The recycling division of Mahoning County in northeastern Ohio has reported to its state Environmental Protection Agency that the volume of materials recycled in the county in 2014 grew relative to 2013.
According to a report from the Youngstown Vindicator, the amount of industrially generated material recycled in Mahoning County (with Youngstown as its largest city) rose by 17.4 percent in 2014.
The industrial scrap recycling volume rose from 121,900 tons in 2013 to 143,200 tons in 2014. Ferrous scrap represented the largest portion of that total in 2014 at 130,800 tons, or 91.3 percent.
The county figures, presented by recycling division director Lou Vega, place residential and commercial tons into a combined category.
The volume of materials recycled in that combined residential and commercial category “increased from 78,876 tons in 2013 to 83,871 tons in 2014, for the highest total since 2010 in that category,” according to the Vindicator. The 2014 volume increase was 6.3 percent.
Vega pointed to the county’s recycling education efforts and increases in cardboard and wood recycling as having helped boost the volume figure in 2014.
Latest from Recycling Today
- AISI, Aluminum Association cite USMCA triangular trading concerns
- Nucor names new president
- DOE rare earths funding is open to recyclers
- Design for Recycling Resolution introduced
- PetStar PET recycling plant expands
- Iron Bull addresses scrap handling needs with custom hoppers
- REgroup, CP Group to build advanced MRF in Nova Scotia
- Oregon county expands options for hard-to-recycling items
