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Slide Deck: CleanMed 2015
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 MoreGreen Bash
Green Bash Look, if you don’t like my parties, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, leave in a minute and a huff. – Groucho Marx This continent likes to party around the pool, in the park, on the porch, in boats, around campfires, and before the game. Just about anywhere and any […]
Read MoreMaster and Commander
Master and Commander of the MRF Part 2 in a series, reprinted with permission from Resource Recycling magazine, May 2015 issue. Download full article here: Master and Commander of the MRF Reread part 1 in the series: Negotiating the Single Stream
Read MoreSlide Decks: Conference Board Sustainability Summit 2015
RRS and Dow Discuss the New American Frontier of Material Recovery The U.S. is behind the world when it comes to reuse and recycling – that is no secret. Corporate sustainability officers have shied away from focusing on recycling targets because they appear complicated, metrics can have regional variation, or they score low on materiality […]
Read MoreCalculating Access: A Critical Measure Toward True Recyclability
Calculating Access: A Critical Measure Toward True Recyclability Do you have recycling at your home? At your workplace? What about your friend in the apartment building around the corner? Or your cousin in the next town over? The variety of responses to these simple questions provide a glimpse into the complex landscape of access to […]
Read MoreNegotiating the Single-Stream
Part 1 in a series, reprinted with permission from Resource Recycling magazine April 2015 issue. Click here for PDF: Negotiating the Single-Stream Read part 2 in the series: Master and Commander of the MRF
Read MoreSlide Deck: C&D World 2015
The C&D World 2015 Exhibition & Conference took place in the capital of country mush, Nashville, TN, this past March 28-31. RRS’ President JD Lindeberg took to the stage and provided insight on the Top Ten Considerations for a Successful C&D Processing Start Up. The presentation was created in collaboration with RRS’ Affiliate VP, Michael […]
Read MoreCool Thing by RRS: Mobile App for Set-Out Rate Study
Cool thing by RRS: Mobile App for Set-Out Rate Study In-person data gathering. This doesn’t stir up images of “cool”. It more likely stirs up images of clipboards, pencils and transcribing data into a spreadsheet. Heading into a recent project with Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, our project team was thinking about various ways to gather […]
Read More4 Tips for Creating a Better Waste Management Plan
4 Tips for Creating a Better Waste Management Plan Recycling and waste management should be implemented as a resource management system, not a waste management system. As recycling programs began to be implemented in the 1970s and 1980s they were thought of as part of the solid waste collection system. Recycling programs were expected to […]
Read MoreA Meeting of the Minds
A Meeting of the Minds Public Discussion of Private Sector Recovery In late January several of RRS’ private sector recovery and sustainability experts gathered around a video conference to chat about current trends, hotspots, and opportunities. Here are a few highlights of that conversation. Q: Which sustainability topics are […]
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