ReCommunity Opens New MRF in New York State

ReCommunity, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has opened its Beacon, N.Y., material recovery facility (MRF). The company invested roughly $7.5 million in the 52,000-square-foot MRF, which will recover plastics, old newspaper, most grades of paper, old corrugated containers, tin and aluminum cans and glass containers from single-stream residential recyclables.

ReCommunity also has partnered with Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress Fellows Program to launch an education program designed to increase recycling in the Greater Hudson Valley. Members of Pattern for Progress are developing a pilot program at the Beacon City School District to educate students about recycling.

The Beacon MRF will service municipalities throughout the Northeast, including the greater Hudson Valley counties of Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Orange and Putnam in New York, and parts of southwest Connecticut.

“ReCommunity is committed to what we call ‘Leading the Recovery Revolution,’ and we are happy to bring our services, along with new green jobs, to the Greater Hudson Valley,” says Jim Bohlig, ReCommunity CEO. “ReCommunity is a company with a purpose. We exist to extract as much as value as we can from recyclable materials and convert them to ‘recovered resources’ that replace the use of virgin natural resources.”

Jonathan Drapkin, president and CEO of Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, says, “Pattern for Progress believes in regional solutions to issues such as recycling, which clearly requires strategies that cross municipal borders. We applaud ReCommunity for building a regional recycling facility that will create jobs in the Hudson Valley, protect the environment and steer materials away from landfills for decades to come.”

Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress is a nonprofit policy, planning, advocacy and research organization whose mission is to promote regional, balanced and sustainable solutions that enhance the growth and vitality of the Hudson Valley.