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OSHA Renews National Alliance to Enhance Worker Safety in Waste and Recycling Industry

August 29, 2025

OSHA, NWRA and SWANA will focus on safety issues, including transportation hazards such as backovers and distracted driving, slips, trips and falls.

How the UK manufacturing sector is tackling waste

Reducing environmental footprint is becoming a global priority

Pieter du Plessis

October 24, 2024

A high priority for the manufacturing sector has been managing hazardous waste and reducing the annual levels created.

Q&A with Mips CEO on the company's sustainability strategy

Benita Mehta

June 27, 2024

Recently helmet-based safety technology company Mips released their 2023 Sustainability Report. The report revealed that Mips reduced emissions per solution by an average of 20.8% compared to 2022. ISHN asked Mips CEO Max Strandwitz some questions for more insight into the report.

America Recycles Innovation Fair to look for solutions

November 12, 2019

A “fair” intended to encourage recycling innovations will be held Thursday, November 14, 2019, in Washington, DC. The first-ever America Recycles Innovation Fair, which is open to the public, is aimed at finding solutions to enhance the U.S. recycling infrastructure, creating new markets for recycled materials, and improving education and outreach about recycling, according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

Environmentally-friendly gas detection

The solution: reduce, reuse & recycle

Michelle Hammons

July 11, 2017

Consumer electronic waste is a serious problem. Americans replace their cell phones every 22 months, leading to over 140 million cell phones in U.S. landfills annually. The components in those phones break down, allowing toxic substances to leach into the surrounding soil and water systems.

Saf-T-Gard International, Inc diverts 22 tons of scrap rubber from landfills

October 28, 2015

Voltgard, a division of Saf-T-Gard International, Inc., is doing its part to keep both industrial workers and the environment safe by implementing “greener” business practices such as recycling 22 tons of out-of-service rubber insulating products generated at the Voltgard Test Lab to prevent further landfill pollution and its environmental consequences.

3 million acres of water free from mercury by Air Cycle Corporation customers

March 27, 2013

Air Cycle Corporation is very pleased to announce that as of March, 2013 our customers have kept over 3 million acres of water free from mercury contamination through their waste recycling efforts.

OSHA issues info on protecting workers from mercury exposure in fluorescent bulbs

August 2, 2012

OSHA has issued two new educational resources to help protect workers from mercury exposure while crushing and recycling fluorescent bulbs.

Streamlight announces first quarter 2012 recycling results

Company and distributors collect more than 2,000 pounds of rechargeable batteries

June 20, 2012

Streamlight®, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance flashlights, announced that the company and several of its U.S. distribution partners recycled about 2,100 pounds of rechargeable batteries during the first quarter of 2012.

NJ company illegally dumped waste for years

December 23, 2011

Lieze Associates, dba Eagle Recycling, of New Jersey, was sentenced recently in federal court in Utica, N.Y., following their guilty plea to conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act and to defrauding the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division announced today.