Organic Waste: Part 2
Photo by Dylan de Jonge on Unsplash What you start with is what you get. In part one of this …
Waste & Recycling Bins and Best Practices
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Organic Waste: Part 1
Several states have been targeting food waste for several years with rules that get more restrictive each year and impact smaller and smaller generators. If you are reading this, it may be that these rules have finally reached your business or institution. In California, the threshold is now down to folks who generate two cubic yards of waste (which includes the total of trash, recycling or composting that you generate).
Understanding Avoided Disposal Fees
Although avoided disposal fees are an important financial justification on a microeconomic level for many collection programs, avoided landfill disposal fees have nothing to do with how recycling or composting works on a macroeconomic level.
Process vs Recovery Part 2 – Organics
In part one of this post, I talked about the difference between treatment and recovery. Treatments are processes applied to a material or combination of materials. Recovery is the type, quality and quantity of commodities that are recovered from applying that process. That is an important distinction, especially when you hear about various treatments for managing organics.
Process vs Recovery Part 1 – Recycling
Recycling used to be simple. It was a transaction between someone who had a waste and someone who wanted that waste to manufacture a new product. Maybe there was a collector in between, but it was generally a pretty simple transaction.
Parallel Access
In my experience one of the most successful tools to achieving your goals is a methodology called parallel access.
Where are the Farmers?
If you want to tackle the issue of composting or food waste, reach out to farmers and include them in your discussions. You might be amazed at how much more successful your efforts are.
Evolving Ton
What do you buy? Is it the same thing you bought 10 years ago? 20 years ago? Is it packaged the same way? Do you buy it from the same place? Chances are, the answer is no.
Is America’s Recycling Industry Really in the “Dumps”?
Recycling is a manufacturing process. The recyclable materials we collect are commodities and like any commodities there are ebbs and flows in supply and demand.
