staff has designed highly successful municipal recycling and waste reduction programs for both residential and commercial clients, and large industrial complexes.
These systems include residential curb-side or household collection of co-mingled or segregated recyclables and separate containers for high volume commercial generators.
While the situation may vary from City to City worldwide, the advantages of a co-mingled or “Blue Bag System” for residential MSW are highlighted below –
An example of potential revenues from recyclables from the Gulf Region is illustrated below –
The above prices are subject to change and driven by market demand and are provided here to solely to illustrate the potential for recycling.
Perhaps more importantly – recyclables removed from the waste stream help to conserve valuable landfill disposal capacity – thereby increasing the available disposal capacity for a municipality, and in the long term reducing landfill operating costs.