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September 16, 2024
GreenWaste Launches Innovative Pilot of North America’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Zero Emissions Refuse Collections Truck
SAN JOSE, CA, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 – GreenWaste®, a full-service resource recovery and recycling company, announced it is pilot testing...
September 11, 2024
21 Common Household Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
You’re familiar with the recycling symbol and likely have a colorful trash bin where all your plastics, cans, and paper...August 21, 2024
Recycling Leaders from California Acknowledged for Pushing the Envelope with Plastic and Textile Recycling
Solid waste management and recycling continues to challenge communities. Some impacted more than others. Despite this, many companies and agencies...
July 18, 2024
Do the things we throw into the Bay Area’s blue bins really get recycled? Here’s why the answer is changing
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Media Mentions
2024
10 – FreightWaves: Are hydrogen combustion engines delayed or DOA?
10 – EnergyNews.biz: GreenWaste Leads with Hydrogen Trucks
10 – Hydrogen Fuel News: Hyzon Motors Launches North America’s First Hydrogen-Powered Refuse Fleet
10 – electrive: Hyzon receives US order for FCEV refuse collection vehicles
10 – Waste & Recycling Magazine: GreenWaste set to be first user of hydrogen-powered collection vehicles
10 – EVMagz: Hyzon and GreenWaste Partner to Introduce Hydrogen-Powered Refuse Trucks in North America
10 – Waste Advantage: Hyzon Secures First Hydrogen Powered Fuel Cell Electric Refuse Truck Order in North America From Waste Industry Pioneer GreenWaste
10 – The EV Report: Hyzon and GreenWaste Introduce Hydrogen Refuse Trucks
10 – Renewable Energy Magazine: Hyzon Nabs First Hydrogen Powered Fuel Cell Electric Refuse Truck Order From Green Waste
10 – Waste Today: GreenWaste orders Hyzon hydrogen-powered refuse trucks
10 – Waste Dive: GreenWaste orders first set of Hyzon hydrogen refuse trucks in North America
10 – HotScup: Hyzon Secures North America’s First Hydrogen-Powered Refuse Truck Order with GreenWaste
10 – PRIDE Industries: PRIDE Industries Hosts 2nd Annual I AM ABLE Disability Job Fair
09 – Waste Dive: What’s next now that California’s EPR for textiles law has passed
09 – Waste Dive: California’s organics diversion mandate enters its ‘adolescent age,’ updated with new laws
09 – Waste 360: Bulk Exchange Links Waste Management Pros With Construction Project Contractors
09 – 24/7 Tempo: 21 Common Household Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
08 – Waste Advantage: Recycling Leaders from California Acknowledged for Pushing the Envelope with Plastic and Textile Recycling
07 – Mercury News: Do the things we throw into the Bay Area’s blue bins really get recycled? Here’s why the answer is changing
05 – Waste Today: GreenWaste releases 2023 Sustainability Report
05 – Good Day Sacramento: Learn how ‘GreenWaste’ is leading the charge in sustainability
05 – Waste Dive: Online C&D waste platform seeks to bring industry out of the ‘Stone Age’
04 – FOX 40: Gary on the Go visits GreenWaste Florin Perkins
2023
09 – Homedit: Drywall Recycling: Reducing Environmental Impact?
08 – AP News: Americans are still putting way too much food into landfills. Local officials seek EPA’s help
08 – AL Circle: TRP awards 2023 Aluminum Can Capture Grants to boost aluminum recycling
08 – Recycling Product News: AMP, Crown Holdings fund two more MRF can capture equipment grants
08 – Green Reporter: Supporting a more circular economy in Northern California’s waste market
07 – Waste Advantage: Mattress Recycling Council to Boost its Mattress Recycling Rate by Composting Cotton and Coconut Fibers
06 – Waste Dive: GreenWaste releases sustainability report with first emission goals
06 – Waste Today: GreenWaste releases 2022 Sustainability Report
2022
2021
12 – City of Palo Alto: New Garbage Processing & Disposal Services for Palo Alto
10 – WasteDive: Macquarie acquiring large stakes in GreenWaste and Zanker in its first California waste deal
02 – Recycling International: Novoloop CEO Miranda Wang: ‘We want to help double the size of the circular economy’
2020
2019
12 – Waste360: 40 Under 40: Greenwaste’s Lopez takes resource recovery, recycling to new levels
08 – San Jose Mercury: Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like
07 – MRC: MRW awards more than $120,000 in grants to California collection sites
04 – Californians Against Waste: China rejects most of our plastic. Now What?
01 – Resource Recycling: MRF of the Month
01 – RRCC: A New Era for Recycling: Q&A with CRRC leaders Tracy Adams and Art Pena
2017
10 – The Carmel Pine Cone: City joins restaurants in recycling food waste
09 – Cedar Street Times: GreenWaste Recovery wins National Award for Recycling Excellence
07 – The Carmel Pine Cone: Restaurateurs get first look at straw rule, plastics ban
06 – Recycling Inside: GreenWaste selects BHS for Mixed Waste MRF
06 – Recycling Today: GreenWaste Recovery uses BHS equipment for system upgrade
06 – Recycling Product News: GreenWaste selects BHS for Mixed Waste MRF
06 – Waste360: GreenWaste selects BHS for Mixed Waste MRF in San Jose
06 – Waste Management World: Five BHS Max-AI Robotic Sorting Systems part of major upgrade at San Jose recycling plant
03 – Waste360: How San Jose tackled cleanup duties in flood ravaged neighborhoods
2018
10 – Waste360: Aquarium Builds Blue Whale Art Installation From Single-use Plastic
08 – Green Matters: San Jose Is Recycling Its Plastics With A Revolutionary New Method
08 – ABC7 News: Public-Private Partnership In Bay Area Seeks To Make Chemicals From Hard-To-Recycle Plastics
08 – Waste360: GreenWaste Recovery Opens 90-tph Mixed Waste MRF
08 – Recycling Product News: GreenWaste Recovery, In Partnership With BHS, Opens 90-tph Mixed Waste MRF
07 – Telemundo: La ruta de los desechos en el Área de la Bahía
2015
09 – Recycling Product News: GreenWaste Recovery diverts 88 percent of incoming materials
07 – Recycling Today: GreenWaste Recovery opens single-stream plant in San Jose
07 – Waste Dive: GreenWaste Recovery opens MRF in San Jose
04 – Monterey County Weekly: New waste hauler in seven Peninsula cities will allow residents to recycle more
2014
2013
2011
08 – BioCycle Magazine: Creating infrastructure for commercial waste diversion
07 – Santa Cruz Sentinel: Capitola’s Pacific Coast Manor downsizes daily waste
06 – Resource Recycling Magazine: From multi-family to clean streams
05 – BioCycle Magazine: New frontier for commercial waste in San Jose
02 – Santa Cruz Sentinel: Capitola food waste program
2009
12 – MSW Management: Modern MRF
11 – BioCycle Magazine: MRF Organics Recovery
10 – CIWMB Newsletter: Multi-Family Recycling Program San Jose
08 – USA Today: Is biogas the way to San Jose’s energy independence?
08 – Mercury News: SJ turn waste into power
07 – Recycling Today: MRF Trash to Treasure
06 – Resource Recycling: MRF of the Month