Ace has invested millions of dollars and employs many full time workers to have the capability of recycling construction debris. And with all of that investment and effort we are able to do great things, yet one of the things we have been unable to do properly is tell our story.
Why?
It's because there is no federal, state, local or private sector means to verify a company's recycling claims. A fact. So we end up competing agains landfills, a man and a truck, and other far less capable recycling operations that make wild and unverifiable claims about how much recycling they were able to achieve. Up to this point, the market perversely rewards this behavior because these folks give the market what it wants: high recycling rates at low cost (no overhead).
Facilities like ours have been clamoring for years now for somebody to step up and setup a system of independent verification. These cries for change have fallen on deaf ears. Until now.
The Construction Materials Recycling Association recently announced it is creating a program called Certification of Real Rates (CORR) to solve the problem. We of course hope its implemented and produces the kinds of results necessary to reward actual recycling from the normal business as usual.
Want to read more? Check out: http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/arcshow.html?id=11051600301
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