Adapting to Disruption Change is an inevitable aspect of working together as stakeholders. However, my experience in the last half of 2021 was that the change had come more rapidly and broadly than ever before… Read More »Stakeholder Update – 02/23/2022
Overview – Source American Trucking Association 10/25/2021 In 2021 a historic shortage of just over 80,000 drivers (current number of drivers vs. the optimal number of drivers based on freight demand) was reached. This is… Read More »Driver Shortages and the Impact on Waste and By-Product Transportation
Overview Driver shortages, overcapacity in the incineration marketplace, consolidation in the industry due to extensive merger and acquisition activity, and increasing manufacturing in North America has led to industry wide pricing increases. The imbalance in… Read More »Escalating Prices for Transportation and Disposal of Materials
Overview In 2021 a captive incinerator was closed requiring the volume of materials managed at this site to be managed in the commercial thermal marketplace. An estimated 30,000 tons of waste material from 90 manufacturing… Read More »Incineration Capacity Constraints and the Ripple Effects on the Management of RCRA Wastes
This month, a United Nations Assembly in Nairobi is negotiating the terms of a Global Plastics Treaty, which if ratified could be the most significant international environmental action since the Paris Climate Accords. This treaty… Read More »WTS Supports a Global Plastics Treaty
We have previously published articles regarding the HWGIR and its impacts (Part I, Part II & Part III) on Hazardous Waste generators. A key facet of the rule is having the individual states adopt the… Read More »State Adoption of Hazardous Waste Generator Improvement Rule Update
The Superfund Tax on chemicals, which expired in 1996, has been reinstated as part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and will go into effect starting July, 1st 2022 (until January 1, 2031).… Read More »Superfund Tax Reinstatement
