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2024

11 – Mercury News: When ‘compostables’ are actually garbage
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
07 – The Almanac: Still have questions about California’s composting law?
06 – Waste Dive: Palo Alto, CA, amending GreenWaste recycling contract in move to prioritize domestic markets
05 – Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto shifts to domestic markets for recycled goods
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
09 – Waste360: How GreenWaste Recovery’s top-line tech digs deeper into waste
06 – Waste 360: Biocellections chemical recycling process backed by GreenWaste Recovery and City of San Jose
02 – ABC7: Councilman proposes bringing plastic waste recycling plant to San Jose
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
2016
01 – Cedar St. Times: Cardboard collection in Pacific Grove
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
04 – Biocycle Magazine: High solids Anaerobic Digestion + Composting in San Jose
01 – Monterey County Weekly: Waste district endorses new company for Peninsula hauling
01 – Monterey Herald: Monterey Peninsula cities consider new waste hauler
2013
12 – Monterey County Weekly: Four companies vie to take over lucrative rights to haul Peninsula’s waste
2012
03 – Mid-County Post: Closing the loop on food waste
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
2010
12 – Renewable News: MRFing our way to diversion
10 – Santa Cruz Sentinel: Rinsing recyclables
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
2007
05 – The Green Corner: San Jose Education Foundation
04 – The Green Corner: Friends of Guadalupe River Park & Gardens
03 – The Green Corner: Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT)
02 – The Green Corner: Certified Green Business
2008
11 – San Jose Magazine: Green Challenge Waste Wise