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Recycle America ® “ Sustainable Recycling Programs”

Recycle America ® “ Sustainable Recycling Programs”. Municipal Waste Management Association 2002 Fall Summit November 2002. RECYCLE AMERICA Commitment to Recycling. Recycling is a core business for Waste Management

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Recycle America ® “ Sustainable Recycling Programs”

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  1. Recycle America®“Sustainable Recycling Programs” Municipal Waste Management Association 2002 Fall Summit November 2002

  2. RECYCLE AMERICACommitment to Recycling • Recycling is a core business for Waste Management • Our Goal: Sustainability and Growth for Waste Management and its customers by: • Lowering cost of collection • Making processing more efficient • Managing commodity price risk • Develop and grow recycling niches

  3. RECYCLE AMERICA Comprehensive Recycling Services • 190 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) 91 stand alone facilities (including Canada) 99 integrated facilities (including Canada) • Secondary Processing 4 Electronics Processing Plants (eCyclingsm Services) 9 Glass Processing Plants • (Container Recycling Alliance)

  4. RECYCLE AMERICA Comprehensive Recycling Services • Secondary Processing (Continued) 1Optical Sorting Plastics Facility 3 Decasing and Destruction Operations • Commodity Marketing and Trading Services Market 4 Million Tons/year of Commodities • Plastics and Niche Commodities • WM Trading Group formed in June 2001

  5. RECYCLE AMERICALeading National Infrastructure

  6. RECYCLE AMERICASingle Stream Technology & Equipment • 5th or 6th generation now • Competition between vendors generating technical improvements • Good separation of fiber and non-fiber

  7. RECYCLE AMERICASingle Stream Hauling Objectives • Meet customer demand • Significantly reduce collection truck operating cost · Leverage the use of large body compaction vehicles · Enable opportunities for cart-based semi-automated /fully automated collection · Using older MSW trucks for recycle routes. · Standardization of the WMI collection fleet.

  8. RECYCLE AMERICASingle Stream MRF Objectives • Effective separation of fiber and non-fiber materials • Reduce labor costs per ton processed · Upgrade legacy fiber sort and bottle and can sort systems (circa 1993) · Increase in recovered materials

  9. Recycle America’s Twin Cities Single Stream System

  10. Empire WM Recycling FacilitySanta Rosa, California

  11. Overall increase in plastic production Decrease in residue/ residue expense Reduction in labor hours Reduction in workers comp. liability Marketing advantage due to #1 through #7 resin acceptance RECYCLE AMERICA The “No-Sort” Plastic Solution Raleigh, North Carolina

  12. RECYCLE AMERICA Prince George County MRF

  13. RECYCLE AMERICA The “No-Sort” Plastic Solution • Mixed Plastics Baled and Shipped to Raleigh, NC • Shipped by rail • Decrease in Labor Prince George County, Maryland

  14. Recycle America and Gallo Glass CompanyUnion City, CA Open House • Optical Sorting Technology • Supplying superior quality, three-mix glass for use in new glass bottles • Operations began in June 2001

  15. Recycle AmericaGlass Recycling • Optical sorting technology produces high-quality end-product • Union City, Madera, Vernon (Los Angeles), Calif., facilities all feature optical sorting technology • Governor’s Award recipient for Innovation in Glass Processing

  16. RECYCLE AMERICAeCyclingsm Services • 4 Regional Processing Centers Phoenix, AZ Houston, TX Minneapolis, MN Kernersville, NC • 1 Nonferrous Scrap Metal Facility (NJ) • 60+ Collection Depots • Programs in 20+ States

  17. RECYCLE AMERICAeCyclingsm Services • Nation’s Most Comprehensive Recycling Infrastructure & Logistics -Leverage use of WM facilities (landfills, transfer stations & MRFs) to collect and consolidate electronics -Electronics shipped to Recycle America and certified vendors

  18. RECYCLE AMERICACommercial Electronics Streams • Computer equipment • Circuit boards • Consumer electronics • Cables, wires,controls, switches, connectors • Ferrous and non-ferrous metals • Specialty products

  19. RECYCLE AMERICAManaging Commodity Price Exposure • Waste Management-Recycle America markets over 4 million tons per year of paper • 60 percent of tons are bulk grades of OCC and ONP • 75 percent of volumes are under long-term contracts with mills, including minimum floor pricing provisions • WM trading group formed in June 2001 as natural extension of current physical paper recycling business • WM managing commodity price exposure for customers and company

  20. RECYCLE AMERICA Kevin McCarthy, Director of Electronics Recycling Recycle America Asset Recovery Group 2615 Davis Street San Leandro, CA 94577 510-563-4214 510-563-4210 (fax) 510-501-7070 (cell) Toll free: 866-588-0572 kmccarthy1@wm.com www.wm.com/recycling

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