Resource Recycling Systems is taking the year of 2012 to highlight all of our service sectors and showcase relevant projects, clients, and trends in each area. In correlation with our conference schedule, we focused January on organics management and biomass energy, but as the month comes to a close, we are shifting February’s focus to our business roots in residential recycling. Read the whole story…
Article copied from MLive.com – Article source – The Flint Journal, written by Kristin Longley
The city of Flint is hoping for a second chance at the $1.1 million energy grant that was terminated by federal officials in October.
After the U.S. Department of Energy yanked the grant because of what it called “serious mismanagement and misuse,” Flint officials have submitted a revised proposal for spending the money on projects that promote energy efficiency.
Federal officials are expected to decide by Jan. 13 whether to reinstate the grant award, officials said.
Details of the proposal weren’t immediately available on Wednesday, but City Attorney Peter Bade said the city is partnering with Ann Arbor-based Resource Recycling Systems to develop the plan for using the grant funds.
Copied from Huffington Post Business Section – Article by Michael Zacka
Tuesday is American Recycles Day, and every individual who recycles, or makes it their business to purchase recycled materials, is a hero. And here is a tale of recycling that highlights the collaborative efforts of many stakeholders in a basic industry who have made heroic strides to increase recycling efforts in the United States.
The saga starts with the carton.
Would you like to learn about how to add cartons to your recycling programs? If so, you’re in luck! RRS’s CEO Jim Frey and Project Consultant Anna Collinson – along with Jeff Epstein and Tom Wright of the Carton Council – are hosting a series of free webinars all about carton recycling during the month of August.
The webinar will cover basics of carton recycling as well as examine the success of the recent flip in Los Angeles, California. These webinars are free to everyone and are full of valuable information about expanding your recycling program.
We will be hosting three webinars during August! If you would like to sign up, please email Tina Colatruglio at tcolatruglio@recycle.com. More information will be available soon.
Long-time RRS client Lucas County, Ohio, recently made headlines in the American Recycler newspaper. City officials from Toledo and the Lucas County Board of Commissioners came to the decision to privatize waste and recycling services for 180,000 households in northwestern Ohio after reviewing case studies from similar programs across the country. The new collection strategy will be more efficient, incentivize recycling and work to expand program sustainability over the next year. Congratulations, Lucas County and the City of Toledo!
Click here to read the full article in American Recycler.
Recently Kirk Heinze, host of WJR’s Greening of the Great Lakes program, spoke with Resource Recycling Systems’ Jim Frey about the importance of reaching out as a resource to help our major institutions fuse green practices into their every day operations. Please click here here for the article and interview.
Resource Recycling Systems’ CEO, Jim Frey, took a break from the Michigan snow this week. Just arriving back from the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) conference in Los Angeles, California, Jim talked with many west coast professionals about best practices in zero waste initiatives.
The conference, taking place on February 16 and 17, was SWANA’s “Thinking Outside the Blue Box: The Road to Zero Waste.” The conference hosted six technical sessions covering a variety of topics helping communities start the journey to achieving zero waste. Read the whole story…
Hilton Head, SC – If you have ever been to Hilton Head Island, you know it is absolutely gorgeous. This very popular vacation destination has 12 miles of sandy beach on the Atlantic Ocean, location of an average 200 sea turtle nests, home to a variety of ocean and salt marsh wildlife and what seems to be a million Palmetto and Live Oak trees. The eco-friendly development standards have preserved the island’s natural features for all to see and cherish. Read the whole story…
Ann Arbor, MI – After an exciting Super Bowl game last Sunday, CBS aired a new show called Undercover Boss. Just as most of us at RRS were excited to see the Audi Green Police commercial, we were equally intrigued to see a behind scenes look at Waste Management, a company in which we cross paths with often. The overall premise of the show included valuable insight into the Waste Management company as Larry O’Donnell (President and COO) worked alongside his front line employees as he sorted recyclable materials at a Material Recovery Facility (MRF), rode in a curbside collection truck, collected litter at a landfill site, cleaned porta-potties and helped operate a landfill scale house. As many of us watched this episode, we could all relate with how many times upper management hasn’t understood the concerns, frustrations and hurdles the average employee has as they traverse to get their job done on a daily basis. Read the whole story…
Ann Arbor, MI – Where you part of 57% of people who were more interested in watching each 30 second, $3.1 million dollar commercials instead of the actual Super Bowl game? If so, you are one step closer to joining the “green” crowd. Read the whole story…
