The GBB Circular
5 Tips to Reduce Food Waste During the Holiday Season
During the holidays, there are many joyful traditions to enjoy, especially indulging in delicious meals with family and friends. All that good food, however, can become a burden to our landfills and incinerators, as Americans waste an extra 25% of the total food supply during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays each year. With a little bit of thoughtful planning, we can all work together to reduce our food waste this holiday season with 5 simple tips.
READ MORE »Deconstruct or Bust: A Perspective on Building Deconstruction
In Waste Today, Brandie Townsend challenges the industry to apply a deconstruction framework over demolition in upcoming building or redesign ventures. She also discusses the process from the perspectives of an architect, a general contractor and a recycler.
READ MORE »Recycling Isn’t Broken, But It Does Need to Change
In Waste Today, Brad Kelley opines that recycling isn’t broken but now is the time to adapt it for viability in the future. He provides his observations and suggestions on how to improve recycling in the U.S. and potentially propel residential recycling rates to nearly 70%.
READ MORE »A Just Transition Deserves a Targeted Universalism Approach
In Waste Today, Paige Davis discusses the targeted universalism equity-based policy framework that the EPA should consider as it finalizes its definition of disadvantaged communities determining which communities will be eligible to receive BIL waste and recycling grant funding.
READ MORE »Collaboration Cultivates Success for Food Waste Composting/Education Pilot Program
In Waste Today, Ricky Phillips talks about how the Prince William County Public School Division, in Virginia, developed a pilot program designed to divert and collect food waste from selected schools for compost processing off-site with a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
READ MORE »Scaling Up Composting to Cut Costs: Cities Grapple with Residential Food Waste Collection
Residential compost collection programs are quite expensive upfront until a threshold in reached with economies of scale. This GBB Circular blog entry discusses the challenges, dilemmas and opportunities faced by cities throughout the country.
READ MORE »Reshaping the U.S. Solid Waste Paradigm in the Era of Infrastructure Legislation
Is the U.S. ready to shift its solid waste paradigm to reach the new national recycling goal of 50% by 2030? In Waste Today, Paige Davis talks about the importance of pivoting towards a more sustainable system by integrating circular economy and zero-waste principles.
READ MORE »Where are GBB-ers? Women’s History Through Today in Our 5 Home States
Throughout the United States and the world, women have consistently contributed to the advancement and improvement of solid waste management and environmental protection in communities. Women are playing a more influential role in the environmental movement than ever before. To celebrate this achievement, GBB is spotlighting female environmentalists from each of the five states that are home to current GBB staff.
READ MORE »The Next Phase in the Climate Change Fight
In his column in Waste Today Magazine, Wyatt Williams (GBB Engineer I) talks about the next phase in the climate change fight. GBB’s sustainable materials management hierarchy is mentioned as part of the discussion on the need to minimize the use of landfills in favor of resource recovery facilities with a lower climate impact. Opportunities in recycling and sustainability are also brought up along with the example of a community leading by example!
READ MORE »It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to recycle!
Despite a downturn in the recycling markets in 2018-2019, the prices and demand for recyclables from municipal curbside recycling have rebounded and are now experiencing record highs! Understanding why they have gone up that much is important, though.
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