Recycling surgical blue wrap makes sense. It keeps the material out of your red bag disposal stream and may even help lower your overall medical waste numbers. Nowadays, reducing and reusing material is worth the effort. Making new life of your blue wrap, rather than having it go to a landfill, promotes your facility’s sustainability efforts. In 2021, one Madison, WI hospital recycled nearly 25,000 pounds of blue wrap. About 13% of its total biohazard waste! What is Blue Wrap? This blue material, often wrapped around surgical instruments to help keep them sterile, contains 99% polypropyl ..read more

Ecologically sound waste management is crucial for preserving our environment. Logistics Recycling, Inc. (LRI) contributes to this effort through a process called Waste to Energy.   What is Waste To Energy? Waste-to-energy is a process of generating energy in the form of electricity or heat from treating municipal solid waste. The energy produced can power homes, businesses, and industries.   How Does It Work? Consolidating non-hazardous materials with energy-rich municipal waste, like wood or paper, converts non-liquid waste to energy. This closed-loop process heats water, creatin ..read more

In a strategic move to further its position as a leading regional hauler and processor of universal, hazardous, and medical waste, Logistics Recycling, Inc. (LRI) has announced its acquisition of Madison Environmental Resourcing Inc. (MERI), based in Madison, WI. This acquisition not only expands LRI's footprint across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and the Dakotas but also amplifies the organization’s commitment to delivering superior services to medical institutions, such as hospitals, clinics, and acute care facilities. “We’re thrilled to integrate MERI into the LRI family. This unio ..read more

Medical waste is part and parcel of a health-care service. Every year numerous amounts of medical waste is produced by health-care facilities out of which about 85% is general waste and the remaining 15% is hazardous materials that are potentially infectious, toxic, and radioactive. To prevent the risk of dispersion of disease and infection from this waste, their safe disposal and management is a vital task that falls on medical facilities. An excellent way of medical sharps disposal is to work with a medical waste disposal company. With their timely and reliable service, a waste disposal com ..read more

With the influx of new technology each year and our ever-present demand for it, we do not ever stop to consider what happens to all of our old technology that has been accumulating for years on end. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 60 million tons of electronic waste are generated each year globally. The amount of hazardous electronic waste being produced is an alarming problem that needs to be dealt with immediately. Fortunately, recycling them is a possibility, one that has a lot of long-lasting benefits for the planet. Why Recycling Electronic Waste is Necessary Keep ..read more