Sustainable Solutions
Food Manufacturer Case Study
A Fortune 100 food manufacturer approached Quincy Recycle for solutions to their waste stream problems. The company has asked to remain anonymous and we are respecting their request.
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Skittles & Animal Feed – More to the Story
From our Quincy Farm Products subsidiary: A recent “off-beat” story hit the news: hundreds of thousands of Skittles candies were found covering a Wisconsin highway, which were destined for farms as a feed supplement for cattle. The story was often covered either as humor or as alarmist concern over candies being used in cattle feed.…
Read MoreCompetition and Collaboration
Competition is good. Sometimes, though, collaboration is better. If you’re in the recycling industry, you’ve no doubt worked with other recyclers. It’s fairly common given shared vendors and specialization in materials. This process usually begins with a problem – a recycler has a manufacturer or other vendor with materials they’re having difficulty handling. That’s when…
Read MoreTight Market For Plastic Recyclers
Plastic recyclers like Quincy Recycle face a tough plastics market. For the past year we’ve seen a significant drop in the price of recycled plastic. Why? The price of oil has dropped by half over the past year The global economic slowdown is lowering export demand Load contamination is driving down the price we get on…
Read MoreEfficient and Scalable B2B Recycling in New Haven, IN
Quincy Recycle’s New Haven, Indiana plant is located just miles outside of the expanding Fort Wayne metro area. From here, we service manufacturers throughout the nation, with a focus on those within a 200 mile radius of greater Fort Wayne. Michael Malloy — general manager of the New Haven facility – leads a motivated team…
Read MoreThink Waste
Henry Ford hated waste. Whether it was wasted time, energy, activity, or materials, Ford wanted to eliminate waste from his organization. He also expected his employees to be on the lookout for waste in all its forms. Wherever there was excess material wasted, Ford wanted to identify it, and either eliminate the waste or find…
Read MoreQ2 Tons Recycled
Quincy Recycle’s five B2B recycling facilities shipped over 70,000 tons of paper to mills and plants in the second quarter of 2015, and over 20 million pounds of plastic to be reused by manufacturers in new products. There are three significant benefits in this: most of the paper and plastic came from manufacturers’ scrap – material that they…
Read MoreMeasure, Maximize, Mobilize
Our National Accounts team makes a valuable contribution to our multi-location, multi-commodity clients by providing them with customized site-specific solutions to enterprise-wide sustainability initiatives, centralized billing and reporting, and a range of other tools, including our iMpact Program. Quincy Recycle’s iMpact Program begins by listening to and understanding our client’s recycling and sustainability goals. Keeping…
Read MoreSeeing the Forest AND the Trees
Are you responsible for recycling and sustainability at a multi-location, multi-commodity manufacturer? Then you’re aware that finding a recycling partner that can scale up to your needs can be a challenge. Quincy Recycle has a dedicated National Accounts team to work with vendors with multiple locations to address those challenges. How do we do that?…
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