Word: schedler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dilapidated garage in New York City's South Bronx would not be most people's idea of an office. But for Michael Schedler and his partners in Bronx 2000, a nonprofit development corporation, such an unlikely site became the first home eight years ago for a booming business: the R2B2 recycling plant...
...R2B2 started as a sexy way to get garbage off the streets," explains Schedler, 40, the plant's chief of operations. The trick was to pay people cash to bring in bottles, cans, newspapers and other trash. Soon, not only were the streets cleaner, but hundreds of the Bronx's disadvantaged residents had a steady source of income. Today R2B2 has 30 employees and buys about 35 tons of nearly 30 different recyclable materials daily. The plant bales, melts, grinds or otherwise processes the discarded items and then sells them to companies for turning into new products...