National Waste Management Holdings, Inc. (NWMH) Supporting Florida’s Recycling Efforts
Since 2008, Florida has been focusing its efforts on its new statewide recycling goal of 75%, to be achieved by 2020. This was later followed by an amendment in legislation to promote the production of renewable energy from waste. As a result of these changes, and others, the recycling rate in the state increased by 4% between 2012 and 2013, according to Waste Management World (http://dtn.fm/lw3BV). These new efforts to increase Florida’s recycling rates found Jorge Caspary, director of the Division of Waste Management, urging organizations to increase their recycling efforts, since commercial municipal waste makes up approximately 55% of…