Waste Management

Rhode Island Expands Use of Composting Toilets

Bottle Bill Repeals Pushed By Industry

Single-Stream Recycling has Drawbacks

Food Waste Produces Some Ugly Numbers

KINGSTON, R.I. — Sejal Lanterman has kept worms under her kitchen sink, and currently has some in the basement and at the office.

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

Our Lives are Wrapped Up in Plastic

Electronics Create Growing Amounts of Toxic Waste

Aluminum represents almost all of the metals collected in Rhode Island, but is still only about 1 percent of the total recyclables collected — 961 tons in fiscal 2009, according to the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, which runs the Central Landfill in Johnston.

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Broken Glass Provides Cheap Cover at State Landfill

Recyclables From Restaurants Flows Into Landfill

Compost Grows Food and Community

CHARLESTOWN, R.I. — On many occasions, Michael Merner has walked out of an environmental meeting carrying a teabag wrapped in a napkin. For a man who understands and appreciates the benefit of organic matter, he finds it frustrating when composting is ignored.

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Commercial Waste Buries Central Landfill

Rhode Island Battles Culture of Waste

What’s Buried in Your Backyard?

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Let Worms Do Your Home and Office Composting

Aluminum is King of Collected Metals in Rhode Island

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Veteran Composter Unhappy About Buried Waste

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