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April 2015

NERC’s Advisory Members

Distinguished Benefactors

Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

Benefactors

Coca-Cola

Samsung

Waste Management

Sustaining Members

  • Advanced Drainage Systems

  • American Beverage Association

  • Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR)

  • Blount Fine Foods

  • BlueTriton Brands

  • Bulk Handling Systems

  • Casella Resource Solutions

  • CLYNK

  • Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, Inc.

  • Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference

  • Eco-Products

  • Fire Rover, LLC

  • GDB International

  • Glass Packaging Institute

  • Henkel

  • Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI)

  • International Bottled Water Association

  • Keep America Beautiful

  • Keurig Dr. Pepper

  • MRM

  • Nestle USA

  • NEWMOA

  • PaintCare

  • Plastics Industry Association

  • Re-TRAC

  • Recycling Partnership

  • Republic Services

  • Reverse Logistics Group

  • Revolution

  • Serlin Haley

  • Sims Municipal Recycling

  • Sonoco

  • Strategic Materials

  • Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC)

  • TOMRA

  • US Composting Council (USCC)

A list of all the logos of our Sustaining Members can be found under Advisory Members

MEMBERSHIP

New Sustaining Member

Renewing Sustaining Member

New Supporting Member

Renewing Supporting Member

Member Spotlight - Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI)

NERC NEWS

ADVISORY MEMBER NEWS


NERC’s mission is to promote sustainable materials management by supporting traditional and innovative solid waste best practices, focusing on waste prevention, toxics reduction, reuse, recycling and organics recovery.

State and Advisory Member Updates, as well articles of General Interest and guest blogs are provided as submissions to NERC and may not reflect the policy or position of the Northeast Recycling Council, Inc.

NERC is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

MEMBERSHIPNERC thanks its newest Sustaining Member - International Bottled Water Association, and its renewing Sustaining Member, MRM.  In addition, we welcome our newest Supporting Member - the American Coatings Association, and renewing Supporting Member - IPL, Inc..

To see a complete listing of NERC's Members and Supporters, as well as the benefits of membership, visit the NERC Advisory Membership web page.

The broad spectrum of interests represented by NERC's Advisory Members, Individual Supporters, and Board Members and their willingness to participate significantly contribute to the unique and important role that NERC plays in recycling in the region.

With the addition of a new Director of Advisory Member Services, we are looking forward to a new and expanded membership program.  

Member Spotlight - Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI)

Have you ever wondered what happens to your old cell phone when you turn it back in to Electronic Recyclers International logoget the latest version? More than likely, if it cannot be refurbished, it is recycled to claim some of the valuable resources the phone contains. Those resources are then marketed to vendors who sell them to manufacturers who can reuse the materials in new products. Almost 100% of that phone is recycled, which is undoubtedly great for the environment. But what about the sea of other electronics that surrounds us in the United States? There is a company that provides a turn-key solution for recycling these products and has created the infrastructure to receive and process electronics in all 50 states.

Since 2002, Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI) has been collecting and recycling electronic waste, specializing in the sustainable dismantling of consumer electronic items. Founded by John Shegerian, ERI is the world’s largest privately held recycler of electronics, recycling more than 275 million pounds of e-waste annually.

“The vision I had when I started ERI was to create a business model that would work efficiently to create the best materials I could for manufacturers using recycled commodities,” says Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of ERI. “We looked around the world for the best equipment to do this work, and I am happy to say that now with our proprietary machinery, we are a leader in the electronic recycling arena. We are very proud of this accomplishment.”

Over its history, the company has recycled over 1 billion tons of electronics, including cell phones, televisions, computer monitors, tablets and white goods like washers, dryers and refrigerators. Furthermore, ERI was the first electronics recycling company in the world to receive R2 and e-Stewards certification (the two standards of judging environmental responsibility in the e-waste recycling industry).

ERI has eight recERI Shredderycling locations across the country: Fresno, California; Aurora, Colorado; Auburn, Washington; Flower Mound, Texas; Plainfield, Indiana; Badin, North Carolina; Holliston, Massachusetts; and Saddle Brook, New Jersey.  The company’s headquarters are in Fresno, California with branch offices in New York and Washington, DC.

ERI has the highest capacity and most technologically advanced e-waste shredding system in the world, thus providing its customers with a maximum economic benefit and maximum commodity return. All materials sent to ERI are 100% recycled into three main commodities: metalsplastic and glass. No electronics are placed in landfills, and nothing is illegally exported to other nations — all recycling and dismantling is done on American soil.

