Waste Management

Bioplastics Get Trashed in Rhode Island

Attention Sidewalk Shoppers and Dumpster Divers

One Person’s Trash is Another’s … New Outfit

New England Neighbors Leave Rhode Island in Compost Dust

This week, the crew discusses bottled water and its cost, both financial and environmental. Some zingers are flung at parched state legislators who insist on using tax payer money to […]

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Single-Stream Recycling

That Cup Adds Up

Burning and Burying are Bottom-Barrel Fixes

Given the ongoing problems with odors at the Central Landfill, ecoRI News thought it would be a good time to take a look at how a modern energy-from-waste power plant operates.

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Bag It: R.I. Needs to Ban Plastic Tumbleweeds

Birds the Latest Problem at Central Landfill

Single-Stream Recycling Doesn’t Mean Free-for-All

JOHNSTON, R.I. — It wasn't a great Thanksgiving weekend at the Central Landfill. Equipment failure apparently allowed high levels of a noxious gas to escape from the trash disposal area, resulting in a slew of odor complaints from neighbors.

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State Addressing Landfill Odor Complaints

The Keurig K-Cup Konundrum

Waste Veggie Oil Thieves Prove Slippery

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Waste Management

Getting off the Bottle

Burning Desire: What Goes On at an Incinerator

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Landfill Odors Overpower Thanksgiving

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