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1. What is Mid-Michigan Recycling?
Mid-Michigan Recycling (MMR) is a wood waste recycling
company; it has been in business since 1993, specializing in
receiving, transporting, processing and recycling wood waste
to conserve our state’s natural resources and improve our
environment. MMR operates multiple wood-waste recovery yards
in southern Michigan and is an authorized Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality wood waste recycling
company. MMR classifies wood waste for its highest value
use. The wood waste is then reused in its original form or
processed and recycled into the appropriate market.
2. What is wood waste?
Wood waste is wood that no longer has value at its current
location, it may be a waste product of a process, it may be
from shipping/receiving, it may be from construction or
de-construction, etc. It is produced by manufacturing,
forestry, construction, de-construction sectors,
municipalities and utilities. MMR offers convenient and
economical methods to recycle/dispose of a diverse array of
wood-waste products ranging from sawdust to entire trees,
including pallets/skids, crates, wire reels, scrap wood,
sawdust, shavings, milling residue, processed wood, cutoffs,
trees, branches, brush, stumps and bark.
3. Why should wood waste be recycled rather than just land
filled?
If land filled, wood waste takes up valuable space reducing
short and long term space for materials that require burial.
By recycling, rather than land filling, wood waste to its
best use, it saves our state’s wood natural resource.
4. How does MMR recycle wood waste?
MMR recycles wood waste through several alternative
environmentally sound uses. Customers can recycle of
their wood waste at one of MMR’s recovery yards, or, for
greater convenience, MMR offers customized pickup and
transportation services in addition to a wide network of
contract wood-hauling services and specially designed
trailers and equipment. The wood waste is then sorted for
highest value use.
5. What are the uses for wood waste after it has been
recycled?
Wood waste may be used in its original form for lumber,
pallets, etc, or chipped or ground into suitable sizes for a
variety of specialty product markets such as landscape
material, playground material, animal bedding, etc. Residual
wood waste material is recycled at the Genesee Power Station
for the generation of “green power” used by the residents of
Michigan.
6. Why is it important for manufacturers to recycle their
wood waste to MMR versus a landfill?
MMR recycles more than 1.5 million cubic yards of wood waste
annually. By recycling wood waste to its highest value use,
it becomes less wasteful, helping to preserve trees, one of
our natural resources. This, in turn, protects wildlife
habitat, reduces soil erosion and helps maintain air
quality. Furthermore, proper recycling of wood waste results
in reductions in the generation of greenhouse gases emitted
in our atmosphere.
7. How does MMR work with a company’s current waste vendor?
Companies today are environmentally conscious and have
established goals with their waste vendors to maximize waste
recycling (and minimize land filling). With that in mind,
MMR becomes one of many recycling companies all contributing
towards reaching the goal of total recycling of waste
materials.
8. What are a company’s responsibilities as a customer to
MMR?
The biggest thing companies can do to help recycle is to
properly separate their wood waste from other wastes such as
plastics, paper, etc. MMR has pickers and can perform this
separation task, but it is more cost effective performed at
the source.
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