Aging Computers 

Desktop computers, or CPUs, are some of the most recyclable pieces of electronics in the ERI Shredder 2waste stream today. As more consumers move toward mobile computing with laptops, tablets and other mobile devices, many desktop computer models are becoming obsolete. Yet they still contain a wealth of valuable components, including but not limited to: steel, aluminum, power/breakage boards, hard drives, copper, black and white acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, polycarbonate A-boards, processors, memory sticks, net plastic and other miscellaneous e-waste parts.

Some 23.5 million desktop units were sold in 2010, but that number is just around half of the number of laptops sold that year. The EPA estimates that most desktop computers are used for three to five years, with 20% of household units stored for two or more years beyond that before reaching end of life. Fifty percent of computers reach end-of-life management at 10 years. This means computers are some of the longest-used electronics on the market today. According to the EPA, in 2010, 20.6 million computers were collected for recycling, weighing an estimated 168,000 tons.

Television and Computer Monitors Too

ERI mixed electronicsERI brought some of the best glass cleaning technology to the United States from Europe, and now  has a proprietary system, which is located in California. The large machine uses a “dry cleaning” method to clean the glass, and when the process is done, ERI sells the cleaned glass to recyclers.

“Recycling glass from electronic devices is one of the landmark issues in the electronics recycling industry,” says Shegerian. “ERI puts utmost importance on this issue. That’s why we have built this technology and have had it environmentally approved in California. We want to build more of these facilities across the United States. After our process, the glass is so clean it goes directly to the best glass smelters around the world.”

According to the EPA, approximately 235.6 million cell phones were sold in 2010. That number only figures to rise in the coming years.

Smart Reuse of Cell Phones

Many cell phones received by ERI are still functional. These cell phones are tested, entered into our proprietary tracking software and, when possible, refurbished and resold. This repurposing helps give new life to old cell phones.

Any device that cannot be repurposed ends up being shredded. ERI safely breaks down cell phones into sortable commodities like plastics, low-grade and high-grade metals and glass. Approximately 17.4 million mobile phones were collected for recycling in 2010, equal to some 2,240 tons of material. (source: EPA)

Recycling 1 million cell phones can recover 50 pounds of gold, 550 pounds of silver, 20 pounds of palladium and 20,000 pounds of copper. A ton of mobile phones (approximately 6,000) yields approximately $15,000 worth of precious metals. (source: Electronics Takeback Coalition)

More than 40 million U.S. households now have Blu-ray players, and many of those upgraded from a standard DVD player to complete their home theater system. (Source: USA Today)

How does ERI do it?

The company first attempts to reuse and refurbish any electronics that is still in good working order.

Items that cannot be reused or refurbished are typically  parsed to identify any working components, and then the remaining materials are broken down in ERI’s industrial-strength shredder to be recycled and reused in new manufacturing.

From the point of collection through the point of recycling, ERI ensures electronic devices are being managed in an environmentally responsible and data security conscious manner.

ERI dismantlingHere are some facts about the company:

  • ERI developed and houses the three largest, most efficient and most sophisticated proprietary e-waste shredders in the world.
  • ERI has developed the most advanced and efficient  proprietary glass cleaning system in the world today, solving the glass problem that so many e-waste recyclers struggle with.
  • ERI’s  proprietary dust filtration system (currently in effect in every ERI facility) is the world’s most successful of its kind, keeping workers and the surrounding communities safe.
  • ERI is a totally green organization – from the fleet of hybrid vehicles driven by the sales team to the electric forklifts used on the shop floor to the methodology used to recycle the hundreds of tons of electronic waste that pass through the company’s doors. Even the furniture used in house is made from recycled materials.
  • Fed by an innovative system of inter-warehouse conveyers, ERI's shredding system is hermetically sealed and OSHA approved.
  • "Cradle to Grave" barcode tracking system allows all materials to be tracked throughout all stages of the recycling process. This system insures compliance with environmental regulations as well as the privacy, satisfaction and integrity of ERI's clientele.
  • ERI provides customers with Certificates of Assured Destruction, assuring clients that their e-waste is 100% recycled and is done so ethically and lawfully.
  • ERI was the world’s first recycler of e-waste to be BOTH e-Stewards and R2 certified to de-manufacture and recycle every type of electronic waste in an environmentally friendly manner. 
  • ERI developed the first comprehensive video verification of destruction, providing clients with live video data of their e-waste destruction, removing all liability from clients and  ensuring confidential information will never end up in anyone else's hands.
  • ERI is the only e-waste recycler in the US to provide true nationwide coverage utilizing eight strategically located facilities across the country
  • ERI has a variety of collaborating brands which help build exposure for ERI and its clients, including 1800Recycling, GreenisGood Radio, SellBackTech/BuyBackTech, and more.

