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The First Star Recycling Company in Nebraska has halted single stream from commercial participants as of June 1st, 2018. The pressure causing them to end this practice stemmed from new international recycling specifications.<\/p>\n

The company has reported contamination rates of 40 percent and their resulting labor costs have become too great.\u00a0… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[605]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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\"\"The First Star Recycling Company in Nebraska has halted single stream from commercial participants as of June 1st, 2018. The pressure causing them to end this practice stemmed from new international recycling specifications.<\/p>\n

The company has reported contamination rates of 40 percent and their resulting labor costs have become too great.<\/p>\n

“It just seems foolish to continue to put that much labor into something that the value of all of it has gone down,” stated company CEO Dale Gubbels. “We can actually work with the generators and the haulers to be able to rebate them for that cardboard.\u201d The company continues to process residential single stream materials.<\/p>\n

Waste Dive<\/em> reporter Cole Rosengren commented<\/a>, “China’s market disruption has forced the entire recycling industry to take a fresh look at materials management policies. While many are clamping down on contamination \u2014 and some have been forced to dispose of material \u2014 far fewer have switched collection methods yet. Nebraska’s open-ended state recycling policy made it possible for First Star to take a step that would be a lot more complicated elsewhere, but could be coming in the future.”<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article in\u00a0Waste<\/em> Dive, “Why Nebraska’s biggest MRF is done with commercial single-stream.”<\/a><\/h3>\n

Photo Credit:\u00a0By Raymond Bucko, SJ (Flickr: downtown_in_spring) [CC BY 2.0 <\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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