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2. Republic Services - Wikipedia

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   Republic Services, Inc. is a North American waste disposal company whose services include non-hazardous solid waste collection, waste transfer, waste disposal, recycling, and energy services. It is the second largest provider of waste disposal in the United States (as measured by revenue) after Waste Management .

3. Paper recycling - Wikipedia

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   Waste paper collected for recycling in Italy Bin to collect paper for recycling in a German train station. The recycling of paper is the process by which waste paper is turned into new paper products. It has a number of important benefits: It saves waste paper from occupying homes of people and producing methane as it breaks down.

4. Waste collection - Wikipedia

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   Household waste in economically developed countries will generally be left in waste containers or recycling bins prior to collection by a waste collector using a waste collection vehicle. Waste collection barges are used in some towns, for example in Venice , Italy.

5. Waste Management, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   These new garbage and recycling trucks comprise one of the nation's largest fleets of heavy-duty trucks powered exclusively by natural gas. [ 39 ] In November 2009, at Waste Management's Altamont Landfill, a new plant began producing 13,000 gallons a day of LNG fuel from methane gas from the landfill that had fueled an electric power plant ...

6. Single-stream recycling - Wikipedia

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   Materials recovery facility in Montgomery County, Maryland. Single-stream (also known as “fully commingled” or "single-sort") recycling refers to a system in which all paper fibers, plastics, metals, and other containers are mixed in a collection truck, instead of being sorted by the depositor into separate commodities (newspaper, paperboard, corrugated fiberboard, plastic, glass, etc ...

7. Recycling bin - Wikipedia

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   The modern Blue-Box recycling bin was invented by Jack McGinnes nearly one hundred years after Poubelle's idea to sort types of waste by type. [9] The proliferation of curbside blue-bin recycling containers coincided with the increase in municipal recycling rates which increased from just over 6% in 1960 to over 35% in 2017. [9]