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In 2005, Upstate Shredding purchased its sister company, Ben Weitsman & Son, Inc. Adam's father Fred announced his retirement in 2005, [5] and Adam acquired a new scrapyard in Solvay, New York, in 2009. [6] [7] In 2014, the company acquired Murtagh Scrap Handling, a recycler based in Rome, New York. [8]
Trex Company, Inc. is a manufacturer of wood-alternative composite decking, railing, and other outdoor items made from recycled materials. [6] Headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, Trex is the world's largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking and railing. [7] Trex composite products are made of 95% recycled materials.
Timber recycling or wood recycling is the process of turning waste timber into usable products. Recycling timber is a practice that was popularized in the early 1990s as issues such as deforestation and climate change prompted both timber suppliers and consumers to turn to a more sustainable timber source.
[6] [11] That year, Weitsman won the Platts Industry Leadership Award and the AMM Scrap Company of the Year award for the second year in a row. [12] [13] He was awarded Scrap Company of the Year by American Metal Market in 2015 and 2016. [14] Weitsman and his wife, Kim Weitsman, have invested in real estate in Skaneateles, New York.
Scavenging in Jakarta, Indonesia. A waste picker is a person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others to sell or for personal consumption. [1] There are millions of waste pickers worldwide, predominantly in developing countries, but increasingly in post-industrial countries as well.
Cline with his violin. Clair W. Cline (September 30, 1917 – September 19, 2010) was an American carpenter and cabinetmaker, who was a prisoner of war during World War II. [1] [2] He had the rank of first lieutenant in the 448th Bombardment Group, [3] and was captured by German soldiers when his plane was shot down over Holland in 1944. [2]
Post-consumer waste is distinguished from pre-consumer waste, which is the reintroduction of manufacturing scrap (such as trimmings from paper production, defective aluminum cans, etc.) back into the manufacturing process. Pre-consumer waste is commonly used in manufacturing industries, and is often not considered recycling in the traditional ...
Recycling one ton of newsprint saves about 1 ton of wood while recycling 1 ton of printing or copier paper saves slightly more than 2 tons of wood. [9] This is because kraft pulping requires twice as much wood since it removes lignin to produce higher quality fibres than mechanical pulping processes.