The City Council of New Orleans is expected to vote on a recycling program possibly on October 23, 2025 (but maybe later), with funding provided by the Environmental Protection Agency and The Recycling Partnership. New Orleans is moving ahead with a multi-million dollar overhaul of its residential recycling system, powered by a federal Solid Waste […]
As states with Democratic-controlled legislatures focus on recycling money plastic waste, states where members of the Republican Party control the legislature are benefiting financially from the output of a high-temperature plastic melting process, according to the online newsletter PoliticoPro.  California and New York are among the states which have recently passed new laws that increase […]
A Deeper Dumpster Dive Last month, while looking into waste and recycling in New Orleans, multiple friends and bedfellows alike told me the same thing – the city trashes its recycling. They each claimed, with high degrees of certainty, that they had seen city garbage trucks picking up residents’ recycling bins and throwing them into […]
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