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Press Releases and Media Mentions
August 3, 2019
Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like
July 1, 2019
MRW Awards More than $120,000 in Grants to California Collection Sites
April 4, 2019
Recycling crisis: China rejects most of our plastic. Now what?
January 14, 2019
Resource Recycling: MRF of the Month
Fact Sheets
Past Media Mentions
2023
09 – Drywall Recycling: Reducing Environmental Impact?
08 – Americans are still putting way too much food into landfills. Local officials seek EPA’s help
08 – TRP awards 2023 Aluminum Can Capture Grants to boost aluminum recycling
08 – AMP, Crown Holdings fund two more MRF can capture equipment grants
08 – Supporting a more circular economy in Northern California’s waste market
07 – Mattress Recycling Council to Boost its Mattress Recycling Rate by Composting Cotton and Coconut Fibers
06 – GreenWaste releases sustainability report with first emission goals
06 – 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
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
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
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