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How to implement an organics recycling program at your company?
Implementing an organics recycling program at work is straightforward, we promise. Urban Impact works actively with our customers to ensure that the organics collection is easy to understand, convenient, tidy and picked up regularly!
Urban Impact is proud to partner with a number of organizations to help them to host Shred Days in the community.
We recently partnered with Vancity's Mission Community Branch. Urban Impact provided our onsite shred truck and a shred driver to help Vancity raise funds for SARA for Women Society.
Urban Impact’s End Markets commentary essentially began this time last year. One year ago, there was active information being circulated in the recycling industry on upcoming changes to end markets in China. Discussion about the changes or proposed new stringent quality standards seemed impossible. There were more questions than answers, and it seemed that the information being provided to suppliers was changing every day. Without definitive requirements on end market specifications the processing industry could not understa
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes an update each year on recycling rates in the United State. The EPA’s report usually lags by two years; however, the report nevertheless is an interesting review about how recycling diversion rates are progressing in the US. 2015 recycling rate in the US were 34.7% versus 36.5% in 2014.
