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All Content > Industry News Coverage > New England

Title of entry: 
Waste Dive digs into the complex business of waste and recycling

Issue or Publication date:
9/3/2025, 11/25/2025, 8/25/2025

Publication name: 
Waste Dive

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https://www.wastedive.com/

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Waste Dive’s consistent in-depth reporting on topics ranging from federal issues to hyperlocal market trends has made it the authoritative resource for U.S. waste and recycling professionals.

The three submitted entries demonstrate the team’s ability to track business trends and draw on years of industry expertise to interpret the latest news.

In “Waste and the economy: 4 areas to watch for the rest of 2025,” Managing Editor Cole Rosengren, Senior Reporter Megan Quinn, and Reporter Jacob Wallace joined forces to highlight what the second half of 2025 would hold. Rosengren drew on experience covering a 2017 tax law to provide a highly detailed analysis of how changes to bonus depreciation and other provisions in a 2025 tax law would benefit waste companies. Wallace dug into the latest M&A trends — one of Waste Dive’s signature coverage areas — by combining trends from a publication database with insights from analysts. The team also provided industry readers with greater clarity on tariff implications, and Quinn previewed recycling commodity trends based on insights from her ongoing reporting.

For “IWS and Waste Connections buy up NYC market amid commercial waste shift,” what began as plans for a brief update story in September led to conversations with more than a dozen sources, yielding multiple stories later in the year. Rosengren exclusively uncovered multiple transactions and was the first to connect the dots about major waste companies’ acquisition patterns. The story also included a previously unreported lawsuit and unique details from city agencies that Rosengren obtained through public records requests and exclusive interviews.

Years of effort by Wallace and the team to build a relationship with the Teamsters and better understand the union’s perspective paid off for the article “Teamsters v. Republic: Behind the largest sanitation strike in decades.” We’d been following the building tension between the union and Republic Services, the industry’s second-largest waste company, for many years. In addition to covering spot news on ongoing developments, Wallace began to develop this feature to provide readers with additional context. This included detailed reporting from historical strike data, Waste Dive’s annual CEO pay survey, and numerous court documents. It also included unique interviews with affected parties across multiple states, including city officials, union representatives, labor experts and more. This provided our readers with the year’s most comprehensive account of a major waste workers' strike that drew national attention.