Michigan recycling company honored - Municipal Recycling - Granger Recycling Center - Brief Article

Recycling Today, July, 2002

The Michigan Recycling Coalition (MRC) has awarded Granger Recycling Center, Lansing, Mich., the Private Recycling Achievement Award. The 20th annual award to be conferred by the MRC was presented to Granger at the MRC convention in Pontiac, Mich., in early June.

Granger Recycling Chief Operating Officer Keith Granger says the company can claim a number of recycling-related firsts in its part of the Wolverine State. Granger claims the company created the first large-scale composting facility in mid-Michigan; opened the first 24-hour public drop-off center for recyclables in the state; and had the first operational landfill gas recovery project in the state.

Granger began diversifying from landfill to recycling operations in the early '70s with glass recycling centers. In 1989, the company completed a 50,000-square foot material recovery facility (MRF), where paper, plastics, glass, steel cans and aluminum cans are processed. The MRF, on the north side of Lansing, currently processes more than 1,500 tons of materials each month. The facility accepts source-separated and commingled loads.

"We truly believe in our recycling programs and work to make them not only a benefit to the environment, but sound economic programs also," Keith Granger, says. "We have a long history of providing innovative environmental management-related services to the mid-Michigan community."