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The Material Recovery Facility is operated by Sims Municipal Recycling, part of Sims Metal Management, a large recycling company which holds a 40-year contract with the City of New York. [1] The 11-acre (45,000 m 2) property sits on the Sunset Park side of the Gowanus Bay, at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. [2]
The Inc. 5000 ranked The Penny Hoarder as the fastest-growing private media company in the U.S. in 2017. ... Scrap metal prices were rising because of the pandemic caused shipping woes ...
New York City is a hotbed of canning activity largely due to the city's high population density mixed with New York State's container deposit laws. [18] Canning remains a contentious issue in NYC with the canners often facing pushback from the city government, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and other recycling collection companies ...
For bottle-to-bottle recycling, the bottles have to be decontaminated which was achieved by introducing "super-clean recycling processes," which in the US was done for the first time in 1991. [5] These processes clean "recycled PET flakes to contamination levels similar to virgin PET pellets," so that they can be reused as beverage containers. [5]
The Plastics Reduction and Recycling ... New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins speaks at the 22nd annual American Jewish Committee Westchester/Fairfield Thanksgiving ...
Recycling materials waiting to be barged away on the Chicago River Trash and recycle bin at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Recycling statistics (ca. 2014) [16] with similar numbers as of 2015 [17] An average of approximately 258 million tons of trash is generated by the United States in 2014 34.6% was recycled; 12.8% was combusted for ...
Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. [5] In fact for every 10% of cullet added to the production of a new bottle, energy usage goes down by 3-4%. [2] Recycling one ton of glass can save approximately 42 kWh of energy which translates to 7.5 pounds of air pollutants not being released into the ...
New York: New York's bottle bill has been in place since January 12, 1983. [74] New York charges a 5¢ deposit on plastic, metal, and glass containers 3.78 l (1 gallon) or less. [citation needed] Oregon: The Oregon Bottle Bill, enacted in 1972, was the first container deposit legislation in the United States.