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Haul Away Recycling history
Haul Away Recycling company history timeline
America built its first incinerator on Governors Island, New York in 1885.
And, in Britain, the first closed body trucks with a dumping lever mechanism were introduced in the 1920s.
In 1960, just over 6 percent of municipal solid waste was recycled.
In September 1968, recycling started in Madison.
The City of Madison began recycling newspapers in September 1968.
Tony Pellitteri continued to operate his business, "Tony Pellitteri Trucking Service," until his death in 1968, after which it was sold to a national concern.
Earth Day is celebrated for the first time on April 22, 1970.
Starting in 1972, any metal items were pulled from the refuse prior to shredding.
The first curbside-recycling bin “The Tree Saver” is used in Missouri for the collection of paper in 1974.
In 1976, Massachusetts secures the first ever EPA recycling grants.
Four years later in 1976, a curbside appliance collection and recycling program began.
In 1979, the City began a waste-to-energy program.
In 1979, Tom Pellitteri and his wife, Michele, founded Pellitteri Waste Systems, Inc. which has become a state-of-the-art waste disposal and recycling business.
Beginning in 1980, a voluntary yard waste collection program began with the Streets Division delivering leaves to area farmers for composting.
Two years later, the pilot program grew into a citywide program and eventually became mandatory on August 1, 1986.
In 1987, The Mobro 4000 (nicknamed “The Garbage Barge”) spends months on the ocean, searching for a location to dispose of its garbage cargo.
After nearly 20 years of only being able to recycle newspaper, a recycling program for glass began in 1987.
By 1989, the city began working to keep yard waste from entering the landfill.
In 1989, which was just two years after the glass drop-off program started, there was opportunity to recycle more items.
More than 10,000 communities had some sort of public recycling collection program in America by 1990, and curbside recycling started to take off around that time, too, according to some estimates.
In 1991, mandatory curbside recycling began.
The first ever-statewide ban on landfilling recyclable materials goes into effect, in Wisconsin in 1993.
Madison began a computer recycling program in 1998 with computer round up events.
(Still from 1998 computer round-up commercial featuring former recycling coordinator George Dreckmann)
In 2002 Pellitteri Waste Systems opened a new division to protect customer’s confidential information.
Starting in 2005, Madison began what's called "automated collection" of recycling.
(First model of automated recycling collection trucks in 2005.)
In 2008, the opportunity to recycle electronics with the City expanded.
More than 585 million pounds of consumer electronics are recycled—an increase of 125 million pounds (more than 25 percent) over 2011.
A pilot program for food scraps started in 2011.
In 2012 Pellitteri Waste Systems added a state of the art, fully automated MRF (Material Recovery Facility) which sorts single stream recyclables.
In 2013, the City started mattress recycling.
From the first municipal dump program in 500 B.C. to a revolutionary idea in 2014 that could lead to plastics Recycling themselves (actually not as outlandish as crediting dinosaurs for recycling), we've compiled a timeline of the most important events in recycling history.
CNG vehicles were added to the fleet in 2015 along with an internal expansion of maintenance facilities to allow for the serving and maintenance of compressed natural gas trucks.
As of April 2016, just 10 states plus Guam have a deposit-refund system for beverage containers.
March 1st, 2018: China announces the quality standard that scrap material imports must meet from now on, a 0.5% contamination standard for plastics and fibers.
On April 30th, 2018, The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change of Ontario released their Food and Organic waste Framework.
After years of development, the Ocean Cleanup System 001 set out for sail on September 8th, 2018, from a port in San Francisco.
(Automated collection trucks in 2018)
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