Resource Recycling

Feb. 27, 2014

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1 | Fuel efficiency guidelines reach recycling industry


Stricter fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks could have ripple effects in the recycling industry.

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2 | Plastics Recycling 2014: Recycling from single-stream sources


Balancing collection volume with quality is tough, and with single-stream curbside programs on the rise throughout the country, many MRFs and downstream processors are facing new challenges. How do collectors, recycling facilities and plastic processors at all stages of the value chain source, sort, process and sell plastics from single-stream?


Plastics Recycling 2014 will offer a session delving into the issue. With a specific look at single-stream collection and plastics processing in North Carolina and the Southeast, Scott Mouw of the North Carolina Division of Environmental Assistance and Outreach, Susan Albritton of Sonoco, and Scott Saunders of KW Plastics will trace the plastics recycling process from curbside commingled collection, to MRF, to plastic recycling facility.


Don't miss Plastics Recycling 2014, to be held March 11-12 at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit www.plasticsrecycling.com.


Attendees are also invited to come early and stay late for some great additional events. On the afternoon of March 10, the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) will host a technical forum. The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) will hold its winter membership meeting on March 13. And the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Environmental Division will hold the Global Plastics Environmental Conference March 12-14. Go to www.plasticsrecycling.com for more information.

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3 | How I Spent My Grant: Awareness and zombies in Georgia county


The first installment of our new grant feature looks at the ways officials in Athens, Georgia leveraged Curbside Value Partnership funding to raise recycling rates (and the dead).

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4 | Haitian recycler awarded Clinton Foundation grant


A Haitian recycling center is getting a boost from a former president's foundation.

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5 | Paper group battles all-out digitization


As the federal government moves toward doing more of its business online, one group has gained some political traction by arguing for "paper options."

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6 | Recycling Innovators Forum offers spotlight for problem solvers


Community engagement is one of recycling's most persistent challenges. From small collection depots, to state-of-the-art MRFs, the quality and volume of recyclable materials depends on the everyday choices made by individual consumers.


This is just one of the areas in which creative minds in the recycling industry think there is room for improvement. At last year's inaugural Recycling Innovators Forum (click here for a feature on the event), the winning idea included a mobile app, designed by Earth911 that helped consumers gauge the recyclability of different items. This year, ideas to boost consumer engagement are again attracting interest ranging from single inventors, all the way up to teams backed by larger organizations.


The second annual Recycling Innovators Forum is a competition to seek out the highest-return, most actionable new ideas to move recycling forward and is sponsored by Alcoa, the American Chemistry Council, Coca-Cola Recycling, Resource Recycling (the parent company of this publication) and Waste Management. The competition will be held on Sept. 15, the day before the start of the annual Resource Recycling Conference in New Orleans, and will award two $20,000 prizes to the top two of the 10 Forum finalists.


For more information about competing in, or attending, this free event, visit www.recyclinginnovators.com.

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7 | NewsBits


Environmental groups mount a campaign to halt Houston's plan to collect trash and recyclables in the same bin, and a GoPro camera offers a material's-eye view of the new Sims MRF in Brooklyn. Find the details in NewsBits.

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8 | Industry & supplier news


Aluminum rolling and recycling firm Novelis was honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a winner of its Climate Leadership Award for exemplary leadership in reducing carbon pollution and addressing climate change. Presented by the EPA, in collaboration with the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR), the Third Annual Climate Leadership Awards were presented to 15 companies. Novelis was honored in the Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management (Goal Achievement Award) category for publicly reporting and verifying corporate GHG inventories and achieving aggressive GHG emissions reduction goals. For more, visit www.novelis.com.


Wegmans Food Markets is the newest participant, and the first grocer, to join the Sustainable Packaging Coalition's How2Recycle Label program. With the addition of Wegmans, the How2Recycle Label surpassed its 2013 goal of 20 participating companies. The label program works with a number of package recycling stakeholders to better communicate material recyclability to consumers. For more visit www.how2recycle.info.

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9 | Upcoming conferences & webinars


Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars! If you have a conference or webinar that you would like listed, please send an email to [email protected] for consideration.

10 | Classifieds


The following recycling and composting products are currently on the market. For more information on this equipment, click here or contact Bill at 216-396-0600.


Two stackers: a 30" x 80' self-contained diesel radial stacker, and a 30" x 80' radial, portable electric stacker.


A 2010 Doppstadt 726 trommel screen with 1-1/2 inch punch plate drum


A 2009 Doppstadt 3060 slow speed shredder, model DW3060K


A 2001 SCAT 4832 windrow compost turner, engine CAT 2116

11 | Jobs available & sought


Manager of Waste Prevention, British Columbia Environmental Standards Branch (Victoria, British Columbia).
Details are available here.


General Manager: Corrugated Cardboard, RockTenn (Portland, Oregon).
Details are available here.


Sales Manager, EREMA North America, Inc. (Ipswich, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.


General Manager, CP Manufacturing (San Diego).
Details are available here.


Mechanical Designer, CP Manufacturing (San Diego).
Details are available here.


Sort Systems Engineer, CP Manufacturing (San Diego).
Details are available here.


Operations Manager, Smurfit Kappa (Arlington, Texas).
Details are available here.


Recycling Specialist, City of Livermore (Livermore, California).
Details are available here.


Industrial Development Representative, North Carolina Department of Environment & Natural Resources (Raleigh, North Carolina).
Details are available here.


Product Sales Manager, Synagro (Central Valley/Southern California).
Details are available here.


Various, Newark Recycled Paperboard Solutions (National).
Details are available here.


Various Sales Positions, Waste Management (National).
Details are available here.


Various, Product Stewardship Institute (Boston, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.


Various Positions Highlighted by the Northern California Recycling Association (Northern California Area).
Details are available here.


Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.


If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, send an email to associate editor Dan Leif at [email protected].

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