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February Media Highlights

February 2024 was a strong month for Republic Services!  Check out what we did last month!

New facility captures 60% of Mesa’s recyclables
Mesa Tribune (AZ) | February 1, 2024

Four years after its Salt River Recycling Facility north of Mesa was destroyed in a fire, Republic Services last week publicly unveiled a larger and more sophisticated replacement at its Beeline Highway location in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community.

Salt River Recycling Center Open for Business
O’Odham Action News (AZ) | February 5, 2024

The long-awaited 51,000-square-foot Salt River Recycling Center facility located at the landfill on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is now open for business.  Built and managed by Republic Services, the new center will be able to process eight truckloads an hour, or 40 tons of material, according to Sidiq Young, Republic Services general manager, North Phoenix Business Unit.

Republic Services signs lease for new Valley office HQ
ABC 15 (AZ) | February 13, 2024

Phoenix-based Republic Services unveiled plans last summer for a relocated Phoenix corporate campus at the major CityNorth mixed-use development near Desert Ridge Marketplace. It has now signed a long-term lease and a joint development agreement for the site, documents show.

First-of-its-kind polymer center forecast to process 100 million pounds of plastic this year
Fox 5 Vegas (NV) | February 14, 2024

A first-of-its-kind polymer center is projected to process 100 million pounds of plastic this year.  The plant opened in December and has been processing plastic bottles and jugs since then.  “The plastic water bottles are ground cleaned and then bagged to use as plastic bottles once again,” said Jeremy Walters with Republic Services.

Ameresco Begins Operations of 5.2 MWe Renewable Natural Gas Plant at Republic Services’ Brickyard Landfill
MorningStar (IL) | February 20, 2024

Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that it achieved commercial operation at its landfill gas to renewable natural gas plant at Republic Services’ Brickyard Landfill in Danville, Illinois.

Republic Services CEO Jon Vander Ark: We’ve moved from a waste company to a sustainability company
CNBC | February 28, 2024

Jon Vander Ark, Republic Services CEO, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the company’s quarterly earnings results, better-than-expected revenue forecast, demand outlook for garbage collection and disposal, and more.

 

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