The Spanish word perdido translates to “lost,” so it’s fitting an advanced materials recovery facility has been built adjacent to Florida’s Perdido Landfill. The MRF is working to help the local community hold onto valuable commodities.
When Chad Hurley helped found YouTube in 2005, he likely had no idea the video-sharing website would later help his hometown tell the world about its new materials recovery facility.
If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then Athens Services’ MRF is the other man.Features from the April 2017 print edition:
- Assessing the ROI of EPR
- Community Spotlight: Asking residents to sort? One city’s done it for decades
- Data Corner: What’s still heading to landfill
- MRF of the Month: EBI Environnement
- Size reduction done right
- The fundamentals of survival – and growth
- Zeroing in
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Many municipalities struggle to find downstream uses for recovered glass, but one study offers a bit of hope for a modest new end market.
For North America’s largest haulers, recycling pleasure has given way to pain. After enjoying big returns from higher commodity prices in the first quarter, three recycling giants noted tumbling fiber prices in April.
A research firm is asking industry professionals to provide information for a broad analysis of the state of U.S. materials recovery.