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Collection/Transfer — May 6, 2021

LRS Makes General Manager Hire with Former Waste Management District Manager

LRS has named Shadeed Spence its General Manager, a newly created position designed to accommodate LRS’s operational growth. Spence began his 7-year waste industry career as a Site Manager and worked his way up to his most recent position as District Manager for Waste Management before joining LRS. “As LRS continues to expand its Midwest […]

Collection/Transfer — May 6, 2021

Compost/Organic Recycling — May 6, 2021

Central Ohio’s Kids that Compost: Growing Group Promoting Food-Waste Recycling

An organization that has expanded over the past two years from its roots in Grandview Heights to about a dozen central Ohio communities gives youths leadership roles in helping residents convert the food they don’t eat into compost material instead of landfill refuse. Kids that Compost was founded in 2019 by Mona Barber, a Grandview […]

Compost/Organic Recycling — May 6, 2021

News and Press — May 5, 2021

Brightmark Breaks Ground on Caballero Renewable Natural Gas Project in Arizona

Brightmark, the global waste solutions provider, today broke ground on the Caballero Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project, which includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at Caballero Dairy Farms, an 8,800 animal farm in Eloy, AZ. Upon completion of the project, the digesters are anticipated to generate 214 MMBtu of renewable natural gas daily. The […]

News and Press — May 5, 2021

Education — May 5, 2021

Registration Open for CARE’s 2021 Annual Conference: “Carpet Recycling: Forward Together”

CARE will hold its 19th Annual Conference on August 31-September 1 at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The theme of the Conference, “Carpet Recycling: Forward Together,” illustrates an industry that has come through the financial and social pain caused by the pandemic ready to collaborate and grow the carpet recycling ecosystem. “We […]

Education — May 5, 2021

Newsletter Headline — May 5, 2021

EnviroPerks and TFC Recycling Expand to Nags Head, NC

Residential waste and recycling hauling loyalty program provider EnviroPerks (formerly Recycling Perks) in partnership with Tidewater Fibre Corporation (TFC) Recycling expands to Nags Head, North Carolina. TFC Recycling is a family-operated recycler focused on collecting, processing, recovering, and responsibly disposing of post-industrial and post-consumer recyclables. Once TFC Recycling expands to Nags Head on May 1, […]

Newsletter Headline — May 5, 2021

News and Press — May 5, 2021

New, Free Tool Enables U.S. Companies to Set Ambitious Packaging Strategies to Reduce Plastic Waste

The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ has launched Plastic IQ, a cutting-edge digital tool to help U.S. companies develop effective plastic packaging waste reduction strategies. Created with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ is a forward-looking, data-based planning tool that is aligned with industry best practices. The tool allows companies to prioritize actions to address plastic packaging […]

News and Press — May 5, 2021

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