Rumpke Consolidated Cos., Cincinnati, will donate $100 for each run batted in by the clean-up hitter of the Louisville Bats during home baseball games this season. The Bats are a AAA-affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.

Houston-based Waste Management opened a landfill gas-to-energy facility at the company's Austin Community Landfill in Austin, Texas. The new facility is the ninth such facility for Waste Management in Texas.

Victor “Skip” Berg has started Environmental Strategies, Annandale, N.J., a sales management and strategic planning firm that deals with products and services within the waste and recycling industries.

World Waste Services, Miami, secured a residential recycling contract for single-stream service to 224,000 homes in South Florida — two-thirds of the households serviced in Miami-Dade County.