page_title: Recology
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Recology / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: A Lōdal Evo T-28 waste collection truck operated by Recology in San Francisco, California, USA. This vehicle is a side-loading compacting waste collection truck. Waste is loaded into the hopper located in the middle of the vehicle, which is then compressed into the body by a hydraulic ram.
context_page_description: Recology is an integrated resource recovery company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company collects and processes municipal solid waste, reclaiming useful materials that would have otherwise been buried in a landfill. The company also operates transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, a number of landfills, and continues to spearhead renewable energy projects. Recology is the largest organics compost facility operator by volume in the United States.
  Recology Inc. is the parent to approximately 40 operating companies, including Recology San Francisco, Recology CleanScapes, and Recology Portland. These subsidiaries partner with approximately 132 communities in California, Washington, and Oregon, helping over 700,000 residential and 100,000 commercial customers divert material from landfills.
  Recology operates a number of facilities:
  15 transfer stations
  12 materials recovery facilities
  9 organics processing facilities
  3 landfills
  Recology is responsible for achieving the highest landfill diversion rate in the country through collaboration with the City of San Francisco, which created a Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance.
context_section_description: Recology promotes recycling, composting, and other waste-reduction programs to minimize the amount of materials sent to landfills.  The company has explored technologies to facilitate landfill diversion and developed programs to transform landfill-bound materials into their next best and highest use, including bulky item collection and donations, food scrap collection programs, and anaerobic digestion facilities.
  The company has advanced the conversion of organics into biogas to generate electricity. Recology Hay Road uses gas captured from the landfill to power an engine that converts it to electricity, producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity continuously, which is enough to power up to 1,600 homes.
  Just south of San Francisco, Recology brings solid and residential waste from Recology San Mateo County to the Shoreway Environmental Center, a large, multi-purpose recycling center and Materials Recovery Facility that is operated by South Bay Recycling, a joint venture between Recology and Potential Industries.
  In early 2009, after an investigation, the company obtained a court order against various organized illegal "poachers" who were raiding curbside recycling containers to sell the contents for scrap.
  As of 2015, the company employed approximately 3,000 employees, with revenues of approx $800 million. The company is 100% employee-owned through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Recology is the largest ESOP in the industry.
caption: A Recology waste collection truck in San Francisco.
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