ERI’s main objectives are to:

  • Protect and promote each customer’s brand.
  • Mitigate data security risks and potential liability.
  • Provide efficient and thorough customer service.
  • Ensure environmental compliance.
  • Provide thorough, concise, and timely communication and reporting.
  • Commit to building a partnership based on collaboration and trust.

ERI offers a multitude of solutions for managing electronics regardless of the type of business and the level of service required.

NERC NEWS

Last Chance to Register for NERC’s Conference – Don’t miss out!

NERC is presenting its Spring Conference—Own the Future - Creative Options to Sustainable Materials Management—on April 7 & 8 in Wilmington, Delaware.  This event will address issues that recycling professionals are seeking more information on—effectiveness of product stewardship initiatives on recycling, impacts of single stream recycling, and dirty MRFs.  Don’t miss your chance to hear experts from around the country speak on these different materials management strategies. 

The Conference presenters and session moderators include:

You have until April 2nd to register for the Conference online.  Walk-in registrations will also be accepted at the door at a higher cost.  Don’t delay and register now!

In partnership with

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 Conference Sponsors

 

Platinum Sponsors

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Gold Sponsors

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Silver Sponsors

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For more information about the Conference, contact Mary Ann Remolador, NERC’s Assistant Director and Conference Organizer.

Don’t Miss Out on Tours Being Offered after NERC’s Conference – April 8th, 12:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA) will offer a FREE tour of two facilities—the ReCommunity Single Stream Material Recovery Facility (MRF) and the Revolution Recovery Construction and Demolition MRF— directly after the last session of NERC's Spring 2015 Conference on April 8th.

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The tour will take place at the 70-acre Delaware Recycling Center where DSWA partners with national recycling leader ReCommunity, who operates a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) The MRF processes, sorts, and bales all of Delaware's single stream recyclable material as well as some material from counties in Maryland and Pennsylvania. DSWA's second partner is Revolution Recovery, a construction and demolition (C&D) debris recycling company based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Revolution Recovery receives, sorts, and processes construction debris such as wood, drywall, metal, and carpet. The Delaware Solid Waste Authority owns and maintains the Delaware Recycling Center in New Castle, Delaware where ReCommunity and Revolution Recovery both operate a facility.

DSWA will provide FREE transportation to and from the Chase Center (the Conference facility). The Delaware Recycling Center is approximately 5 miles from Chase Center. A FREE Lunch will be provided in DSWA's Environmental Education Building also located at the Delaware Recycling Center. The duration of the tour is estimated to be 3.5 hours (12:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.).

Free Webinar – Food Scrap Management:  Models for Replication - April 14

A free webinar will be offered on April 14, 2015 at 1:30 PM EDT to present an in-depth look at two programs initiated by the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, along with other food scrap management tools and models. Food waste disposal is a national problem. Food waste is the largest discarded material category in the U.S. accounting for 14.1 percent of the municipal waste stream at 34.3 million tons per year. Food waste sent to a landfill is buried and decomposes in the absence of oxygen which produces methane, a significant greenhouse gas. 

Webinar topics:

  • Improving the Carbon Footprint at Wegmans Markets—an Analysis of Food Scrap Management Options

Headquartered in Rochester, NY, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a family-owned major regional supermarket chain. As part of their continued sustainability efforts, Wegmans contracted NYSP2I to evaluate alternatives which improve the greenhouse gas (GHG) or carbon footprint of their food waste disposal. These alternative scenarios included: anaerobic digestion, ethanol fermentation, and composting.  NYSP2I developed a first order model to quantify the GHG impact of these scenarios, examining the net GHG impact for each disposal process. The analysis showed that it is advantageous to redirect food waste from landfill and transport the waste to alternative bio-processing and composting sites within a 100 mile radius. 

