Marine Plastics Washed Ashore; An Opportunity?
By John Hanscom, John T. Hanscom Consulting On a recent visit to Roatan, Honduras, I was staying at a seaside resort. One evening I took a walk along the shore…
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NCRA is an association of recycling businesses, community groups, municipalities, and individuals committed to promoting, expanding, and institutionalizing recycling. Founded in 1978, NCRA is a nonprofit trade organization for recyclers with around 200 members, the majority of whom are located in Northern California. Boat rockers, we are active locally, regionally, state-wide and nationally depending on what needs to be done.
NCRA promotes waste reduction, reuse, salvaging, recycling, and composting as vital tools for resource and energy conservation, and as cost-effective, environmentally sound methods of disposing of discarded materials.
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Dear NYT Editors: When the CEO of Waste Management, one of the largest haulers and landfill operators in the world, serves as the sole industry representative consulted about the future… Dear Editor: The Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA) appreciates that Fortune’s September 3 article “The American recycling business is a mess: Can Big Waste fix it?” highlighted the challenges posed… By Arthur R. Boone, Center for Recycling Research, Berkeley, 10/8/15 Dear Editors: In the years prior to 1970, the United States spent billions of dollars developing a waste removal system… By Daniel Knapp, CEO of Urban Ore, Inc., a Materials Recovery Facility now celebrating its 35th year in Berkeley, California, To the Editor: I’ve been a full-time operator of a…
NCRA Response to NYT’s Op-Ed
NCRA Response To Fortune Magazine
Boone: Sorry Mr. Tierney
Knapp: Trashy Opinions Again From John Tierney