Latest Waste management News

Cutting food waste would lower emissions, but so far only one state has done it

Sep. 30, 2024 12:43 PM EDT

Kay Masterson has always wanted to make her Boston-area restaurant more sustainable, partnering with an organic farm to get some vegetables close by and offering reusable containers for customers' takeout. When Massachusetts was weighing whether to block restaurants from dumping food waste into...

US resumes hazardous waste shipments to Michigan landfill from Ohio

Sep. 26, 2024 16:14 PM EDT

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency said it has resumed sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio while communities in suburban Detroit continue their legal fight to bar waste from a World War II-era site in New York. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores

Sep. 22, 2024 16:20 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at...