CMRA Honors recyclers.

The Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) honored one company and one government agency for their achievements in C&D recycling at the association's Annual Meeting at the C&D World Show in January.

The association gave out awards in two categories. The first was for Concrete/Asphalt Recycler of the year. The 2007 winner is a facility located on a waterfront and industrial parcel in Woodbridge, N.J. Started 12 years ago, Bayshore Recycling Corp. has positioned itself as an urban quarry because of its location in a densely populated region. The operation takes in concrete, asphalt, brick and block and turns it into four sizes of clean stone, ranging from 3/4-inch to 2 1/2-inch.

Bayshore has also developed an alliance with Rutgers University on a program for the beneficial and economically feasible reuse solutions for dredge materials, scrap tires and other materials. While this will help Bayshore, it also will help all recyclers in New Jersey interested in expanded markets while showing government the potential the industry offers to help the environment, according to William Turley, the CMRA's executive director.

There are also plans for the operation to expand into mixed C&D recycling.

In addition, StopWaste.org in Alameda County, Calif., was honored at the Government Recycling Program of the Year. The job of StopWaste.Org is to reduce the county's waste stream. StopWaste.Org is the Alameda County Waste Management Authority and the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board operating as one public agency. Like many solid waste agencies, it is funded from a fee generated from the local landfills. But StopWaste.org has truly tried to work to reduce waste going to the landfills, and strongly promotes recycling and reuse, especially in C&D, according to Turley.

The county agency was one of the first to develop a model ordinance for its cities and municipalities to use to promote C&D recycling. The state of California itself followed its lead nearly five years later.

Those seeking more information can go to the group's Web site at www.cdrecycling.org.