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Author Archives: Pete Shmigel, Columnist

Posted inGovernment/Regulations

Paving the roads with good intentions instead of recycled materials

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 16 September 202116 September 2021
Posted inColumns

Veolia’s Richard Kirkman talks shifting the cost of waste upfront and embracing EPAs

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 30 August 20211 September 2021
Posted inColumns

New “rules of the road” recycling and what the minister (and others) say

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 28 July 202128 July 2021
Pete Shmigel
Posted inWaste and recycling

Shmigel on sorting the waste to energy mess

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 15 July 202115 July 2021
Posted inWaste and recycling

Three innovators in the waste industry and what they think: RePurposeIt, ReGroup, and Bingo Industries

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 29 June 202129 June 2021
Posted inColumns

Waste and recycling policy to heat up at next election

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 15 June 202116 September 2021
Posted inColumns

The cold hard wasteful truth about plastics

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 3 June 20213 June 2021
Photo by: Maxwell Ingham
Posted inWaste and recycling

An insider’s look at the dirty old days of waste and where the industry is headed now

by Pete Shmigel, Columnist 19 May 202116 September 2021

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