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Sustainability & Waste Reduction Solutions

Our greatest sustainability impact comes through the solutions we provide in support of our customers’ goals.

Solutions To Support Your Sustainability Goals

Turnkey Recycling
Renewable Energy
Circular Supply Chain
Waste Prevention
Zero Waste Advising
Training & Engagement

For Your Home

Bring sustainability home with innovative solutions to help you waste less and recycle more.

With convenience and reliability, we make doing the right thing a little easier. Whether you are on the fast track to zero waste or just starting to lighten your footprint, we are here to help.

Single Stream Recycling – Place all of your basic recyclables in one bin with our clear and convenient single stream recycling service.
Food Waste Services – Close the loop on your household food scraps with our curbside, drop-off, or in-home service options.
Mattress Recycling – By recycling your mattress with Casella, materials such as wood, metal, foam are given a new life.
Dumpster Rental – Schedule a dumpster for large projects and know your waste is headed to secure processing and disposal sites.

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For Your Business

Casella is here to help you achieve your recycling and sustainability goals.

With convenient and reliable solutions, we make recycling work for your business. See why thousands of customers trust Casella to manage their sustainable waste and recycling needs.

Single Stream Recycling – Make recycling work for your organization with Casella’s clear and convenient single stream recycling service.
Organics Recycling – Recover your organization’s food scraps or food processing residuals with our food waste collection services or innovative on-site solutions.
Zero Waste Advising: Our advisory services – including waste audits, tailored plans, and more – will help you achieve your goals.
Specialty Recycling – If your business produces unique or hard-to-recycle waste streams, our experienced team can help you explore and select solutions.

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Materials We Recycle

With coordination, many common waste materials can be recycled. This can reduce the need to harvest and extract new resources. By conserving and extending the useful life of materials such as paper, plastic, metal, and glass, we create benefits that ripple across global supply chains to protect and conserve our air, water, climate, habitat, and biodiversity.

Here is how recycling works for some of the most common materials entering our recycling facilities:

This graphic is intended to be a depiction of a Materials Recovery Center and does not factually represent Casella’s facility designs.

Optical Sorters: Sensors visually scan and identify target materials then separate them using compressed air and/or robotics.

Disc Screen: Rotating shafts with rubber discs are calibrated to capture cardboard and paper while allowing other items to fall through.

Glass Breaker: A specialized disc screen separates glass fragments, which are then cleaned and sized using ballistic separators and blowers.

Magnet: Magnetic separators – often in the form of large rotating magnetic drums – pull metals from other recyclables.

Eddy Current: Rotating magnets induce a charge in non-ferrous metals such as aluminum and repel them from the other materials.

Robotics: Robotics are increasingly used to both identify and capture target materials at high rates of speed accuracy.

A.I. Technology: Advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning can support productivity, product quality, and material data.

Facility Spotlights

Ever wonder where your waste and recycling goes? Take a look behind the scenes at some of the state-of-the-art Casella facilities that recover value from your waste. We strategically invest in our region’s sustainability infrastructure and are committed to growing these essential services. Each year, we work with our customers to recover 1.4 million tons of material from the waste stream. Our goal is to be recovering 2 million tons by 2030.

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Boston Recycling Facility

Featuring the latest technologies, including robotics and artificial intelligence, this modern facility can accommodate an evolving recycling stream while helping to meet market demand for quality recycled commodities.

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Mattresses in a Casella recycling facility

Willimantic Mattress Recycling

With the right equipment and a talented team of operators, our Willimantic recycling facility processes thousands of mattresses per year, recovering metal, wood, and foam for recycling into new products.

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Long Trail Compost

The Long Trail Compost Facility in Bennington, VT is permitted to compost up to 5,000 cubic yards of food waste per year. We can also compost animal manure, yard trimmings, and other food waste residuals, such as off- spec animal feed. The resulting compost is sold as screened compost or blended into a manufactured topsoil or super-mulch product.

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Clinton County Landfill Gas to Energy

Decomposing waste creates landfill biogas. For over 15 years, the Clinton County landfill has been capturing this gas, cleaning it, and using it to make renewable electricity for the power grid.

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