A Green Choice Bio-Recovery Center will Extract Valuable Commodities that are Not Recovered in Most Recycling Centers Today and Keep These Materials from Going to Landfills or Incinerators
Waste management companies continue to utilize three primary formats to process municipal solid waste: landfills, incinerators, and recycling centers, where pre-sorted recyclable materials are sent. Collection, transport and disposal into a landfill is no longer considered responsible waste management. Landfills have been the standard solution for waste disposal, not because they are good, but because there has been no economically or environmentally better alternative.
Encapsulating unprocessed waste in a landfill generates dangerous leachate, explosive gases and prevents the recovery of vast quantities of valuable recyclable material. A Green Choice Bio-Recovery Center can now provide an alternative to traditional landfilling, and a significant improvement in the recovery rates of valuable commodities when compared to existing recycling centers.
Recycling Centers Only Recovered 26% of the Valuable Commodities in Typical Waste Streams
Use of recycling centers, driven by government pressures, has been the only solution the waste industry has developed in the last 30 years to divert material from going to landfills. At both the private (green, blue, red bins) and municipal level, waste diversion occurs once the pre-sorted materials are processed at recycling centers (also referred to as a Material Recovery Facility or MRF).
- These facilities typically only recover recyclable materials from a source separated waste stream (such as curbside recycling).
- Since the key to successful curbside recycling is totally dependent on individual participation, the majority of recyclable material is not recovered.
- In 2010, recycling centers in America recovered 65.8 million of the 249.9 million tons of municipal solid waste generated for a 25.8% recovery rate (excluding composting).
- Corporations looking to improve their sustainability measures must use multiple recycling bins throughout their facilities for employees to separate materials that a Green Choice Bio-Recovery Center would accept unsorted.
- In addition, commodity pricing, transportation and processing costs also impact the economics of existing recycling centers.
- In some instances, escalating costs have forced these services to be suspended or discontinued as witnessed during the recessionary downturn in 2008 and 2009.
Contact us to learn more about how a Green Choice Bio-Recovery Center can help you recover up to 90% of your solid waste stream.
