“As we clean the material streams, we add value not only to that material, but to the material management and manufacturing industries as a whole.”
Meagan Huth / Presidio Environmental
The current model for recycling in the U.S., which has been in place for decades, is broken. Presidio Environmental is presenting solutions for a cleaner, more holistic and greener future. The articles and studies below paint a dim picture of the current methods of the recycling industry.
Currently, over 100 million tons* of recyclable materials end up in U.S. repositories per year.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
The simple solution is to separate materials at the collection point to minimize contamination in each material stream. Dual-stream recycling and drop location collection yield the least contamination and provide the most efficient process for handling recyclable materials.
*published by USA EPA 2018
“The days of stand-alone repositories are limited.”
Derrick Standley / Presidio Environmental
Presidio Environmental 