The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) welcomes Casella Waste Systems, Inc. as its newest member. Casella is the largest recycler and most experienced fully integrated resource management company in the Northeastern United States, providing solid waste collection and disposal, transfer, recycling, and organics services to more than 900,000 residential, commercial, municipal, institutional, and industrial customers.
“HPRC is pleased to welcome Casella as our newest member,” shared Peylina Chu, Executive Director of HPRC. “Casella’s mission to create value by renewing and sustaining our resources and environment complements HPRC’s goals and values. We’re looking forward to learning from their experience and collaborating on projects to advance the recyclability of healthcare plastics.”
Casella also provides professional resource management and consulting services to over 10,000 customer locations in over 40 states nationwide, including hospitals, medical manufacturers, medical packaging companies, life sciences, and pharmaceutical companies to customize resource management programs unique to the healthcare industry and their individual sustainability goals.
“Investments in infrastructure and creative resource management solutions allow us to help make the world a safer and more environmentally friendly place for current and future generations,” says Casella Chairman and CEO, John W. Casella. “Today, for every metric ton of greenhouse gas we emit through our operations, we prevent 4.8 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions throughout the economy, through the recycling, energy, and carbon sequestration services we provide, which enables us to help advance HPRC’s mission and goals.”