Implementing a comprehensive safety program at your MRF is the key to long-term success.

The city of Chicago has issued a request for qualifications for firms interested in leasing the city’s three material recovery and recycling facilities (MRRF). This request is the first step in leasing the MRRFs, and is comparable to the process...

ON ONE SIDE OF THE RECYCLING EQUATION are the mills, which are demanding the highest quality materials possible. On the other side are the suppliers, residences and businesses that recycle paper and other materials. And in the middle of it all is...

Declining recycling rates and continued market stability for recyclables. Those are just two of several issues that were first and foremost on the minds of materials recovery facility (MRF) managers recently interviewed by Waste Age during a...

MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, the decision to retool a materials recovery facility (MRF) is driven by the bottom line. If operators can prove that changes in equipment and facility design will increase the tonnage processed per hour and reduce labor and...

IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE FACT of recycling equipment: despite the strictest adherence to maintenance routines, efforts to keep out any unprocessables and resisting temptation to run machines beyond what is recommended, balers will, in fact, wear out...

MOVING RECYCLING RATES up a notch may soon require policing waste generators, if you look to Los Angeles and Seattle as indicators. Recently, the city of Los Angeles Department of Public Works (LADPW) announced that it will not collect the...

Although Colorado has the reputation of being an environmental state, it doesn't officially support recycling...