City Wide Recycling developed southeastern Wisconsin’s automated processing facility for recyclable wastes collected at construction and demolition job sites.
The plant at 10700 Wisconsin Brown Deer Road in Milwaukee receives mixed loads of waste from job sites, sorting the materials by type and preparing them for shipment to manufacturers that can use the reclaimed plaster, wood, masonry, plumbing, wiring, soil, rock, cardboard, plastics and other materials. It began operating in October 2006.
John Kelly, Midwest group recycling director for Waste Management, said: “Wisconsin contractors are committed to recycling, and Waste Management is committed to helping our state build green. Promoting building site recycling is a natural extension of the services we provide to other transporters and our own customers. We’re working to increase recycling by continually developing new opportunities that we can offer our customers.”
Construction and demolition work produces about 1.4 million tons of debris annually, nearly 29% of the total waste produced statewide, according to a 2006 report by the Wisconsin Governor’s task force on waste materials recovery and disposal.
