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NewsBits

By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling

Houston-based trash and recycling giant Waste Management, Inc. today announced that it would be restructuring, cutting 700 jobs [1]. According to the company, the move is "designed to flatten the management structure" and streamline the multi-billion dollar company.

The City of Boulder has set up three composting bins in high traffic areas that passersby can put their organic waste in. According to a news report posted on the city's website [2], the bins were specifically set up to collect compostable coffee cups and other containers that many businesses have switched to in their efforts to support Boulder's goal of reaching an 85 percent waste diversion rate by 2017.

The New York Times writer David Bornstein has an interesting op-ed on the Times' online "Opinionator" column called The Recycling Reflex [3].

A Georgia woman is accused of smuggling marijuana into prison inmates working at a recycling center. According to the Rome News-Tribune [4] the pot was secreted away between flattened cardboard boxes being brought in to be recycled. (via [5] Waste & Recycling News)

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