trash-to-energy plants to sell in $2B deal (7/30/14)
The parent company of the trash-to-energy facilities in Bridgeport and Lisbon will sell them to a New Jersey capital firm in a $1.94 billion deal that includes 21 power plants throughout the country.
- Waste Management Signs Definitive Agreement for $1.94 Billion Divestiture of Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. to Energy Capital Partners
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 29, 2014-- Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) has agreed to sell Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. (“WTI”) to an affiliate of Energy Capital Partners (“ECP”) for $1.94 billion in cash. - See more at: http://investors.wm.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=119743&p=irol-recentnewsArticle&ID=1952329&highlight=#sthash.ZYVb6mS7.dpuf
- Rockland residents to launch effort to repeal pay-per-bag trash disposal rule (7/22/14)
ROCKLAND — A petition drive is expected to be formally launched Wednesday morning to repeal the mandatory pay-per-bag trash disposal law approved earlier this month by the city council.
- Trash backlash: Mandated containers in Cranston an election issue / Video (7/2/14)
CRANSTON — Every residence gets two 65-gallon durable wheeled plastic containers in the city’s new “automatic trash collection” system. Each has a serial number and is only intended to be a loaner to a particular residence.
- Opponents of Rockland bag fees surpass target to force repeal vote (8/4/14)
ROCKLAND — Opponents to a mandatory pay-per-bag trash disposal law collected far more signatures than needed in fewer than two weeks to ask residents at referendum in November to repeal the ordinance approved in City Council.
- N.H. Composters Say Rule Change Could Stir Growth In Business (7/28/14)
Compost has long been the domain of farmers and gardeners, not city-folk, but with both Vermont and Massachusetts pushing ahead with bans on throwing away food waste, curb-side pickup of compost is set to become more commonplace.
- Trashanol: Vendor pitches garbage-to-energy technology to board representing 187 Maine towns (7/23/14)
ORONO — While the Department of Environmental Protection considers an application from the Municipal Review Committee to open an integrated solid waste and recycling facility with a landfill in Penobscot County, the MRC board heard a presentation Wednesday from technology vendor Fiberight.
- Food waste recycling remains a tough task in Connecticut (7/9/14)
Bridgewater -- With a shout of “BLT!” as lunchtime peaks at the historic Bridgewater Village Store, chef Damian Krieg is doing pretty much the same thing he’s done for more than seven years – cranking out sandwiches, dishing up fresh soups and serving a changing array of specials.
- Hartford battery convention yields recycling bill (6/16/14)
Key battery industry leaders' talk in Hartford on Thursday marked the first occasion when diverse interest groups converged and revealed an all battery recycling bill.