Operations & Compliance Support
OUR APPROACH
This area of service is a confluence of operations and policy; helping to design and implement plans that align with goals and comply with policy.
PROJECT EXAMPLES
Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance (CSSA): CSSA is a national non-profit organization that represents the interests of Canadian businesses and provides support services to paper packaging and printed paper (PPP) stewardship programs across four provinces in Canada. RRS is the technical consultant working to support CSSA’s Material Cost Differentiation (MCD) Project to define the methodology used to measure each material’s impact on the cost of the recycling system activities based on its characteristics. This provides an important input to the overall fee setting process in the four participating Canadian packaging and printed paper (PPP) recycling programs to ensure those fees reflect the relative impacts of material characteristics on the cost of recycling system activities. RRS’ work involves conceptual system design, cost modeling, and field testing and measurement to support the groundbreaking MCD approach. For more on the MCD project, see https://www.cssalliance.ca/mcd/.
This work was conducted by Resa Dimino and team with RRS.
Regional Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO): A regional producer responsibility organization for manufacturers of packaging and printed products responsible for providing financial support for residential recycling services was seeking to understand the best practices in material recovery facility (MRF) design and operations, and ultimately to design a MRF of the Future. The goal of this research and ultimate design was to understand how capital investment in state of the art MRF equipment and implementation of operational best practices would ultimately yield a recycling system that produced high quality materials at a lower cost.
Detailed aspects of a MRF requiring careful management and operation including workforce, safety, operations, maintenance, data management, marketing, operating budget, and long-term budgeting for major repairs.
Described decision points, criteria, and options related to the design of a MRF.
Final document included equipment list, space requirements, capital costs, and a figure of material flow based on the PRO’s unique material composition.
This work was conducted by Resa Dimino and team with RRS.