Recycle America Recycle America® “ “ Sustainable Recycling Sustainable Recycling Programs” Programs” Municipal Waste Management Association 2002 Fall Summit November 2002
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Recycle America Sustainable Recycling Programs Municipal Waste
Management Association 2002 Fall Summit November 2002
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RECYCLE AMERICA Commitment to Recycling Recycling is a core
business for Waste Management Our Goal: Sustainability and Growth
for Waste Management and its customers by: Lowering cost of
collection Making processing more efficient Managing commodity
price risk Develop and grow recycling niches
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190 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) 91 stand alone
facilities (including Canada) 99 integrated facilities (including
Canada) Secondary Processing 4 Electronics Processing Plants
(eCycling sm Services) 9 Glass Processing Plants (Container
Recycling Alliance) RECYCLE AMERICA Comprehensive Recycling
Services
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RECYCLE AMERICA Comprehensive Recycling Services Secondary
Processing (Continued) 1 Optical Sorting Plastics Facility 3
Decasing and Destruction Operations Commodity Marketing and Trading
Services Market 4 Million Tons/year of Commodities Plastics and
Niche Commodities WM Trading Group formed in June 2001
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RECYCLE AMERICA Leading National Infrastructure
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RECYCLE AMERICA Single Stream Technology & Equipment 5 th
or 6 th generation now Competition between vendors generating
technical improvements Good separation of fiber and non-fiber
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RECYCLE AMERICA Single Stream Hauling Objectives Meet customer
demand Significantly reduce collection truck operating cost
Leverage the use of large body compaction vehicles Enable
opportunities for cart-based semi- automated /fully automated
collection Using older MSW trucks for recycle routes.
Standardization of the WMI collection fleet.
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Effective separation of fiber and non-fiber materials Reduce
labor costs per ton processed Upgrade legacy fiber sort and bottle
and can sort systems (circa 1993) Increase in recovered materials
RECYCLE AMERICA Single Stream MRF Objectives
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Recycle Americas Twin Cities Single Stream System
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Empire WM Recycling Facility Santa Rosa, California
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RECYCLE AMERICA The No-Sort Plastic Solution Overall increase
in plastic production Decrease in residue/ residue expense
Reduction in labor hours Reduction in workers comp. liability
Marketing advantage due to #1 through #7 resin acceptance Raleigh,
North Carolina
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RECYCLE AMERICA Prince George County MRF
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RECYCLE AMERICA The No-Sort Plastic Solution Mixed Plastics
Baled and Shipped to Raleigh, NC Shipped by rail Decrease in Labor
Prince George County, Maryland
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Recycle America and Gallo Glass Company Union City, CA Open
House Optical Sorting Technology Supplying superior quality,
three-mix glass for use in new glass bottles Operations began in
June 2001
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Recycle America Glass Recycling Optical sorting technology
produces high-quality end- product Union City, Madera, Vernon (Los
Angeles), Calif., facilities all feature optical sorting technology
Governors Award recipient for Innovation in Glass Processing
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RECYCLE AMERICA eCycling sm Services 4 Regional Processing
Centers Phoenix, AZ Houston, TX Minneapolis, MN Kernersville, NC 1
Nonferrous Scrap Metal Facility (NJ) 60+ Collection Depots Programs
in 20+ States
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Nations Most Comprehensive Recycling Infrastructure &
Logistics -Leverage use of WM facilities (landfills, transfer
stations & MRFs) to collect and consolidate electronics
-Electronics shipped to Recycle America and certified vendors
RECYCLE AMERICA eCycling sm Services
RECYCLE AMERICA Managing Commodity Price Exposure Waste
Management-Recycle America markets over 4 million tons per year of
paper 60 percent of tons are bulk grades of OCC and ONP 75 percent
of volumes are under long-term contracts with mills, including
minimum floor pricing provisions WM trading group formed in June
2001 as natural extension of current physical paper recycling
business WM managing commodity price exposure for customers and
company
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Kevin McCarthy, Director of Electronics Recycling Recycle
America Asset Recovery Group 2615 Davis Street San Leandro, CA
94577 510-563-4214 510-563-4210 (fax) 510-501-7070 (cell) Toll
free: 866-588-0572 [email protected] www.wm.com/recycling RECYCLE
AMERICA