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Doing the Best They Can: EverestLabs Ensures Fewer Recyclables Go to Landfills - Ep. 184

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What I Learned From MRFs, Material Recycling Systems

A typical recycling plant doesn't have real-time data insights into what's flowing through their plant on a commodity basis. They didn't have the minute details that would enable them to say, no, I'm receiving a heavy load of beverage cans. So we should recover more aluminum so that we can,. you know, build them up and sell and get more value as aluminum can be recycled in a different amount of times. Right? And these commodities are traded just like any, you know, they stop futures if you will. That was a big discovery for us.

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