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Getting home safely
In my decades in the recycling field, I have seen a lot of facilities, seen a lot of recycling plans, and had a lot of conversations about recycling programs. Yet one that will always stick with me was on a tour of a recycling processing facility in which there was an operations manager who said ...
Summertime dreaming Pt. 2
In my last post, I talked about incorporating recycling bins to summer construction and redesign projects. If you start talking about recycling bins in the building after the construction project is completed, you are likely going to get involved in planning about recycling the during the renovation. If you have never worked with this waste ...
Summertime dreaming Pt. 1
Summertime dreaming has often been a coping skill for those of us in northern climates. When the weather gets so cold that it is described in vulgar terms that equate it to a witch’s bosom or a rat’s behind, we all go a bit crazy. It’s often time to put on Jimmy Buffet or Bob ...
Reflections for a New Year
It’s that time of year again. Time for reflection on the past year and resolutions about the year to come. As you reflect, what would you change about your recycling program or sustainable materials management efforts? Where are you? I think the first assessment is to reflect on where you are in your program’s development. ...
Five days of fixing recycling rates: day 5
In my “Paved with good intentions” post, I touched on some of my concerns with recycling rates. So how do we resolve those issues and create a better working system? Here are some elements that I think any system needs to have Sub-Categories A companion per-capita metric The ability to reconcile waste to energy and ...
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