All the headlines from our Waste Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2024 // A follow-up inspection by federal workplace safety investigators in April 2024 found a Janesville, Wisconsin recycling company continuing to expose employees to unsafe levels of lead and cadmium while they dismantled...
Oct 8 2024 // The Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial court erred in finding that a garbage truck driver and the city of Chesapeake were shielded by sovereign immunity for their role in an accident caused by the truck...
Sep 11 2024 // Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the beverage company made inaccurate statements regarding the recyclability of its K-Cup pods, the...
Jul 22 2024 // Had John’s Disposal Service Inc. and John’s Recycling Inc. in Franksville, Wisconsin followed federal safety standards, a temporary maintenance worker might not have suffered severe injuries when their jacket...
Oct 20 2023 // With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are considered hazardous...
Sep 28 2023 // A recycling facility will be built in Kentucky to shred electric vehicle batteries in a $65 million venture between American and South Korean companies that will supply material for a separate battery-related operation in...
Apr 12 2023 // When word surfaced that soils and liquids laced with chemicals from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment were being sent to southeastern Michigan for storage, local residents and politicians were livid.“People...
Jan 27 2023 // Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has filed a civil complaint, on behalf of the Maryland Department of the Environment, against World Recycling Co. and three related entities (WRC).The complaint, filed in the...
Jan 20 2023 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is stepping in, at the request of Alabama officials, to help extinguish an underground landfill fire that has been burning in the state for nearly two months, Gov. Kay Ivey...
Jan 18 2023 // An underground fire at an Alabama landfill has continued to pollute the air in eastern parts of the Birmingham region more than 50 days after a fire began underground, according to air quality monitors.The monitors...
Dec 27 2022 // An underground fire has been raging at an environmental landfill near Birmingham for almost a month, covering Alabama’s largest metro area with smoke.Now, state officials, local fire departments and county...
Sep 28 2022 // Authorities say nine people were taken to the hospital this week after being exposed to a caustic substance at a California plastics recycling company.Seven workers had breathing problems or other symptoms while two...
Aug 10 2022 // A 20-year-old worker’s attempt at clearing a jam in an industrial cardboard baler at a Grand Island, Nebraska waste disposal company turned tragic when the worker fell into the baler, became caught and suffered...
Aug 3 2022 // A new study led by the University of South Australia indicates tens of thousands of wind turbine blades will end up in landfills by the end of the decade unless end-of-life programs are established soon.The study, led by...
Jul 20 2022 // Amwins Program Underwriters (APU), an operating company within the Amwins Underwriting division, has been busy over the last 18 months bringing in new underwriting perspectives to the long-standing Waste Haulers...
Jul 18 2022 // The father of a man who disappeared and is now believed to have died in a shredding machine at a South Carolina recycling business is moving to have his son legally declared dead.The State newspaper reports that Mike...
Apr 29 2022 // A workplace safety investigation following a worker’s fatal crushing injuries at a St. Louis, Missouri recycling facility on Oct. 26, 2021, alleges the company failed to erect guards or barriers to prevent workers...
Mar 18 2022 // A group of New Orleans residents whose homes were built on a toxic landfill decades ago have won a $75 million court judgement against the city and others, the Housing Authority of New Orleans and the local school...
Mar 14 2022 // The state of Michigan has reached a settlement with a suburban Detroit landfill operator over compliance issues.Arbor Hills Landfill in Salem Township is required to pay fines and the cost of emissions monitoring and...
Jan 18 2022 // Two environmental groups have settled a federal lawsuit with a waste management company over allegations the company’s landfill in New Hampshire leaked toxic chemicals into a nearby river.Under the settlement reached...