Casella Waste Systems recognizes sustainability leaders

Eight prospects honored throughout seven areas of excellence

RUTLAND, VT – (February 16, 2021) Casella Waste Techniques, Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST) is happy to announce that eight of its prospects have been not too long ago honored for his or her management in sustainability on the inaugural Casella Sustainability Management Award Ceremony.

The purchasers have been honored at a digital ceremony for excellence in useful resource sustainability throughout seven classes, together with: partnership, innovation, recycling, organics restoration, donations and reuse, closed loop economic system, and schooling.

“It provides us a way of nice satisfaction to honor these eight prospects for his or her management and excellent work in advancing sustainability,” stated John W. Casella, Chairman and CEO. “We hope that by bringing consideration to their efforts, others can be impressed by their ardour, dedication, and success.”

Almost 30 prospects, together with municipalities, faculties and universities, industrial producers, meals and beverage producers, and others have been nominated for his or her efforts. Winners have been chosen by a panel of Casella executives and sustainability specialists, together with True Zero Waste Advisors, who evaluated every nominee on a number of standards.

“We’ve spent greater than 45 years working in direction of a extra sustainable future, and as we attempt to assist our prospects attain their sustainability targets it’s an honor to acknowledge their collective efforts. The purchasers and communities we now have the privilege of serving are main the best way and galvanizing others to dwell and work extra sustainability and that continues to be probably the most rewarding a part of our work,” Casella stated.

2020 Casella Sustainable Management Award Winners

PARTNER OF THE YEAR: Acknowledges the Casella buyer who’s advancing useful resource sustainability by forging nice partnerships and embodying the spirit of Casella’s core worth dedication to teamwork.

Tompkins County, New York has been a Casella associate because the early 1990’s and at the moment achieves a formidable 60 % recycling fee. Impactful packages have included: pay-as-you-throw tagging, county-wide curbside recycling, drop-off for hard-to-recycle gadgets, early adoption of meals waste providers, and numerous progressive and efficient teaching programs. All of those efforts have helped to scale back contamination and put Tompkins County in glorious place to attain its aim of 85 % recycling by 2030.

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR: Acknowledges the Casella buyer who’s advancing useful resource sustainability by embracing progressive options.

UMass Lowell is at all times able to attempt one thing new to advance sustainability and has earned a status amongst its peer establishments as an innovator. Organics have been a excessive precedence on their campus and has collaborated with Casella to determine meals waste assortment throughout 13 areas. When Casella approached UMass Lowell in regards to the potential for onsite meals waste processing from InSinkErator Grind2Energy, they put in not just one machine, however two turning into the second college within the nation to undertake the know-how. Different improvements have included: a closed loop bagged compost program, compost for campus gardens, and an early-stage program for recycling plastic from analysis labs.

RECYCLING CHAMPION: Acknowledges the Casella buyer who has carried out an formidable and profitable recycling program.

BD Pharmaceutical Techniques is a sustainability chief in many various methods and most particularly in its dedication to recycling glass, which has been its largest waste stream and is historically a really exhausting commodity to recycle. Over the course of the final seven years, BD has maintained a recycling fee over 93 %, which is a mirrored image of its tradition and dedication to sustainable practices at each stage.

ORGANICS RECOVERY CHAMPION: Acknowledges the Casella buyer who has carried out a profitable restoration program for meals, drinks, and different natural supplies.

DuPont Diet USA generates round 50 million kilos yearly of a novel natural byproduct known as Algefiber. As a result of the fabric is wealthy in natural matter, magnesium, and lime worth, it’s nice for bettering soil and enhancing crop yields. DuPont’s dedication to sustainability by way of innovation, security and neighborhood engagement is inspirational and its partnership with Casella has helped native farmers and others discover a greater and higher use for 25,000 tons of fabric that was as soon as destined for landfill.

DONATIONS AND REUSE CHAMPION: Acknowledges the Casella buyer who has carried out a profitable reuse or donation program.

Goodwill Northern New England has been a long-standing associate to Casella on many ranges. Some of the important collaborations between the 2 organizations has been establishing a Inexperienced Transfer Out reuse program to seize gadgets from school campuses when college students transfer out on the finish of every college yr. Goodwill Northern New England has been an integral associate, making this nice program a hit by offering logistics, transportation, tools, and an outlet for recovering donated supplies. Since inception in 2015, Inexperienced Transfer Outs have recovered over 100 tons of donated gadgets from college students.

CLOSED LOOP ECONOMY CHAMPION: Acknowledges the Casella buyer who purchases or creates strong markets for recycled content material supplies, together with recycled commodities, organics merchandise, and extra.

Learn Customized Soils is the main supplier of customized planting soils in New England. They’re the highest buyer for Casella’s Earthlife™ merchandise. Casella makes Earthlife™ merchandise from recycled organics, and Learn Customized Soils goes on to make them into specialised soil blends for the whole lot from golf programs to inexperienced roofs to gardens. Working carefully collectively to determine product and repair finest practices, the groups at Casella and Learn Customized Soils are constructing more healthy soils and landscapes whereas supporting extra sustainable ecosystems and communities.

EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR (Two Recipients): Acknowledges the Casella prospects who implement academic campaigns to have interaction their communities, prospects, staff, and/or college students in good recycling and meals waste packages.

Bentley College has created a mannequin that at the moment shapes the best way Casella interacts with all of its college prospects. With its Waste Minimization Process Pressure, Bentley convenes stakeholders month-to-month to debate and advance waste minimization packages, making certain an ongoing focus and powerful campus-wide schooling and outreach. One in every of this group’s most important and visual successes has been the campus’ formidable inexperienced transfer out program, an enormous operational endeavor requiring seamless logistics, schooling, and coordination over the course of a number of days on the finish of every semester.

Fairfax, Vermont has targeted on fashionable outreach and schooling, enabled by the launch of an progressive waste and recycling app – powered by Recollect – to provide residents instant entry to their assortment schedule and a searchable software to advance recycling and compost schooling. As of December, 409 individuals had put in the app and over 5,600 gadgets had been searched throughout 5,000 households. The City Supervisor has supported this success by way of savvy use of social media and by bringing Casella in to talk with residents to enrich these efforts.