Tuesday, November 12, 2024

TOPICS

Home Tags R.I. Resource Recovery Corp.

Tag: R.I. Resource Recovery Corp.

OFFERING ­ALTERNATIVES: Scott Kirmil, owner of the Diego’s restaurants in Rhode Island, displays the recyclable food containers his eateries use, a year before a ban on Styrofoam containers goes into effect. Opponents of the ban say small restaurants will have to bear additional costs. 
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

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...
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
FINISHED PRODUCT: Sam Fox, a former assistant manager at Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, shows a handful of finished compost. The farm is the state’s largest facility at which commercial-scale food-waste producers can divert materials to keep them out of the Central Landfill in Johnston.
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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....
WHILE LICENSED TO OPERATE, the anaerobic digester located at the Central Landfill in Johnston and built by Blue Sphere Corp., is still not operating anywhere near full capacity, citing issues with cold winter weather. / COURTESY BLUE SPHERE CORP.

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...
COMPOST CENTRAL: Jayne Merner Senecal, owner of Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, the largest commercial-scale licensed composting facility in the state, with Jeff Glover, farm support, who is holding a grabber and bucket that he uses to clean the piles of unwanted items. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
THE R.I. SUPREME COURT overturned a $5.7 million lower court judgement against Providence accounting firm Restivo Monacelli for alleged malpractice in its audits of the state's Central Landfill in Johnston./ PBN FILE PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
- Featured Event -

Latest News