Busy warehouses can be hazardous places, thanks to heavy machinery, falling objects, dangerous chemicals – and recycling problems. If you’ve walked through a warehouse where cardboard mountains have started to form, you know the last one is true. Without efficient recycling systems in place, recyclable materials build up and cause all kinds of issues. From...Continue Reading

Roll off containers can be the most space- and cost-efficient way to manage large amounts of waste. Renting or buying roll off containers does cost your business a not-insignificant amount of space and money, so you don’t want to bring this type of equipment on site unless you’re confident that it’s necessary. Sometimes other types...Continue Reading

“We want to have an efficient recycling process; we just don’t know what that looks like.” That’s the basic message we hear a lot at Miller Recycling. Most business leaders don’t need to be convinced about the benefits of recycling these days. They understand the environmental and financial impact of recycling. They know it’s something...Continue Reading

The EPA has been aggressively working to advance recycling efforts in recent years. Education has improved, and the general public has learned a lot about what and how to recycle. Far more businesses provide recycling containers and have their own onsite commercial recycling equipment now than they did 20 years ago. In 1980 only 10...Continue Reading

Every business needs recycling equipment of some kind. In a one-person office, a recycling bin might get the job done. But a business that receives many shipments and/or generates a lot of recyclable waste needs high-volume equipment to manage all of its cardboard, paper, shrink wrap and other waste. Having onsite balers and compactors allows...Continue Reading

Like other types of recycling, scrap metal recycling has significant environmental benefits. Repurposing existing materials reduces the need to create new ones, which in turn reduces the need to mine for metal ore and other virgin materials. Recycling  also keeps it out of landfills. And since metal may be recycled over and over without diminishing...Continue Reading

Even in an increasingly digital world, we all still rely on paper. It’s more critical in some industries than others. Your business might be able to adjust to a temporary shortage of printer paper by printing essential items only, but a newspaper publisher can’t function without an adequate supply of newsprint, and that’s exactly the...Continue Reading

It’s been happening gradually, but the recycling landscape has changed significantly in the last several years. All family-owned recycling companies in Massachusetts would probably tell you the same thing. Increased competition and pressure from larger organizations has made it more and more challenging for small businesses to continue operating. Multiple Massachusetts recycling companies have shut...Continue Reading

If your business generates any scrap copper, you probably noticed that 2021 was a banner year for copper prices. So far, 2022 is following suit. And if your business buys scrap copper, you’ve definitely noticed that copper has been more expensive than ever before.  Globally, copper prices reached all-time highs in 2021 and reached a...Continue Reading