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WASTEC would like to welcome new member Inthinc Technology Solutions to the association. For more information on them, please visit them at www.inthinc.com.

Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks Inc. on Tuesday, July 13, announced that orders for Class 8 trucks equipped with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2010-certified Volvo Group engines have surpassed the 10,000 mark. Equipped with selective catalytic reduction technology, these vehicles are designed to deliver near-zero emissions and fuel economy improvements of up to 5 percent.

“Passing the 10,000 mark in Class 8 orders is a testament to how well we’ve executed our EPA 2010 project,” says Ron Huibers, VTNA senior vice president of sales and marketing. “The reports we’re getting from customers, particularly when it comes to performance, reliability and fuel efficiency, have been extremely positive.”

Mack MP engines feature the Mack ClearTech selective catalytic reduction system. “We had the trucks in customer hands early and often for testing, and we were ready to go soon enough to start production last fall,” says Kevin Flaherty, Mack senior vice president of sales and marketing.

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As the leaves turn brown this fall, Cincinnati residents will have incentives to turn green when the City furthers its commitment to environmental quality and unveils an enhanced recycling program, slated to begin this October. The City officially announced today that it is partnering with waste hauler Rumpke Recycling, recycling cart manufacturer Cascade Engineering, and rewards program RecycleBank to incent the recycling process. Following a City Council vote in May, Cincinnati is moving forward with a new program that gives residents larger carts and rewards for recycling. Cincinnati is the largest Midwest city to deploy RecycleBank citywide; other Midwest areas with RecycleBank include suburbs of Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Omaha, Sioux Falls, and a pilot program in three wards of Chicago.

“The City is excited to provide this innovative new service to citizens,” Mayor Mark L. Mallory said. “People are looking for creative new ways to become more ‘green’ in their everyday lives. The larger recycling carts are going to allow people to recycle much more than they do now, and the great part is that they will be rewarded for how much they recycle.”

RecycleBank is a rewards program that motivates people to take greener actions, like household recycling, by rewarding them with points that are redeemable for rewards from local and national retailers, restaurants, pharmacies, grocers, and more. Similar to frequent flier programs, the more a community recycles, the more RecycleBank Points participating households earn. Single- or multi-family residences with Cincinnati curbside trash service are eligible to participate in the program free of charge.

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Municipal recycling programs and the processing plants that serve them can both benefit from a larger flow of material—but their interests may diverge when deciding what belongs within that incoming stream.

At a session titled “Meeting Municipal Expectations” at the 2010 Paper Recycling Conference, two material recovery facility (MRF) plant operators and a municipal recycling program supervisor shared their experiences in seeking cooperation on collection program design.

Daniel Lantz of Metro Waste Paper Recovery, Toronto, oversees operations at several MRFs that process materials collected in large Canadian cities. He told attendees that his company has been put in the position of trying to separate and sort an increasingly wide range of materials in MRFs not designed or equipped to handle some of them. “Programs in Ontario are handling a minimum of 15 materials; most programs in Ontario are handling well over 20 materials, including materials you don’t even want to think about handling—but we handle them anyhow,” he stated.

Lantz expressed skepticism about the rush to single-stream collection and noted its effects on material quality. “There are tremendous difficulties on the fiber side,” he remarked. “There’s no such thing as a true No. 8 news grade anymore. I’m not telling anyone anything they don’t already know.”

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WASTEC would like to welcome new member Transportation Safety Technologies to the association. For more information on them, please visit them at www.tst-corp.com.

We would like to welcome new member Jake Connor and Crew into the association. For more information  on them visit www.jackeconnorandcrew.com.