Tag: R.I. Resource Recovery Corp.
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...
Revamping ‘8% law’ among Smiley’s 2024 legislative priorities
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley on Thursday laid out his administration’s 2024 legislative priorities, focusing efforts on revamping the controversial "8% law" regulating...
Providence launches litter removal initiative for public spaces
PROVIDENCE – In an effort to reduce litter, the city is making grants of up to $25,000 available to local organizations to help clean...
Five Questions With David Bordieri
David Bordieri | Waste prevention coordinator, R.I. Resource Recovery Corp.
1. You’ve worked at RIRRC in multiple positions for 30 years. What have you...
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...
McKee unveils plan to lower state paint-recycling fees
PROVIDENCE – Lt. Gov. Daniel J. McKee has announced a plan to reduce the paint-recycling fees imposed on consumers by Paint Care, a multimillion-dollar...
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...