NERC webinar on glass recycling attracts large audience

The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), Brattleboro, Vermont, has announced that its May 16, 2018, webinar, Finding Opportunity in MRF Glass, attracted more than 420 registrants from 42 states, Puerto Rico and five Canadian provinces.

The webinar began with Eileen Berenyi, principal of Governmental Advisory Associates Inc. providing an overview of research about diverted glass from materials recovery facilities (MRFs). Ellen Martin, vice president of impact and reporting at the Closed Loop Fund (CLF), an investment fund part of New York-based Closed Loop Partners, followed with a presentation about CLF’s MRF Glass Study, its low-interest loan program for upgrading MRFs’ sorting and processing equipment and the tool it has developed to assist towns in calculating the cost/savings of recycling glass.

Herb Northrop, chief operating officer of Aero Aggregates, Eddystone, Pennsylvania, talked about his perspective on the opportunities of recycling MRF glass, as well as operational, financial and sustainable solutions of today and the near future. 

Brooke Nash, branch chief of Waste Reduction Programs at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP) discussed the strategies that the state is exploring and implementing to find and develop new recycled glass end markets

Following are links to the webinar recording and presentations:

Finding Opportunity in MRF Glass Webinar Recording

Eileen Berenyi, GAA Presentation

Ellen Martin, CLF Presentation

Herb Northrop, Aero Aggregates Presentation

Brooke Nash, MassDEP Presentation

For more information about the webinar or glass recycling in the Northeast, contact Mary Ann Remolador, NERC’s assistant director, at maryann@nerc.org.