ReCommunity, a recycling company, has significantly expanded its workforce after investing $5 million into its Southfield location to upgrade it to a single-stream processing facility. The investment is aimed to help the Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County expand the amount of material it recycles by allowing users to have one recycling bin instead of sorting out their recyclables.
That investment has allowed ReCommunity to hire a dozen new people, expanding its Southfield staff to forty. The company employs 245 people in Michigan at five locations. Those facilities are in places like Ann Arbor, Roseville and Saginaw.
"This will be a large enabler for expanding the footprint we have," says Sean Duffy, president & COO of
ReCommunity.
ReCommunity expects its new single-stream recycling facility will create 66 new jobs in the near future.
Source: Sean Duffy, president & COO of ReCommunity
Writer: Jon Zemke
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