Recology
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| Private | |
| Industry | Integrated Resource Recovery |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Headquarters | 50 California Street, 24th Floor San Francisco, CA (415) 875-1000 or (800) 652-1275 San Francisco, California 94111 - 9796 |
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Area served
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United States |
| Revenue |
 USD $800 million (2015) |
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Number of employees
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approx 3,000 people (2015) |
| Website | Official Website |
Recology is an integrated resource recovery company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company collects and processes municipal solid waste, reclaiming useful materials that would have otherwise been buried in a landfill. The company also operates transfer stations, materials recovery facilities (MRFs), a number of landfills, and continues to spearhead renewable energy projects. Recology is the largest organics compost facility operator by volume in the United States.
Recology Inc. is the parent to approximately 40 subsidiaries, including Recology San Francisco, Recology Los Angeles, Recology CleanScapes (Seattle), and Recology Portland. These subsidiaries partner with approximately 127 communities in California, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada, helping over 700,000 residential and 100,000 commercial customers divert material from landfills.
Recology operates a number of facilities:
Recology is responsible for achieving the highest landfill diversion rate in the country through collaboration with the City of San Francisco, which created a Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance.
In April 2009, Recology, formerly known as Norcal Waste Systems, Inc., changed its name to reflect its culture and values, and the activities in which it was already heavily invested. The name Recology is a combination of the words "recycle" and "ecology".
Recology promotes recycling, composting, and other waste-reduction programs to minimize the amount of materials sent to landfills. The company has explored technologies to facilitate landfill diversion and developed programs to transform landfill-bound materials into their next best and highest use, including bulky item collection and donations, food scrap collection programs, and anaerobic digestion facilities.
The company has advanced the conversion of organics into biogas to generate electricity. Recology Hay Road uses gas captured from the landfill to power an engine that converts it to electricity, producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity continuously, which is enough to power up to 1,600 homes.
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