Recology is a private, 100% employee-owned resource recovery company based on the West Coast.
Recology companies operate in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington coordinating dozens of recycling programs to recover a variety of materials. Recology programs have been replicated throughout the country and serve as a national model for resource recovery initiatives. We are:
- The largest employee-owned company in the resource recovery industry, partnered with over 113 communities;
- Parent to over 40 subsidiaries that provides integrated services to over 670,000 residential and 95,000 commercial customers in California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington; and
- Recognized as the industry leader in resource recovery, having established the first and largest curbside yard trimmings and food scraps collection program in the country.
Recology, sees a world without waste, where resources are used and re-used in a sustainable ecosystem that strives for their best and highest use. Recology emphasizes recycling to reduce consumption of virgin natural resources and pioneered the first curbside compost program in the U.S.
Recology carries out its vision of a world without waste through educational programs and innovative engineering services.
Progressive Innovation
Resource recovery is fundamental to what Recology does. Our experience dates back to the early 1900s, when San Francisco Bay Area "scavengers" recognized the recycling opportunities in what was being discarded and actively sought out positive uses for refuse.
We are the pioneer in resource recovery, proud to have launched:
- The first anaerobic digestion of source-separated food scraps to create electricity in the United States, beginning in 2004.
- The first curbside compostable collection program in the United States, piloted in 1996.
- The first use of the split-body truck for efficient recyclables and garbage collection in 1999.
- The first large scale transfer station in the industry. It opened in November 1970.
- The world-renowned Artist in Residence Program in 1990 allowing local artists to find materials in our processing facilities to create art.
- One of the first household hazardous waste drop-off facilities and collection programs established in California as part of the municipal solid waste collected for the City and County of San Francisco.
Each Recology subsidiary offers unique recycling programs and services to benefit the communities we serve and to advance our industry toward WASTE ZERO. We continue to look for innovative ways to increase the recovery of resources in the communities we serve.
all above information from www.recology.com
