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Recycling on campuses affected by China’s plastics ban
By: Ray Bendici | Issue: April/May, 2019 April 8, 2019China’s recent decision to drastically limit the amount and types of recyclable plastics it accepts from other countries has forced colleges to find new ways to handle trash removal. The new policy is...
Don’t Just Scrap It
What do you think of when you hear the word “scrap?”Throw away those scraps of paper. Feed those scraps to the dogs. I can’t use this; just scrap it.But when we talk about “scrap metal” the word takes on a whole different meaning.Scrap metal literally is...
Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn’t Want It?
The U.S. used to ship about 7 million tons of plastic trash to China a year, where much of it was recycled into raw materials. Then came the Chinese crackdown of 2018. Olivia Sun/NPR Heard on All Things Considered CHRISTOPHER JOYCE Twitter Plastic...
We Believe…
It’s hard to believe that we’re already in the second month of 2019 and trying to remember what New Year’s resolutions we made this year. There’s still time to re-visit them and maybe make a few others. We’re hoping the younger generation will have greater...
2019 – What’s Ahead
As we head into 2019, M-PASS is keeping an eye on important issues for the recycling industry – including important topics from 2018 which will continue to be in the news and new trends and ideas the industry will be looking at this year. WHAT’S GOING ON...
Stuff!
Many of us have collected so much stuff that a movie was made about it. The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard’s 2007 online documentary explored our problem with stuff: we have too much of it, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well.. We live...
M-PASS Corporate Celebrates Another Record Breaking Year
Pictured from right to left: Lorraine White, Glenda Durham, April Camp, Bill Camp, Rob Adams, Stephanie Adams, Keri Witherspoon and Chris Witherspoon
Food For Thought
We first raised the issue of food waste here around the end of June. The article presented a lot of the reasons why, according to a 2016 article in The Atlantic, America leads the way in food waste because “calories are cheap and people are picky.”...
15th Annual Synthetic Turf Council Membership Meeting
Is the (Artificial) Grass Always Greener? M-PASS’ Lorraine White is just back from Cleveland where she participated in the 15th annual Synthetic Turf Council (STC) Membership Meeting. The STC is the synthetic turf industry’s trade association, providing...
GRC 27th Annual Conference – 2018
In Mid-September, VP and General Manager Chris Witherspoon represented M-PASS at the 27th annual conference of the Georgia Recycling Coalition (GRC). The GRC has a mission to promote material reduction and enhance recycling programs throughout the state by...