NERC in the News
2023
August
Elevating equity. Taking place in early April, The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) Spring 2023 Conference: Building a Diverse Workforce for Sustainable Materials Management featured a variety of speakers giving advice on how to build – and keep – a diverse workforce.
NERC’s Glass Committee releases report on postconsumer glass used as ADC.
Data collection for this report began in February this year, with NERC’s Assistant Director & Event Organizer Mary Ann Remolador leading the outreach, interpretation and drafting efforts. “One of the things we became acutely aware of is that states across the board may or may not be monitoring the use of glass for ADC, and we were not aware of that before doing this,” Remolador says. “In many cases, states are not requiring the MRFs to report where they are sending the glass that comes out of their facility."NERC’s Glass Committee releases report on postconsumer glass used as ADC. The Northeast Recycling Council’s (NERC) Glass Committee has released a report titled “Recycled Glass Used as Alternative Daily Cover in the Northeast US & Quebec.” The report identifies a shortage of beneficiation facilities in the region to clean and process glass, making it necessary for material recovery facilities (MRFs) to send their separated postconsumer glass to landfills for use as ADC.
New England state imposes food scraps disposal ban. The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) noted that affected entities are likely to include supermarkets; food manufacturers, processors and distributors; hotels and resorts; hospitals, colleges and universities; and prisons.
News from California, Schnitzer Steel and more. The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) hired Sophie Leone and Mariane Medeiros and closed its physical offices in Vermont, transitioning to a fully remote operation.
