Grist reports Plympton, MA cut waste by implementing a pay-per-bag system, reducing trash volume by nearly half and saving $65,000 annually.
With most of the legislative session’s landfill bills dead in the State House, a legal battle continues between Vermont-based Casella Waste Management and opponents of its efforts to build a new landfill in northern New Hampshire, with each appealing the same state decision for different reasons. Granite State Landfill LLC, a subsidiary of Casella, sued […]
Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law this week a bill requiring trash companies to submit detailed management plans for leachate, the toxic liquid born from rainfall mixing with waste inside landfills. While the state already requires operators to create leachate management plans, House Bill 566 adds additional permit application requisites for prospective new landfills and […]
MEREDITH — The Meredith Rotary Club, in cooperation with the Meredith Department of Public Works, will hold a polystyrene (Styrofoam) collecti…
More than $23 million worth of recyclable materials were thrown away in New Hampshire’s disposal sites last year, according to a new study rel…
MEREDITH — The Meredith Rotary Club, with the cooperation of the Meredith Department of Public Works, will host a polystyrene (Styrofoam) coll…
CONCORD — The House Environmental and Agriculture Committee heard testimony on House Bill 707, a scathing indictment of the New Hampshire Depa…
BERLIN — A plan to take on an environmental liability left behind by 120 years of industrial activity is reliant on revenue derived from bring…
Now that election season has ended and routines are back to normal, one piece of the campaign season still remains — political signs. From fro…