Like most of you, we had hoped (and prayed) that the coronavirus would be almost history by this time, not still one of the primary topics across our nation. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Thus, again we will touch on the subject as addressed in an article in the Resource Recycling newsletter.
In this latest newsletter, they mention infections among workers have caused at least one Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to shutter. It has also delayed collection of recyclables in a number of areas. It also spoke of how the federal government and at least one state are working to provide masks and funding to help programs cope.
Going back, the coronavirus pandemic has been affecting recycling programs since the middle of March. Already then, stay-at-home orders and other regulations began to change our daily life throughout our country. These caused recycling programs to experience both material volume changes and operational methods. It even led to some programs having to suspend services.
