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Article: New state law helps boost the fortunes of recyclers: municipal contracts provide the bulk of new pickups.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- July 19, 1993
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Waste Management Inc./Recycle America, which has nabbed a number of new municipal recycling contracts in the last year, is the largest recycling firm in Los Angeles County as ranked by number of employees involved in recycling, according to this week's List.
Waste Management increased the number of its L.A. County employees involved in recycling from 100, as reflected on last year's List, to 240 on this year's, said Gary Petersen, director of environmental affairs for the Western U.S. division of Recycle America, the recycling arm of the Oak Brook, Ill.-based waste giant. Waste Management was ranked No. 8 on last year's List.
The primary reason for Waste ...