C&D News

GRANT HELPS C&D RECYCLER EXPAND

A $500,000 grant from the state of New York has helped Taylor Recycling Facility LLC open up a new $3 million construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing plant in Montgomery, N.Y.

The grant, from the state’s Environmental Investment Program for Recycling, has helped Taylor Recycling purchase sorting and processing equipment. With the addition of the automated equipment, the company will go from having hand sorters sift through some 30,000 tons of debris per year to being able to sort twice that amount of material mechanically.

The company is able to prepare and market reclaimed gypsum, cardboard, metals, wood-based mulch, topsoil and several secondary aggregate products.

Screening equipment owned by Taylor Recycling and made by Erin Systems Inc., Portland, Maine, has been used for the past several months at the Fresh Kills landfill to help investigators search through debris resulting from the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

The company’s experience working on the project prompted it to make a $250,000 donation toward a victims’ memorial to be built in Montgomery, N.Y.

INDOOR C&D FACILITY OPENS THIS MONTH

ABC Disposal Service Inc. will open up a $7.5 million facility in New Bedford, Mass., in May that is permitted to handle up to 500 tons per day of C&D waste and recyclable material.

"Our plant will help ease the landfill capacity shortage, benefit the environment and bring us closer to meeting state recycling goals," says Michael A. Camara, a co-owner of the new facility.

According to Camara, the New Bedford plant’s technology will be more highly automated than many other competinig facilities.

The facility is fully enclosed and "has all the amenities of an office building, including heat and air conditioning, a locker room with showers and a cafeteria for employees," he notes.