Waste Management

Single-Stream Recycling has Drawbacks

Food Waste Produces Some Ugly Numbers

Let Worms Do Your Home and Office Composting

Compost Takes Time, or It’s Nothing But Horsesh*t

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — Just thinking about what it would take to lead a plastic-free life overwhelms Catherine Weaver.

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Electronics Create Growing Amounts of Toxic Waste

Aluminum is King of Collected Metals in Rhode Island

Broken Glass Provides Cheap Cover at State Landfill

Many small-business owners balk at the idea of having to pay a waste hauler to pick up recyclables, so most of them don’t contract to have their recyclables properly disposed.

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Compost Grows Food and Community

Veteran Composter Unhappy About Buried Waste

Commercial Waste Buries Central Landfill

The recycling culture in Providence is slowly changing and old behaviors abandoned, thanks to the two-month-old “Green Up Providence!” campaign.

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Our Lives are Wrapped Up in Plastic

Recyclables From Restaurants Flows Into Landfill

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Rhode Island Battles Culture of Waste

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