Market Area Manager, Austin McKnight, welcomed the Boston Globe Assistant Metro Editor, Josh Miller, to the Casella Charlestown Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) for a tour and answer to the question - "we put stuff into our single-stream recycling bins, and they're tipped into trucks that go to a Casella facility in Charlestown. Then . . . what?"
Read more about how the MRF in Charlestown is working with municipalities to clean up the recycling stream and give resources new life.
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., headquartered in Rutland, Vermont, is one of the largest recyclers and most experienced fully integrated resource management companies in the Eastern United States. Founded in 1975 as a single truck collection service, Casella has grown its operations to provide solid waste collection and disposal, transfer, recycling, and organics services to more than one million residential, commercial, municipal, institutional, and industrial customers and provides professional resource management services to over 10,000 customer locations in more than 40 states.
