Auction Package includes:

Marathon 7230 Baler

6 months parts and labor in SC (parts only in other states)

Bundle of Baling Wire

Clean out tool

Auction Package includes:

Deluxe accommodations for two for 3 days/2nights

Breakfast and dinner for two daily

One round of golf for two ($195 premium/person applies to play No. 2)

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Unilever reached a new industry-leading achievement of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill across more than 600 sites, in 70 countries, including factories, warehouses, distribution centres and offices. Having identified the different non-hazardous waste streams in its operations Unilever has now found alternative routes for the waste from these sites.

In January 2015 Unilever announced that over 240 factories had achieved zero waste to landfill status - by replicating this zero waste model in other parts of the business, nearly 400 additional sites have now eliminated waste to landfill. This has been achieved by continuing with the four 'R' approach of reducing, reusing, recovering or recycling, proving that waste can be seen as a resource with many alternative uses - from converting factory waste to building materials, to composting food waste from staff cafeterias.  Here more about Unilever's Zero Waste successes and challenges from Julie Zaniewski, Unilever Packaging Sustainability Manager at the CRA Annual Conference!

Communities looking to take their curbside recycling programs to the next level of recovery and convenience should stand up and take notice. The Recycling Partnership has just released its latest Request for Proposals (RFP), which is geared specifically to help counties, municipalities, tribes and solid waste authorities with 4,000 or more households upgrade to cart-based collection.

Potential applicants may email any questions to the Partnership's Project Director, Karen Bandhauer by March 31, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Final proposals must be received electronically by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on April 15, 2016.

Additional details are available in the RFP and Proposal Application Form

Mecklenburg County, located in the State of North Carolina, is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to perform Electronic Recycling Services for its Solid Waste Division, of the Land Use and Environmental Services Agency. We invite you to respond to this RFP based on your organization's current capability to perform these services and maintain the described level of service throughout the contract period.  Registration as a Mecklenburg County vendor is required to submit a response. To register as a vendor, click here.  All RFPs must be received no later than 2:00 PM (EST) on March 11, 2016.

The recycling of post-consumer rigid plastics surged 276 million pounds, or 27 percent, in 2014 to reach a new high of over 1.28 billion pounds for the year, according to a report authored by Moore Recycling Associates Inc. The 2014 National Postconsumer Non-Bottle Rigid Plastic Recycling Report also indicated that the reported volume of recycled rigid plastics-tracked separately from bottles or film-is now four times greater than the volume reported in just 2007.

A separate report found a minimum of 1.17 billion pounds of postconsumer plastic film was recycled in 2014, an increase of over 29 million pounds, or 3 percent, from the prior year. The 2014 National Postconsumer Plastic Bag and Film Recycling Report, also authored by Moore Recycling, marks the tenth consecutive year of the report, and a 79 percent increase in plastic film recycling since 2005. Based on data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the recycling rate for film has grown from 6.6 percent to 17 percent of production during the same period.

Eastern Carolina Vocational Center Inc. (ECVC), a nonprofit commercial electronics recycler based in Greenville, NC, has announced it has received R2/RIOS (Responsible Recycling Practices/Recycling Industry Operating Standard) certification. As part of the CyclePoint from SourceAmerica national network of electronics recycling providers created in part to employ people with disabilities, ECVC says 75 percent of its direct workforce consists of employees with significant disabilities.

At ECVC's e-scrap demanufacturing facility, located next to its material recovery facility (MRF), workers handle a variety of commercial e-scrap, including computers, servers, monitors, keyboards, mice, copiers, scanners, fax machines, TVs, A/V and communication equipment, as well as point of sale machines. The company also offers hard drive data destruction (to the U.S. Department of Defense specification with destruction certifications available) and pickup services for businesses.