Category Archives: Materials Recovery

The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA), Washington, awarded its first recycling awards Sept. 10, 2015, at the inaugural Waste360 Recycling Summit, an event hosted by Penton and NWRA in Chicago. Four awards and three honorable mentions were given to …
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Are you guilty of “wish cycling?” That’s the practice of tossing questionable items in the recycling bin, hoping they can somehow be recycled. The term arose this weekend in a story about how low material prices are hurting the Twin Cities …
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Dem-Con Cos. LLC, Shakopee, Minnesota, has been awarded the gold medal in the 2015 SWANA (Solid Waste Association of North America) Excellence Awards in Recycling Systems for its 20-ton-per-hour residential and commercial single-stream recycling facility. Since 1965, privately owned Dem-Con …
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Dem-Con Companies, LLC’s 20 tonne per hour (tph) residential and commercial single stream recycling facility has been awarded the gold medal in the 2015 SWANA (Solid Waste Association of North America) Excellence Awards in Recycling Systems.   http://www.waste-management-world.com/articles/2015/08/dem-con-materials-recovery-facility-wins-swana-excellence-award.html

Single sort recycling is the most convenient recycling method and the Dem-Con Company has a state of the art facility in Shakopee that processes 20 tons of recyclables per hour. Dem-Con works with local recycling and waste collection companies to …
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The forward-thinking approach of Dem-Con Cos.’ executives has allowed the Minnesota-based company to grow its business into an integrated campus with multiple recycling divisions. See the full article HERE

Dem-Con Companies has opened a single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) in Shakopee, Minn. See full article HERE

 Homeowners do it. School kids do it. Now, thanks to a law passed by the 2014 Legislature, businesses will have to order the bins and put up the signs for cans, bottles and plastic when recycling becomes mandatory on Jan. …
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Dem-Con Cos., Shakopee, Minn., has teamed up with San Diego-based CP Group to custom design and install a 20-ton-per-hour single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) at the company’s headquarters. See full article HERE

March 25, 2014 – Dem-Con Companies has teamed up with San Diego-based CP Group to custom design and install a new 20-ton per hour single stream material recovery facility in Shakopee, Minnesota. The new material recovery facility began operating in …
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