Waste Management Begins Organic Recycling Program for Businesses

Waste Management is set to develop an organic recycling program in Tehachapi, Calif., that focuses solely on businesses and multifamily dwellings.

The company has been reaching out to businesses and informing the community about how the new recycling program is meant to meet new state regulations and help reduce contamination rates set by other countries.

The program would focus on businesses or multifamily dwellings that accumulate 4 cubic yards, or 4,000 pounds, of organic waste per week. Organic waste includes scrap food waste, food-soiled paper and green waste.

Tehachapi News has more:

Recycling is changing, adapting and growing, especially in regard to how to deal with disposal of the countless tons of trash gathered every month.

Waste Management is reaching out to businesses and informing the community about a new organic recycling program that is for now focused solely on businesses and multifamily dwellings. This program is not only to meet new state regulations, but also try to reduce contamination rates set by other countries.

“We have to do a much better job ensuring that the material that we bail and sell off on the commodities market is contaminate-free as possible,” said Josh Mann, Waste Management public sector solutions manager.

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