Beyond Composting: Anaerobic Digester for the Wasatch Front
Kate Whitbeck of Momentum Recycling presented at the 6th Annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit on March 5th on developing an anaerobic digester to convert Salt Lake City’s food waste to energy:
Speaking on Business – Momentum Recycling
Zions Direct TV covers Momentum Recycling’s curbside glass collection service for residents along with our other mixed recyclables and composting services for businesses:
ABC 4 News “Recycle This” Series: Glass Recycling
Did you know that the national average for glass recycling is 33%, yet here in Utah we are only recycling 6% of our glass currently? – Kimberly Nelson from ABC 4 News toured Momentum Recycling’s glass processing facility in their weekly “Recycle This” series to help educate residents on where & how to recycle their glass:
http://www.good4utah.com/story/d/story/recycle-this-glass/20702/d3K3y9LgHEOem1C76f5y2Q
Jason Utgaard Presents at TEDxSaltLakeCity
Jason Utgaard works here at Momentum Recycling assisting with our community outreach efforts by helping educate area residents on how/where to best recycle their glass, as well as by helping to promote the efforts of local businesses who are actively recycling to divert material from our landfills.
A few years ago, Jason founded an online store called The Spotted Door that is dedicated exclusively to products made from recycled + reclaimed materials. The site features reclaimed wood furniture, recycled glass jewelry, clothing made from recycled plastic, and several hundred other items.
He recently presented at TEDxSaltLakeCity on “Designing the Future Using Unlikely Materials.” Take a few minutes and listen to his inspirational talk!
Recycle Utah Gets “Uncorked” with Annual Fundraiser
Recycle Utah wants to offer continuous glass recycling for Summit County. The nonprofit organization has recycled glass on and off for the past 24 ½ years, and would like to make it a permanent service. The trick, however, is the logistics: “We would do it when we had someone to deliver our bin to the Salt Lake valley,” said Insa Riepen, Recycle Utah executive director. “We would collect the glass here and then transport it down the canyon, but we couldn’t guarantee that we could do it because we needed to contract the haulers and the sorters.” That’s why Recycle Utah began hosting its Uncorked fundraiser three years ago. Read More
Pleasant Grove Glass Recycling Program Gets a Second Pass
A simple tweet opened a whole new possibility for recycling in Utah Valley this week. Acting on the request of residents, Pleasant Grove has started what is believed to be the valley’s first glass recycling program. Utah Valley as a whole has been slow to adopt such an effort, which has been available for a couple years in Salt Lake County and Park City.
