RCI names new chief operations officer

The Sacramento, California-based Recycling Certification Institute (RCI) has named Randy Wolf as its new chief operations officer. The announcement was made by RCI Board of Governance president John Thomas in a Sept. 2 LinkedIn post.

Wolf spent more than two decades with the former Balcones Fuel Technology business unit of Austin, Texas-based Balcones Resources from 1999 to 2021. The subsidiary operated a facility in Arkansas that converted hard-to-recycle industrial and commercially generated materials into engineered fuel cubes.

Subsequently, Wolf has worked on other projects and in other positions related to solid waste and construction and demolition (C&D) materials diversion and energy conversion efforts.

“Randy’s many years of passion for educating on the benefits of recycling and diversion made his appointment unanimous among the board members,” Thomas says in his LinkedIn post. “As RCI reaches a broader base as the only recognized third-party verification facilitator in North America, Randy’s ability to understand the importance of verifiable recycling rates makes him the perfect person to lead RCI for years to come."

RCI oversees a national certification program designed to ensure “integrity, transparency, accuracy and reliability in the recovery/recycling reports of participating C&D recycling facilities.”

So far this year, RCI has granted certification to four processes or facilities: The Richard S. Burns Tommy Cart System in Philadelphia; facilities in Salem and Epping, New Hampshire, operated by Resource Waste Services (RWS); and a Debris To Green Recycling (DTG) facility in Redmond, Washington.