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...