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Recycle America ® “Sustainable Recycling Programs” Municipal Waste Management Association 2002 Fall Summit November 2002 RECYCLE AMERICA Commitment to Recycling • Recycling is a core business for Waste Management • Our Goal: Sustainability and Growth for Waste Management and its customers by: – Lowering cost of collection – Making processing more efficient – Managing commodity price risk – Develop and grow recycling niches RECYCLE AMERICA Comprehensive Recycling Services 190 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) 91 stand alone facilities (including Canada) 99 integrated facilities (including Canada) Secondary Processing 4 Electronics Processing Plants (eCyclingsm Services) 9 Glass Processing Plants (Container Recycling Alliance) RECYCLE AMERICA Comprehensive Recycling Services Secondary Processing (Continued) 1 Optical Sorting Plastics Facility 3 Decasing and Destruction Operations Commodity Marketing and Trading Services Market 4 Million Tons/year of Commodities Plastics and Niche Commodities WM Trading Group formed in June 2001 RECYCLE AMERICA Leading National Infrastructure RECYCLE AMERICA Single Stream Technology & Equipment • 5th or 6th generation now • Competition between vendors generating technical improvements • Good separation of fiber and non-fiber RECYCLE AMERICA Single Stream Hauling Objectives Meet customer demand Significantly reduce collection truck operating cost Leverage the use of large body compaction vehicles Enable opportunities for cart-based semiautomated /fully automated collection Using older MSW trucks for recycle routes. Standardization of the WMI collection fleet. RECYCLE AMERICA Single Stream MRF Objectives Effective separation of fiber and non-fiber materials Reduce labor costs per ton processed Upgrade legacy fiber sort and bottle and can sort systems (circa 1993) Increase in recovered materials Recycle America’s Twin Cities Single Stream System Empire WM Recycling Facility Santa Rosa, California RECYCLE AMERICA The “No-Sort” Plastic Solution • Overall increase in plastic production • Decrease in residue/ residue expense • Reduction in labor hours • Reduction in workers comp. liability • Marketing advantage due to #1 through #7 resin Raleigh, North Carolina acceptance RECYCLE AMERICA Prince George County MRF RECYCLE AMERICA The “No-Sort” Plastic Solution • Mixed Plastics Baled and Shipped to Raleigh, NC • Shipped by rail • Decrease in Labor Prince George County, Maryland Recycle America and Gallo Glass Company Union City, CA Open House • Optical Sorting Technology • Supplying superior quality, three-mix glass for use in new glass bottles • Operations began in June 2001 Recycle America Glass Recycling • Optical sorting technology produces high-quality endproduct • Union City, Madera, Vernon (Los Angeles), Calif., facilities all feature optical sorting technology • Governor’s Award recipient for Innovation in Glass Processing RECYCLE AMERICA eCyclingsm Services • 4 Regional Processing Centers Phoenix, AZ Houston, TX Minneapolis, MN Kernersville, NC • 1 Nonferrous Scrap Metal Facility (NJ) • 60+ Collection Depots • Programs in 20+ States RECYCLE AMERICA eCyclingsm Services • Nation’s Most Comprehensive Recycling Infrastructure & Logistics -Leverage use of WM facilities (landfills, transfer stations & MRFs) to collect and consolidate electronics -Electronics shipped to Recycle America and certified vendors RECYCLE AMERICA Commercial Electronics Streams • • • • Computer equipment Circuit boards Consumer electronics Cables, wires,controls, switches, connectors • Ferrous and non-ferrous metals • Specialty products RECYCLE AMERICA Managing Commodity Price Exposure • Waste Management-Recycle America markets over 4 million tons per year of paper – 60 percent of tons are bulk grades of OCC and ONP • 75 percent of volumes are under long-term contracts with mills, including minimum floor pricing provisions • WM trading group formed in June 2001 as natural extension of current physical paper recycling business • WM managing commodity price exposure for customers and company RECYCLE AMERICA Kevin McCarthy, Director of Electronics Recycling Recycle America Asset Recovery Group 2615 Davis Street San Leandro, CA 94577 510-563-4214 510-563-4210 (fax) 510-501-7070 (cell) Toll free: 866-588-0572 [email protected] www.wm.com/recycling