A Better Solution for Your Recycling Program

What is Single-Stream Recycling: A technology that allows you to place all recyclables, such as fiber (newspaper, office paper, cardboard) and non-fiber containers (glass, tin, aluminum, plastic) in a single container for collection, processing and marketing.

What Makes Single-Stream Recycling Possible: Waste Management of Eastern NY (WM) is partnering with our Waste Management Recycle America (WMRA) facility in Syracuse, NY. Customers simply place all accepted recyclable material in one container and WM collects and transports it to our state-of-the-art WMRA facility.

Recent improvements in automated sorting and screening technologies have made it possible to cleanly separate various recyclable material from a single source. Ongoing improvements in this technology, along with rising fuel costs, have improved the economic viability of single-stream recycling programs.

New Challenges Require New Solutions: People are looking for new, more effective ways to extend landfill life, promote environmental sustainability, fight climate change and lower overall costs through increased recycling.

Of all the programs currently offered, none comes close to matching the ease, acceptance and cost-effectiveness of single-stream recycling.

Benefits of Single-Stream Recycling:

• Single cart or dumpster - saves space and reduces previous multiple container needs
• Increased participation - ease of program use encourages participation
• Fewer trucks on roads - results in less traffic and wearand-tear to pavement, reduction in emissions and lower fuel costs
• No sorting - lower your labor time and cost

A WM representative will assist you in developing and implementing single-stream recycling>