  • Organic Resource Locator: Facilitating Sustainable Pathways of Organic Wastes

The Organic Resource Locator is a geographical, web-based tool to provide information on waste resources and waste conversion pathways in New York State. The development of the Organic Resource Locator (ORL) will be presented, including the data sources used for the tool. An overview of the ORL content, including the categories and information provided will also be discussed.  And, a high-level overview of how to use the ORL tool will provide participants with working knowledge of the ORL and its potential applications.

  • Additional tools and models

Including the Vermont Food System Atlas; Massachusetts Supermarket Recycling Certification Program, and the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Food Recovery Challenge.

Presenters

  • Brian Hilton, Senior Research Engineer, Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Ava Labuzetta, Pollution Prevention Engineer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Athena Lee Bradley, Projects Manager, Northeast Recycling Council

For more information, contact Athena Lee Bradley at athena@nerc.org or 802.254.3636.

School Composting in Bennington, Vermont

Monument Elementary in Bennington kicked-off its food scrap composting program on February 24 with a school-wide assembly. The school’s principal, Donna Cauley, presented introductory remarks about the new composting opportunity. NERC staff presented aMonument Assembly_CR Bennington Banner “how to” on recycling and composting at the school, along with a student interactive “Q&A” on what’s recyclable and compostable. Matthew Proft, with TAM Organics, provided an overview of the composting process at their compost facility. Collected scraps will be hauled by TAM Organics to their compost facility located in Bennington.

NERC also provided individual instruction on composting in each of the school’s classrooms and provided training to student “compost monitors” who will assist younger students in separating their food scraps for composting. The student monitors and the school custodian, Gary Kinney, will be stationed near the compost collection buckets in the cafeteria during lunches for at least one month to ensure program success. Mr. Kinney designed a special “compost collection” table to Food scrap_GaryandStudentmake it easier for students to separate their food scraps.

NERC was awarded a Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management and Prevention Division “Universal Recycling School Grant” to work with a minimum of four schools (k-12) in Bennington County to implement food scrap composting. The goal of the grant is to help schools come into compliance with Vermont’s Universal Recycling law, which requires residents, businesses, and schools to recycle and compost under a phased-in timeline. The project is also designed help to educate the next generation of Vermonters on how easy and important it is to recycle and divert organics.

Monument Elementary School serves approximately 140 students in Kindergarten through Grade Five.  

For information on the Vermont School Project, contact Athena Lee Bradley, Projects Manager.

Reuse Training & Event in the Saint Regis Mohawk Nation

As part of its Innovative Strategies & Best Management Practices for Implementing Reuse Programs in Rural Communities in New York State & the St. Regis Mohawk Nation, NERC has its first opportunity to work directly with a tribal nation. Working with staff from the Saint Regis Mohawk Nation’s Solid Waste Management Program, a reuse training has been scheduled for Friday, April 17, from 1:30-4 pm at Tsi' Tetewatatkens, the Saint Regis Mohawk Senior Center in Akwesasne.

The training will include an overview of reuse program design, including ongoing activities such as reuse sheds and special events, like toy swaps and community-wide garage sales; public participation; outreach; leveraging existing reuse opportunities; logistics, administration, budgeting, and more. Examples of other tribal nation reuse programs will be explored, along with program implementation strategies specific to tribal nations.

Akwesasne Garage Sale

In celebration of Earth Day, a first ever tribal-wide “Akwesasne Community Garage Sale” will be held from on Saturday, April 18 from 11 am – 3 pm. The Community Garage Sale will be held indoors at the old IGA Building in Akwesasne. The event will provide an opportunity for tribal members to sell and exchange usable clothing, toys, furniture, household goods, and other items. Constructing compost bins out of pallets, cinder blocks, and other reusable building materials, and how to compost will also be demonstrated during the event.

Reuse Training & Events in New York’s North Country

NERC is also working with representatives from St. Lawrence County and the Development Authority of the North Country to organize a second reuse training and event in the North Country. The first training and event was held in Watertown last December.

A St. Lawrence County Reuse Training will be held on Thursday, April 30, from 9 am – 2 pm in Canton. This free event will provide an opportunity for decision makers, municipal staff, nonprofit organizations, community activists, schools, and others interested in sharing and learning about reuse programs and the role reuse plays in reducing waste and benefiting our communities.

