Municipal Workshop- Shifts in the Markets and Where Your Materials Go: Mike Florio form Waste Management discusses how commodity change, contamination and impact on contracts.

1. Waste Management Recycle America
Michael Florio

2. Waste Management Recycle America
• Operated and Maintained Material Recovery Facilities
(MRF’S) 133
• Single Stream Facilities 33
• Plastics Processing Plants: 1
• Electronic Scrap Recycling Plants: 7
• Recovered Products Marketed by WMRA Annually:
9.5 million tons

3. Are the availability of given
commodities (like paper) shifting, i.e.
increasing or decreasing?

4. • Industry is moving to Zero Waste.
• Packaging Industry Reengineering to Reduce
package Size.
• North American Newsprint Industry Shrinking
• Print Industry is Consolidating
• The investment to capture additional recyclables is
increasing
Commodity Change

5. How much contamination of the
streams do they see and does it matter
based on where the commodities are
being sent?

6. Contamination
• Prohibitive vs. Out throw
• Mill Cleaning Systems
• Domestic vs. Export

7. Contamination

8. Are there mills in the US or does
everything go overseas?

9. Export vs. Domestic
• Waste Management handles over 9 million tons of
recyclables per year
• •Nationally, WM exports 4M tons per year, and ships 5.5M tons
per year to domestic mills
• •Major export mills are: Nine Dragons, Lee and Man Paper,
Guangzhou, Chenming Paper Group, Donnguan
• •Major domestic mills are: Marcal, Cascades, International
Paper, Rock Tenn, IFP, GP, Kruger

10. How will the shifts in commodities
impact contracts?

11. Contract impact from commodities
• Make-up of the Inbound Streams
• Changing Demand for the Materials in the
Stream

12. What is the path of most of the
materials after they leave the
processors?

13. The Path

14. Think Green.
Think Waste Management