Environmentalists. Every Day. America's Solid Waste Industry

NSWMA’s General Counsel and Safety Director, David Biderman was interviewed for podcast by the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence. In this podcast, he describes the successes and challenges related to safety in the solid waste field. Listen to the podcast now.

Janice Comer Bradley, the chief officer of the Waste Equipment Technology Association (WASTEC), recently was invited to serve as a member of the Committee on the Certification of Protective Technologies of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.

More than 20 daily newspapers have published an op-ed drafted by NSWMA President and CEO Bruce J. Parker (Reason for optimism this Earth Day? For starters, let’s talk trash!”), including the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star and the Sacramento Bee. In this article, Parker states, “Proper waste management is actually one of America’s greatest environmental successes. In the last two decades alone, we have witnessed a startling transformation in how we deal with all the garbage.”

WASTEC is preparing the 2010 edition of its Products & Services Directory, the annual “Yellow Pages” of solid waste and recycling equipment, OEM and aftermarket suppliers, and suppliers of technology and services provided by WASTEC members. Copies are distributed to WasteExpo attendees and procurement personnel throughout the solid waste industry, and additional copies are available upon request. As a member benefit, the directory has general listings for all WASTEC members’ products and services; more prominent display ads are available. To request information about these opportunities, contact Christine Hutcherson at chutcherson@envasns.org.

In an article called “Trimming Waste: A greener, cheaper way to deal with garbage,” Big Belly Solar’s solar compactor was featured on Slate.com. Read the article here.

Fortune magazine released a video that includes images of the landfill gas to energy project in Racine, Wisconsin, that powers SC Johnson’s nearby manufacturing facility. This video is located on the CNN/Money website.

PTR Baler and Compactor, the largest manufacturer of vertical balers in the world, is featured in an article in Philadelphia Weekly (Jig and Real: Tony Santos found his calling at PTR, the United Nations of ironworking). The article describes the company as a great place to work and one of the few surviving companies to employ iron workers in Philadelphia.

On November 20, WASTEC member Green Power, Inc., was honored by top environmentalists at an awards ceremony at a Chicago event. Learn more about the Environmental Hall of Fame here. Learn more about Green Power here.