Innovative strategies and best management practices for implementing reuse opportunities will be discussed. Topics will include: Reuse program design, including ongoing activities such as reuse sheds and special events, such as community-wide garage sales; establishing a reuse center; campus reuse; textile recovery; public participation and effective outreach; leveraging existing reuse opportunities and regional partnerships; logistics, administration, staffing/volunteers, budgeting, legal questions, and more

College Move Out Days

Campus “move out” reuse opportunities will be held during the month of May at two university campuses in St. Lawrence County. These events help to reduce waste and provide reusable items for donation at the Rescue Mission, a regional charity. NERC, along with representatives from St. Lawrence County and the Development Authority of the North Country, are working with students and staff from SUNY Potsdam and Clarkson University to organize and implement the campus move out events.

Sponsors for the training and events include: the Development Authority of the North Country, St. Lawrence County Environmental Management Council, St. Lawrence County Solid Waste Department, Local Living Venture, Northeast Recycling Council, and Finger Lakes ReUse. Funded in part by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Programs & NYS Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I).

The trainings and events are free. For information about attending or about NERC’s Reuse Project, contact Athena Lee Bradley. NERC’s Reuse Project is seeking reuse program and event examples to include in a reuse guidance document.

Denver Makes it 150 Partners, 195,000+ Employees - National Green Program Grows

With the City and County of Denver, Colorado joining, the State Electronics Challenge now boasts 150 participant (Partner) organizations, with more than 195,000 employees.   The most recent Partners, in addition to Denver include:

  • City of Maplewood, Minnesota (MN)
  • Vermont Department of Corrections (VT)
  • Interior Alaska Green Star (AK)
  • City of South Portland (ME)
  • Central Management Services-BOAS (IL)

 To learn more about the State Electronics Challenge, take a look at one of the introductory webinar recordings, attending an upcoming introductory webinar (May 19), or just email.

NERC Blog Worth Repeating - Sustainable Materials Management

The catchphrase for the recycling industry these days is “Sustainable Materials Management.” It offers an opportunity for professional recyclers to move beyond our historically and limitedly defined role of “recycling professional.”

NERC’s Spring 2015 Conference, Own the Future - Creative Options to Sustainable Materials Management, being held in partnership with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, will bring together sustainable materials management professionals to explore product stewardship, extended producer responsibility, single-stream recycling and other issues on the horizon.  

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) is “an approach to serving human needs by using/reusing resources most productively and sustainably throughout their life cycles, from the point of resource extraction through material disposal. This approach seeks to minimize the amount of materials involved and all the associated environmental impacts, as well as account for economic efficiency and social considerations.”

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines SMM as “an approach to promote sustainable materials use, integrating actions targeted at reducing negative environmental impacts and preserving natural capital throughout the life-cycle of materials, taking into account economic efficiency and social equity.”

GreenBlue’s definition of SMM is multi-faceted:

  • Use Wisely - The old adage “waste not, want not” is more relevant now than ever. Use Wisely means that at each step of the production life cycle, we must seek to conserve material resources. The concept of dematerialization means combining various conservation strategies such as reducing the amount of materials needed to provide the function required, extending the service life of products, and eliminating the concept of waste by ensuring that there are robust markets to reutilize post-industrial and post-consumer materials.
  • Eliminate Toxicity - Providing consumers with products and services that are safe for people and the environment is only possible if they are made out of safe materials. GreenBlue is developing information sharing tools to help manufacturers communicate with each other along the entire product value chain, enabling them to make more informed decisions about the chemicals and materials they use to manufacture products.
  • Recover More - Recovering more value out of the materials economy is synergistically related to the principle of using materials wisely, because outputs from one part of an industrial system should be used as inputs to some other part of the system, so design issues impacting sourcing and end of life considerations start to become aligned.
  • Life Cycle Design - Sustainable materials management is predicated on life cycle design which is a process for identifying the positive and negative impacts of the life cycle of materials as they are produced and consumed in an economy.”

NERC staff asked members of its conference organizing committee, along with conference presenters, to weigh in on the SMM definition, here are their responses:

  • Chaz Miller, State Programs Director, National Waste & Recycling Association

 “Sustainable Materials Management is making products with the least material and energy use impacts on the environment, throughout the life cycle of the product.”

  • Rick Watson, Chief Executive Officer, Delaware Solid Waste Authority

Mr. Watson agrees with EPA’s SMM definition – “Sustainable Materials Management is the use and reuse of materials in the most productive and sustainable way across their entire life cycle.  SMM conserves resources, reduces waste, slows climate change, and minimizes the environmental impacts of the materials we use.”

