Word: bfi
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Another company on the technological leading edge is BFI of Houston, which uses sophisticated automation in its plants to sort and process paper, glass, plastics and metals. Its technology works so well that it has increased its "recycleries" from two to 93 in the past three years, and its recycling business is growing at 35% a year...
...federal Environmental Protection Agency and private conservation groups. Former EPA chief William Ruckelshaus, for example, is now chairman of Browning-Ferris Industries, one of the largest waste-treatment outfits in the country. In October, after the mostly Hispanic residents of Azusa, Calif., complained that expansion of a BFI-operated landfill would poison the groundwater, BFI offered to invest $20 million to clean up the contamination. The expansion was approved...
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