Industry Insights

May of this year was the worst on record since I began reporting waste and recycling facility fire incidents in 2016. In May, we incurred 49 reported fire incidents. Then came June. In June, we incurred 50 reported fire incidents. That is more than 1.5 fire incidents each day. Of those fires, 27 occurred at waste, paper and plastic facilities; 14 occurred at scrap metal facilities; three occurred at construction and demolition (C&D) facilities; three occurred at hazmat facilities; and three occurred at organics facilities.

byRyan Fogelman