NRRA awards Universal Recycling Technologies business of the year

Pictured, from left: Rick Norton of Universal Recycling Technologies receives the NRRA Recycling Business of the Year Award from Marilyn Weir, NRRA member services representative.

The Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA), Epsom, New Hampshire, has recognized Universal Recycling Technologies (URT) of Dover, New Hampshire, with the NRRA Recycling Business of the Year Award.

The association presented the award at its 37^th Annual Conference and Expo, Monday, May 21, 2018, at The Manchester Downtown Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire.

URT is an electronics recycling company and has locations across the country, offering a range of e-scrap services. It is a full-service information technology asset disposition (ITAD) and e-scrap company that works with municipalities, governments and individual consumers.

The company has been an NRRA vendor since 2003 and has assisted 150 NRRA members in collecting, processing and recycling more than 2 million pounds of electronics as well as difficult-to-handle items, such as fluorescent bulbs and batteries in the last year alone, NRRA says.

Founded in 1981, NRRA provides a clearinghouse for current, up-to-date information and a source of technical and marketing assistance in the general areas of waste reduction and recycling. NRRA is a member-driven nonprofit organization made up of more than 400 municipalities, individuals and businesses in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and southern Maine.