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Brevard County ranks at No. 10 out of 67 counties for highest percentage of recycling of solid waste at 54 percent
Single Stream Recyclers co-owner John Hansen pitches in on the line to separate discarded household items into materials that are sold to manufacturers of future products.
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nough fossil fuel for numerous tractor-trailer trucks to make it to the moon and back. That’s just one of the environmental savings a new recycling plant will make just in time for Earth Day April 22. Waste Management used to haul recyclables from each house it serves in Brevard County to a transfer station in West Melbourne, load them onto tractor-trailer trucks and send them
all the way down south to a plant in Broward County’s Pembroke Pines. “A state-of-the-art recycling facility in Brevard County is very exciting,” Waste Management spokesperson Amy Boyson said of Single Stream Recyclers, built by two former Wisconsin trash processing company owners bought out by Waste Management who now bring muchneeded centers online. “This makes it simple for the customer; everything goes into the same cart. Then the processing facility
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converts mixed residential recyclables into individual commodities using technology and advanced equipment to include screens, air systems, magnets, eddy currents, optical scanners and balers.” John Hansen owns the plant with high school buddy Eric Konik. Hansen further detailed the benefits.
RECYCLING Continued on page 10
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