It鈥檚 America Recycles Day and Rumpke Waste & Recycling Dayton is celebrating by unveiling a $1 million renovation at one of the country鈥檚 only mixed glass recycling centers. Officials, guests and partners gathered at Rumpke Recycling Dayton today to learn more about Rumpke鈥檚 glass processing facility. 鈥淎s the region鈥檚 recycling leader, Rumpke Waste & Recycling is always actively researching new opportunities to keep our landfills small and recycling efforts growing,鈥� said Mike Bramkamp, regional vice president at Rumpke. 聽鈥淲e are honored to have the City of Dayton and the Ohio EPA鈥檚 support in this effort, both assisted by providing a collaborative $50,000 grant,鈥� added Bramkamp.
Annually Rumpke Recycling鈥檚 Dayton Glass Facility processes 60,000 tons of broken glass. Glass is processed into raw materials for fiberglass insulation and glass container manufacturing. 鈥淭he glass we process at this site is collected from curbside and commercial recycling customers throughout Rumpke鈥檚 service regions in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Glass makes up 15-20 percent of the recycling that is collected. By creating this system Rumpke has developed the infrastructure to reduce the amount of trash going to the landfill while creating jobs and raw materials needed by our manufacturers,鈥� said Steve Sargent, Rumpke鈥檚 director of recycling.
Facility renovations including extended conveyors, an enhanced dust collection system and technology to remove fine material such as paper labels, dust, dirt and other organic material from the glass, are designed to add consistency to the process and ensure a cleaner end product for manufacturers. 聽Rumpke Recycling Dayton Glass Processing also receives intellectual and research support from the University of Dayton. During the past couple of years students have joined Rumpke professionals to assess the process and material quality as well as identify improvements.
Rumpke Waste & Recycling, Inc. has been committed to keeping neighborhoods and businesses clean and green since 1932 by providing environmentally friendly waste disposal solutions. 聽Headquartered near Cincinnati, Rumpke is one of the nation鈥檚 largest privately owned residential and commercial waste and recycling firms, providing service to areas of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia. Rumpke divisions include Rumpke Recycling, The William-Thomas Group and Rumpke Hydraulics. 聽For more information, visit rumpke.com.
Rumpke鈥檚 founders began pulling rags, glass and metals out of the trash for reuse and recycling in the 1930s. Today Rumpke is widely recognized as Ohio鈥檚 recycling leader operating 10 recycling facilities company. Rumpke opened the glass processing facility in 2004. At the time, markets for the broken glass resulting (from mixed recycling collection and sorting) were weak or non-existent. Rumpke lead the glass recycling effort finding a way to convert broken glass into valuable raw materials.
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