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https://www.waste360.com/national-waste-recycling-association/women-leaders-waste-cindy-miller-ceo-stericycle
Miller is a lot of things that I am not, and I admire her tremendously for it. This was a really wonderful profile to read.
I was at Waste360 because OCC is back in the news over on Bloomberg. Everyone ordering online means more demand for boxes means more demand for cardboard which means more demand for recycled cardboard (OCC). The pandemic shut down or reduced the operations of many institutional settings which generated large amounts of consistently clean OCC, and municipal recycling around the country has had budget cuts that led to reducing curbside. Also, normal people often don’t break down their boxes, or reuse them a bunch before recycling, and OCC in mixed waste often gets wet and/or covered in food, all of which is bad for recycling it.
I did not actually find much OCC coverage at Waste360 (current anyway, altho a few of their previous year entries were Feb 13, so maybe by next Monday we’ll see something?). I’ll go poke around elsewhere.
It would be nice to get an update on the shift to US production of cardboard in the wake of China limiting imports of US garbage.
Miller is a lot of things that I am not, and I admire her tremendously for it. This was a really wonderful profile to read.
I was at Waste360 because OCC is back in the news over on Bloomberg. Everyone ordering online means more demand for boxes means more demand for cardboard which means more demand for recycled cardboard (OCC). The pandemic shut down or reduced the operations of many institutional settings which generated large amounts of consistently clean OCC, and municipal recycling around the country has had budget cuts that led to reducing curbside. Also, normal people often don’t break down their boxes, or reuse them a bunch before recycling, and OCC in mixed waste often gets wet and/or covered in food, all of which is bad for recycling it.
I did not actually find much OCC coverage at Waste360 (current anyway, altho a few of their previous year entries were Feb 13, so maybe by next Monday we’ll see something?). I’ll go poke around elsewhere.
It would be nice to get an update on the shift to US production of cardboard in the wake of China limiting imports of US garbage.