Dive Brief:

• Waste Management has opened a new recycling facility in Sterling, Colorado.
• The company will now offer customers single stream curbside recycling, commercial single stream and a drop-off option.
• ​The plant has the capacity to process recycling for 48,000 people in the area, and the ability to divert over 3,750 tons of household recyclables from entering the landfill.

Dive Insight:

The plant will accept everything from newspapers, aluminum foil, cans and cardboard, to paper, certain plastics and containers labeled Nos. 1 to 7. Partial funding for the facility was provided by the State of Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment Resources Economic Opportunity Fund Grant Program. Waste management processes almost 15 million tons of recyclables annually, in the plants it operates around the U.S. The company is looking to triple that volume by 2020.