Clean Earth, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, announced Nov. 12 that it expects its Clean Earth Aerosol Recycling System to process 13 million aerosol cans by the end of 2020. According to the company, this would be an 85 percent increase from the company’s 2015 aerosol can recycling volumes. Specializing in aerosol recycling for pressurized steel cans, aluminum cans, plastics and glass, Clean Earth says it has already surpassed its record recycling volumes from 2017.
The company says this increase in volumes is a result of Clean Earth’s history of aerosol recycling Final Rule compliance, health and safety initiatives and the company’s specialized recycling system technology. Clean Earth commits to ensuring that 100 percent of each can goes through the recycling process, helping divert material from landfill and reduce customers’ carbon footprint.
Clean Earth boasts 19 transfer, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) for processing of aerosol cans. Clean Earth’s largest processing site is a hazardous waste facility in Morgantown, West Virginia, that processes aerosol cans received from across the country. Clean Earth’s network is projected to expand with additional recycling processing units by 2022.
“It’s exciting to have bypassed one of our core company goals this year for the Aerosol Recycling System, which was the processing of 11.4 million aerosol cans,” Clean Earth Vice President of Operations Hector Sanchez says. “Our mission for Clean Earth’s aerosol services directly align with our goals for sustainability—to ultimately go green as a company and for zero components to end up in a landfill. We’re committed to providing a 100 percent sustainable solution for aerosol waste for our customers and remaining a cutting-edge vendor with market-leading technology features.”