Waste Management Acquires Wisconsin C&D Recycling Company

Waste Management has expanded the recycling services it provides to construction and demolition contractors by acquiring City Wide Recycling LLC.

City Wide Recycling developed southeastern Wisconsin's largest and only automated processing facility for recyclable wastes collected at construction and demolition job sites, says John Kelly, Midwest group recycling director for Waste Management.

The plant, which began operations in late 2006, takes in mixed loads of waste from job sites, sorts the materials by type and prepares them for shipment to manufacturers that can use the reclaimed plaster, wood, masonry, plumbing, wiring, soil, rock, cardboard, plastics and other materials.

"Wisconsin contractors are committed to recycling, and Waste Management is committed to helping our state build green," Kelly says. "Promoting building site recycling is a natural extension of the services we provide to other transporters and our own customers."

City Wide founders John Hansen and Eric Konik will become consultants to Waste Management, helping the company grow its construction-sector recycling services around the country, Kelly says.

"We're working to increase recycling by continually developing new opportunities that we can offer our customers," Kelly says, pointing to initiatives such as Waste Management's recycling of mixed paper from residences and investments in electronics and fluorescent lamp recycling and new technologies that sort mixed recycling loads.
In 2008, Waste Management opened a $23 million plant in Germantown to sort mixed loads of recyclable containers, paper and cardboard collected by Waste Management and other transporters from homes and businesses in eastern Wisconsin. The new technology can boost recycling 20 percent or more by providing a more convenient way to separate recyclables from garbage at home and in the workplace.