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Waste Management opening new recycling plants in Ontario and Topeka, Kan.

Published Nov. 19, 2012
By
Shauna Blackmon Contributor

Dive summary:

  • Waste Management of Canada has opened the largest, privately owned, state of the art recycling facility in Ontario.
  • Both facilities use single-stream recycling processes and will accept both industrial and municipal waste.
  • The facility in Ontario will process more than 606,000 tons of material per year and recycling rates in Kansas are expected to increase by 50% with the new facility.

From the article:

Waste Management (NYSE: WM) has opened two new material recycling facilities (MRFs) that will help it deliver single stream recycling services in Topeka, Kansas and south western Ontario, Canada.

Waste Management of Canada said that its new 126,000 square foot (11,700 square metre) facility, located in the city of Cambridge is now the largest licensed private-sector recycling facility in Ontario. ...
 

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