Environmentalists. Every Day. America's Solid Waste Industry

Bruce J. Parker, President and CEO of the Environmental Industry Associations (EIA), the trade association that represents the private-sector solid waste services industry through its two sub-associations, the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA) and the Waste Equipment Technology Association (WASTEC), announced to EIA Board of Trustees that he will retire at the end of 2012. Parker joined the Association in 1981 as its General Counsel and took the helm in 1996. Read the full release here.

The WASTEC Awards provide a unique opportunity to recognize the best in our industry. WASTEC recently released the nomination form for these awards. Download form here. The deadline for nominations is January 13, 2012.

This online guide includes detailed information about the e-waste programs offered by a variety of electronics manufacturers and retailers.

On the website of the West Palm Beach Public Works Dept., visitors will find a new video where employees rap about the services that they provide.

Staff at Waste Age magazine have started posting to their blog (”The Heap”) on a very regular basis…Check out this interesting source of information.

The host of Green Earth Radio Patty Kovaks interviewed Waste Management Int’l VP Lynn Brown regarding Waste Managment’s dedication to environmental issues, their approach to landfills, plans for recycling and goals for public education. This interview may be downloaded from the Green Earth Radio archive.

NSWMA has produced Spanish versions its Be Safe, Be Proud series of four safety-training videos, and is making them available to garbage companies and local governments. The Spanish versions will help those companies and governments with Spanish-speaking employees reduce their accidents and injuries. More information and order forms for these videos may be found on the EIA Store. In any and every language, making safety a top priority is one of NSWMA’s main missions.

Four Michigan State University students produced an award-winning YouTube video that encourages people to recycle glass. The video took first place in the Glass Packaging Institute’s Recycle Glass Day video competition.