Biz Aid, LLC Recycling

Plastic bags inside a vertical baler at Biz Aid LLC. A Recycle, MI sign is hanging on the wall next to the baler.

Making recycling simple and saving money on waste services is the goal that Biz Aid, LLC Recycling likes to keep in mind. Biz Aid, LLC was started in Coldwater, Michigan by Samantha Buterbaugh when she was 26 years old. At the time she didn’t even want to touch the cardboard, but now with endless possibilities,…

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Bay City Recycles

Bay City Recycles Logo reading "Take Pride at Curbside!"

Since the early 1950s, Bay City has offered curbside collection services for its residential and commercial residents. Seven decades later, Tim Botzau, Bay City’s Parks & Environmental Affairs Manager, is proud the city still offers curbside waste, recycling, and yard waste pickup. “Not a lot of cities still collect residential waste. We are one of…

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Iris Waste Diversion Specialists

Iris Waste Diversion Specialist Staff at the MRC Conference posed around the Iris exhibit hall booth

In 2004, after many years working in the resource recovery program management field, Sarah Archer decided to start her own company, Iris Waste Diversion Specialists. Iris Waste Diversion Specialists are resultants more than consultants. They implement programs, do waste assessments, plan events, and help programs improve their waste diversion or get established.  If there is…

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Mid Michigan Waste Authority

Mid Michigan Waste Authority logo

There are 34 municipalities that the Mid Michigan Waste Authority (MMWA) helps to coordinate trash, recycling, and yard waste services for. This can be a challenge when each municipality has completely different population sizes and needs for resources. However, the MMWA does everything they can to customize all options to achieve the needs for all…

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Haworth

Inside of Haworth recycling facility

  In 1980 Haworth opened and was quick to become an office furniture manufacturer that hoped to help sustain the planet. For years they recycled and called it good business sense. It wasn’t until 1993 that they opened a recycling center and processed 18 million pounds in the first two years. Haworth is a global industry…

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Missaukee Conservation District

Missaukee Conservation District logo

When the Missaukee Conservation District opened, they didn’t have any plans to get involved in recycling. Ten years ago, this changed when they received a $32,000 anonymous donation and obtained a solid waste management grant. Everything fell into place at the right time, and ever since then they have been in the recycling business.  …

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Clinton County

Volunteers posed around a "Scrap Metal Drop Off" Sign at Clinton County.

For the 77,000 residents in Clinton County, recycling has been important for many years. They are the recycling and waste management for the county, overseeing 2 drop off recycling centers and several waste collection events. The drop off centers are both self service centers, open 24 hours. The 2 big collection events that Clinton County…

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MSU Surplus Store & Recycling Center

Michigan State University Recycling logo

The MSU Surplus Store and Recycling Center (SSRC) has grown from a program that began by recycling a single commodity (office paper) in 1988 to the comprehensive waste management program they have today. The SSRC is comprised of MSU’s Surplus Store, the Recycling Center, and MSU Bikes. Since the completion of their new facility in…

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City of Lansing

City of Lansing volunteers putting recycling into a recycling cart

We’re excited to welcome The City Of Lansing, Capital Area Recycling and Trash (CART) as our newest Recycle, MI Partners! Lansing has a lot of exciting programs going on from curbside recycling, waste collection, and yard debris collection. Read below for some city highlights from our Partner Program Interview with Lori Welch from Capital Area…

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America Recycles Day

Picture of a dog wearing a recycling cape posed next to a Recycle, MI indoor/outdoor sign. Captioned: Celebrating America Recycles Day

Recycle, Michigan has so many fans – one of our favorites is our office puppy, Bambina aka Bean! She celebrated her first birthday on America Recycles Day (November 15) and had so much fun dressing up for it – as you can see! Happy Birthday Bean!

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