Tag: Central Landfill
Eleventh-hour bottle bill reignites debate between environmental, business groups
Disagreement over a state bottle recycling program is as pervasive as the piles of recyclable bottles and cans littering Rhode Island streets, beaches and...
Restaurants preparing for ban on Styrofoam containers
On one of his rare days off last summer, Scott Kirmil, owner of six Rhode Island eateries, with plans for a seventh, was sitting...
‘Wonky’ food program could save R.I. landfill
The rapid filling of the Central Landfill has been an important concern in Rhode Island for years and several steps have been taken to...
Report: Providence could save more than $1M annually by composting
PROVIDENCE – The city could save more than $1 million a year by composting residents' food waste rather than dumping it in the state...
PBN on WJAR-TV, July 30, 2018
With its only landfull nearing capacity, Rhode Island is off to a slow start trying to curb food waste
Every week, PBN Editor Mark S....
Winter weather continues to delay anaerobic digester start
JOHNSTON – Anaerobic digestion was meant to be the answer to Rhode Island’s 2016 food-waste ban, but more than six months after the licensure...
Does Rhode Island have right approach on food waste?
Tucked in a residential neighborhood of mostly rural Charlestown is the state’s largest commercial-scale compost-processing facility.
Second-generation Earth Care Farm owner Jayne Merner Senecal, whose...
R.I. Supreme Court rules in favor of Restivo Monacelli in landfill...
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $5.7 million Providence County Superior Court judgement against Providence accounting firm Restivo Monacelli...
EcoRI Earth diverts 40,000 pounds of material from Central Landfill
PROVIDENCE – EcoRI Earth, a residential food scrap-collection program serving Providence and Pawtucket, has diverted 40,000 pounds of nutrient-rich material from the state’s Central...