This story originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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How has the materials recovery industry progressed in its ongoing efforts to increase diversion?
To offer a portrait, Cascadia Consulting utilized data from the U.S. Census, the Washington state Office of Financial Management, and publicly available information from the state of California, the City of Seattle and King County, Wash.
The charts below indicate a drop in per person landfilled quantities of divertible materials on an annual basis.
Nonetheless, the fact that there are still quantities of recyclables and food/yard waste being landfilled points to an opportunity. Does that mean more education and outreach, improved practices, more aggressive policies, or a combination of those strategies?
This article originally appeared in the April 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.
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Over the past decade, the materials recovery facility in Northumberland County, Ontario has enjoyed a series of upgrades, including new balers, a new screen system and optical sorters for fiber. But Karl Allen, plant manager, has learned that equipment is only one of the ingredients for success.
This story originally appeared in the November 2015 issue of Resource Recycling.
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This story originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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Bill Rich of Republic Services; David Rabbit, county of Sonoma supervisor; and Mike Caprio of Republic Services celebrate the opening of the facility.
Once known as the “Egg Capital of the World,” the town of Petaluma, Calif. is where the egg incubator was invented. It also once had the world’s only drugstore meant exclusively for poultry. Continue Reading
The ton has done a lot of evolving over the past three decades. And to better manage the changing composition of incoming materials, EBI Environnement made major upgrades to its MRF last fall.
This story originally appeared in the January 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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