Dockside recycling on the move
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Loading docks are being used by the commercial and institutional sectors as the key recycling collection point, in the same way that curbside applies to the residential sector. Dockside is the most efficient and convenient way of storing recyclable waste materials for collection because it presents the most convenient access to transportation. Such facilities are being used extensively in food service operations, although they are also used by hospitals, hotels, prisons and military installations.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1996
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Aiming high on the Rio Grande
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A 20-acre composting facility in Brownville, Texas, uses up to 8,000 tons of vegetable waste per annum and makes a 300,000 US dollars cost saving for the county. Waste products come from a number of sources and include furniture sawdust, manure, hedge trimmings and other garden wastes. The facility's top quality compost is sold for 45 US dollars per ton. It uses between 15 and 16 percent of waste that would otherwise be dumped at a landfill site.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1997
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Commercial waste processing
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Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA is the site of Browning-Ferris Industries' (BFI) new materials recovery facility (MRF). Opened in Apr 1991, the new MRF handles up to 1,600 tons of mixed commercial trash from nearby residential and industrial areas daily. This reduces Newby Island Landfill's excess daily waste handling and will support Santa Clara county's 50% waste diversion goals by the year 2000.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1992
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