Healthy Food, Healthy Environment, Healthy Community Hospitals are in the business of making people healthy. However, promoting good health goes beyond the exam or operating room. That extension of encouraging health can be seen in the food selection in the cafeteria, the recycling/composting practices in the waste management department – all of which appeal to […]
Read MoreNW&RA Webinar: The Costs of Recycling The National Waste & Recycling Association(NW&RA) hosted The Costs of Recycling webinar featuring William P. Moore, President of Moore & Associates, Michael Timpane, Affiliate Vice President of RRS, and Anne M. Germain, P.E., BCEE, Director of Waste & Recycling Technology for NW&RA. The webinar shared the costs of recycling […]
Read MoreReprinted with permission from Plastics Recycling Update May 2015 issue. Click here for PDF: Good Things in Small Packages
Read More2015 Governor’s Summit and Michigan Recycling Coalition Annual Conference In May of 2015, RRS participated in the combined event that culminated around recycling in Michigan. Below are several of the presentations given by RRS. RRS led the effort to gather information and quantify the state of recycling in Michigan. This project was made possible by […]
Read MoreRRS Awarded GSA Schedule 899 Contract July 7, 2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan – Sustainability and recycling consultancy, Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Schedule 899 Environmental Consulting contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the procurement arm of the federal government. The five-year contract allows federal […]
Read MoreNational Trade Collaborative Publishes MRF Material Flow Study RRS leads efforts to study sortability and recyclability of variety of materials. July 9, 2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan – Sustainability and recycling consultancy, Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), announced today the publishing of the MRF Material Flow Study. The study focused on the flow of specific packaging forms […]
Read MoreFrom the study… “Packaging companies have an interest in ensuring that the packages they produce or sell their products in have the opportunity to be recycled. The ability to recycle the package can be a consumer’s deciding factor in the purchase of a particular product. This, and the desire to minimalize environmental footprints, are the drivers behind the recently […]
Read MoreThe Value of Recycling Is recycling in America working? The mix of global market dynamics, domestic public policy and societal values that comprise the answer to that question is as complex as the stream of waste our highly local recycling systems are attempting to manage. The rate of consumer participation in recycling continues to grow. […]
Read More5 Ways to Reduce Large-Scale Food Waste Monica Walker In the past several years, food waste reduction strategies have become more innovative, both with residential food waste and larger amounts of food waste from commercial establishments. To date, composting and feeding the hungry have been popular strategies to reduce food waste. The EPA hierarchy provides […]
Read MoreInnovative Food Waste Reduction Strategies Monica Walker We’ve heard the typical suggested methods for reducing food waste including feeding hungry people, feeding animals, composting, and others. We even covered the topic in a recent blog 5 Ways to Reduce Large-Scale Food Waste. Most of those examples are on a large-scale, a more commercial or municipal […]
Read More