Waste Management Sustainability

Making a big difference in a simple way.

When we focus on waste diversion, we’re actively contributing to sustainability and helping landfills last longer. By reusing, recycling, and repurposing materials, we create a system where valuable resources stay in use instead of being tossed away. This not only saves energy and reduces the need to extract new materials but also helps protect our environment. Every time we divert waste, we free up space in landfills for items that truly can’t be reused or recycled, which means we can delay the expensive process of expanding or closing landfill sites.

Talk to a LaBella Expert

Jenny Johnson
Vice President, Director of Waste & Recycling
Richmond, VA

(804) 980-7462

Our Service Offerings

Material Reuse & Recycling

Our team is experienced when it comes to understanding what types of materials can be recycled or reused, and we can help determine what should be processed. Through waste stream analysis studies, we determine the potential quantity of uncaptured materials and evaluate the economic feasibility of creating a new program or improving an existing program. We also have the capabilities to design and permit the facilities to process the materials as well as recommend the equipment to sort and process the materials.

Organic Waste Diversion & Management

From operational support to complete facility design and long-term financial analysis, LaBella can meet our clients’ organics diversion, processing, and management needs. We offer a complete array of services to support our clients, not only in design, operation, and compliance, but also in evaluating organic waste management options (e.g., composting, anaerobic digestion) from a financial perspective. Our services include waste stream analyses to determine the potential quantity of uncaptured materials.

Our compost engineering focuses on site design, permitting, and helping our clients meet regulatory requirements. In addition, we work with our clients to determine changes to operations that may reduce costs and improve the end product. Simple changes to the process can have a meaningful impact on the final product. And when the product is improved, the value increases. Our objective is to make sure the facility is operating as efficiently as possible, and we accomplish this by looking at the facility, watching the operation, and—most importantly—talking with the operators.

We also support composting operations by providing our Compost Operator Training Course. Click the link below to check out our training services.

Training Services

Featured Press

Recycling Realities – As Published in Talk of the Towns

Jenny Johnson, LaBella’s Director of Waste & Recycling, was published in the September/October issue of Talk of the Towns, a publication from the Association of Towns of the State of New York. In the article, Jenny shares recent changes to the economic realities of curbside recycling and offers some suggestions for other ways to meet recycling goals.

The article is available in PDF format (see page 10).

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Featured Press

Organics and the China Ban on Recyclables – As Featured in Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine

Will organic food waste management be impacted by the mandatory recycling rates and the China ban on recyclables? Jenny Johnson, LaBella’s Director of Waste & Recycling, has a guest article in Solid Waste & Recycling magazine on the topic.

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