Facilities Tour - Atlanta, GA Wednesday - March 30, 2016
$40
First Stop: Arrive by 9:15 AM Leave your car here for the day!
Waste Pro USA, Inc. and American Recycling of Georgia, LLC have been processing single stream residential and commercial at this facility since 2008. Waste Pro and American Recycling have recently invested over two million dollars to their system to handle all of the items that are recycled in these recovered streams. Part of this investment was for a “glass breaker.” This part of their system allows the glass to be broken down and separated from other recyclables in the single stream or commingled line. Waste Pro and American Recycling do their best to get every item to the recyclers. There will always be smaller, uncontrollable amounts of glass that do not make it to the recyclers; this residual does go to a C&D (Construction and Demo) Landfill. (Cooper Transportation Bus will depart at 10:30 AM)
(Will be here for 2 hours-self guided “sustainability” tour and lunch on your own in their fabulous Food Court Hall) Ponce City Market, the redevelopment of the former Sears Roebuck and Co. building is in the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta; designed in 1925 for Sears, the original showroom and warehouse was built on the grounds of the Ponce Springs Amusement Park across the street from the Atlanta Crackers baseball field. Sears operated there until the 1980’s when the City of Atlanta occupied it as City Hall East for 20 years. In 2010 Jamestown acquired the property beginning a new chapter for the almost 100 year old building. Older properties, looking for attention and new purpose rather than demolition and disposal in Atlanta, hold value as adaptive reuse projects in the city. (Cooper Transportation Bus will depart at 1:00 PM)
First off, what is “repurposing”? It is taking a byproduct or waste stream such as a retired street sweeper brush and giving it a 2nd life as a backscratcher for horses or cattle. It is taking a decommissioned fire hose and giving it an extended life as a boat dock fender. It is taking an obsolete ski lift cable and giving it a second life as hand railing in a luxury condo building. repurposed MATERIALS began focusing solely on material “repurposing” like in the examples above. You’ll find all kinds of crazy, offbeat industrial castoffs at their five locations…Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, and Philadelphia…that could get a very different 2nd life. They are now extending their “repurposing” mission/concept to include things like Chemicals and Ingredients, Products and Inventories, Equipment and Machinery, and even Real Estate. Anything that is obsolete to its primary industry is of interest. (Cooper Transportation Bus will depart at 3:00 PM to Return to Waste Pro to pick up cars)
