Month: May 2019

Businesses Found in Violation during 2018 Returned to Compliance BOSTON — As part of the Commonwealth’s commitment to help increase the diversion, reuse and recycling of materials, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) today announced that during calendar year 2018, the agency has issued 119 notices of non-compliance (NON) and eight…

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The EPA estimates Americans recycle about 90 million tons of material a year. But these days the stuff we recycle has to be purer than Ivory soap. That’s because China, the world’s largest importer of recycled materials, instituted strict new standards on the quality of the products they’ll buy, and…

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