Greentech Lead America: ReCommunity, a recycling and
recovery company, announced the opening of a “single-stream” recycling facility
in the City of Tucson.
The company has invested $7 million in the
state-of-the-art processing facility. At full capacity, the fully-automated
facility will create more than 80 green jobs in Tucson.
ReCommunity offers a more efficient, effective recycling
program, allowing residents to use a single recycling collection bin, while
also providing processing services to more residents, generating more
recyclables, and leading to less land-filled material.
The recycling facility accepts a wider array of plastic
containers numbered one to seven. Prior to ReCommunity, residents could only
recycle plastic bottles and jugs numbered one and two. In addition, ReCommunity
will create a recycling education center at the facility for community tours
and school groups.
“With innovative processes and technologies and totally
committed people, we are building a market-leading recycling and resource
company, partnering with forward-thinking communities to transform waste into
valuable resource assets for economic, social and environmental value,” said Sean
Duffy, ReCommunity president and COO.
By making recycling easier with single-stream processing
technology, ReCommunity enables residents and businesses in communities across
the United States to increase their recycling volume by 20 percent to 60
percent.
At full capacity, the ReCommunity Tucson facility will
prevent more than 232,165 metric tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases from
being emitted annually, which is equivalent to taking about 42,523 cars off the
road each year.
ReCommunity also operates recycling and recovery
facilities in Phoenix and Scottsdale. The company has a total of 36 facilities
operating in 13 states with more than 1500 employees.