  • Sherill Baldwin, Environmental Analyst, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Ms. Baldwin cites Oregon’s 2050 Vision and Framework for Action:

The materials management approach seeks to reduce environmental impacts by managing materials throughout all stages of their life cycle.  Materials management includes waste prevention and discards management. More broadly, it identifies impacts and actions to address those impacts across the full life cycle of materials and products as they move through the economy – starting with design and continuing through raw material extraction, manufacture, transport, consumption, use, reuse, recycling and disposal.”

  • Jerry Powell, Executive Editor, Resource Recycling

Sustainable materials management (SMM) is being seen as the new, improved way to assess how materials are produced and products are made and used.  Given the experience in Oregon, where SMM has replaced the traditional waste hierarchy and where the state environmental agency has fully moved to an SMM approach, a number of unique and intriguing hurdles exist in an SMM system.”

  • Bob Peoples, Ph.D., Executive Director, CARE

SMM is:  

A systems approach (LCA, social justice, rapidly renewable, green chemistry, etc.) which encompasses raw material selection, design for EOL management, reuse and recycle systems. It includes dematerialization and evolves as technology advances (a process). SMM engages all stakeholders.

  • Scott Cassel, Chief Executive Officer/Founder, Product Stewardship Institute, Inc.

Mr. Cassel also agrees with EPA…“Sustainable materials management is the use and reuse of materials in the most productive and sustainable way across their entire life cycle. Sustainable materials management conserves resources, reduces waste, slows climate change, and minimizes the environmental impacts of the materials we use.” But he would also add to the definition: “Economic development, since if we are using materials better, we are recycling and that creates jobs.”

  • Susan Robinson, Public Affairs Director, Waste Management 

Ms. Robinson defines SMM as: “Making materials management decisions based on Life Cycle Thinking.  Sustainable Material Management decisions should factor in the net economic, social, and environmental impacts of these decisions.”

ADVISORY MEMBER UPDATESUNTHA America To Attend Major Industry Trade Shows

UNTHA shredding technology America, Inc. will be appearing at several major trade shows this spring. Located in Hampton, NH, UNTHA America is a division of the Austrian-based UNTHA shredding technology GmbH, one of the world's leading providers of size reduction equipment for the recycling industry. The shows provide the perfect opportunity for businesses, industries and communities to gain more information about UNTHA America's wide range of products and its ability to customize equipment for recycling needs.

First stop was the National Association for Information Destruction Show (NAID) in Dallas, TX on March 20-22, 2015. The NAID trade show and conference is the single-largest gathering of industry leaders worldwide from the data destruction industry, and provides unparalleled opportunities for education and networking. 

UNTHA promoted its illustrious RS Series at NAID, including the RS 30, 40, 50 and 100. The RS Series has been tried and tested for decades and is well known as a line of rugged shredders which easily handle difficult operating conditions, multiple-shift continuous operation, and are capable of shredding everything from dashboards to bank notes. “More than 40 years of expertise is built into the RS Series,” says Maggie Wallus, marketing and sales support manager for UNTHA America. “We have more than 8,000 of these shredders in daily operation around the globe.”

March 30, 2015 found UNTHA exhibiting at MASSRecycle at the Boston Marriott in Quincy, MA. MASSRecycle is the state's largest gathering of recycling and organics industry leaders and enthusiasts, with more than 70 exhibitors and presenters on tap. The event provides the perfect opportunity for those in the field to share the latest developments in waste reduction services and technology.

 UNTHA America will be on the road again April 21-25, 2015 for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) show in Vancouver, British Columbia. This is the largest gathering of scrap recyclers in the world, with more than 5,000 industry professionals from around the globe in attendance. At the ISRI show, UNTHA will feature its RS 150 with its four-shaft shredding system. The RS 150 first coarse shreds material, then fine shreds it, all in one single operation. The illustrious RS Series has been a top seller for decades and is known for being a line of powerful and rugged shredders that can easily handle difficult operating conditions and multiple-shift continuous operation. The RS 150 is the perfect solution for the scrap metal, electronic, tire and hazardous waste industries, among others.

Recycling Partnership Technical & Educational Tools & Resources

The Recycling Partnership continue to grow our Technical and Educational tools and resources. Don’t miss out as we release free sharable images, newsletters and updates from our Busting Recycling Myths webinar series. Look for upcoming access to our online Adopting Carts resource and our Spring webinar: Building a Strong Cart Program