Holland, MI – February 15, 2012 – Chef Container, LLC announces the expansion of their curbside collection of recycling & refuse(garbage) to reach the City of Allegan starting February 13, 2012.

This offering by Chef Container will finally provide the residents in The City Of Allegan with weekly collection of both recycling and refuse (garbage). This is a win for the residents that have been locked into a tax based recycling program since 1993, which only provided bi-weekly collection.

Chef Container has had ongoing discussions with the City leaders over the past year to help them realize there were alterative recycling programs available for their residents.

The announcement by Mayor Tom Clark (City of Allegan) came this week stating they will be ending their tax recycling program based on the fact residents could receive additional recycling service and potentially spend much less than what the current tax base program offered. See Related Article from M-live: http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/02/allegan_city_gets_out_of_the_r.html

Chef Container will be providing its signature One-Pass Yellow Bag Recycling System which collects refuse (garbage) and recycling in one truck. The material is then delivered to the Allegan County based Westshore Recycling & Transfer facility where it sorted for recycling. This sorting process allows them to reclaim the yellow bags and other materials such as small appliances, cardboard, wood and additional non bagged recyclable materials which would normally be landfilled by other waste haulers.

This announcement and introduction into Allegan is part of Chef Containers expansion efforts for 2012 which includes several new service areas and new building additions at their Westshore Recycling & Transfer Facility.

Chef Container, LLC is a privately held solid waste and recycling company located in Allegan County, MI. Chef Container in collaboration with its sister company Westshore Recycling and Transfer Station provide creative recycling solutions for residential, industrial and commercial clients in Western Michigan.

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Holland, MI – January 6, 2012 – Chef Container, LLC announces the introduction of the first Ottawa County area school to embrace a ZERO Landfill philosophy. Calvary Schools of Holland, MI was approached by Chef Container with the offer to pilot a program which would increase recycling both at home and school for the students and also provide a diversion plan for the school to start utilizing a “WTE” Waste To Energy process for diverting all refuse from the landfill.

This pilot program is part of Chef Container and Westshore Recycling Facility sustainable community outreach program.  This program, which was initiated in 2011, partners with local business, organizations and non-profits to increase recycling while diverting material from local landfills.

On Wednesday January 4, 2011, the new program was introduced to the k-6 grade students during an assembly where the excitement for recycling was evident. Calvary School has two Holland locations, Plasman Ave – K-6 grade / High School Grade 7-12 on 147^th ave and as part of this program will have a community recycling dumpster at each location for the use of the students, parents and supporters of the school.  Kevin Alderink – the schools Executive Director is excited about the potential of the program and is available for comment at 616-396-4494.

 Chef Container, LLC is a privately held solid waste and recycling company located in Allegan County, MI. Chef Container in collaboration with its sister company Westshore Recycling and Transfer Station provide creative solutions for residential, industrial and commercial clients in Western Michigan.

]]> http://chefcontainer.com/news/537/feed/ 0 http://chefcontainer.com/news/chef-containers-residental-drop-off-area-feaured-in-video/ http://chefcontainer.com/news/chef-containers-residental-drop-off-area-feaured-in-video/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:28:51 +0000 matt_b http://chefcontainer.com/?p=530 Chef Container is proud to announce the instructional video from the City of Holland as to the process of using a “Project Pride Coupon” at The Westshore Recycling and Transfer Station.  These coupons are issue to homeowners within the City limits as a resource to get rid of overflow and/or unwanted household waste, appliances, yard waste and other debris. 

Chef Container was originally founded in 2002 and was focused on providing advanced
recycling within the solid waste marketplace. With the construction of the original
Westshore Recycling & Transfer facility in 2004, Chef Container, LLC was able to secure
contracts with several municipalities to include: The City of Holland, The City of
Saugatuck, The Township of Laketown and the County of Allegan’s recycling collection
depots.

The new building, which is part of our 10-year celebration initiatives, will be utilized to
process the solid waste materials to remove additional recycling not currently being
recycling by the residents and business of Ottawa and Allegan County. In addition, there
will be an expansion of the sorting line which will increase the facilities recycling
capabilities by three hundred (300%) percent. That is enough material to fill 1,820 Simi
trailers full of recycling, which if parked end to end would line up from from Holland State
Beach to Byron Center each year…

Chef Container, LLC is a privately held solid waste and recycling company located in
Allegan County, MI. Chef Container in collaboration with its sister company Westshore
Recycling and Transfer Station provide creative solutions for residential, industrial and
commercial clients in Western Michigan.

Allegan County received three bids that were reviewed based on similar container sizes and
program offerings. It was quickly determined by the members of the review committee that
Chef Container had offered the County a chance to save $123,600.00 over their current
vendor agreement for the next five year term. Mr. Ben Williams; Allegan County’s Solid
Waste and Recycling Resources department head was quick to notice the change in program
from the current dual stream recycling to single stream recycling system offered by Chef
Container. Currently there are eight (8) sites through out the county that utilize the recycle
agreement and produce an estimated 676 tons of recyclable materials per year (this figure is
based on current schedules and participants in the program).

It is with great pleasure that Chef Container announces the significant cost savings we were
able to provide the county of Allegan in the sum of $123.600.00 over five years within this
program.

Chef Container, LLC is a privately held solid waste and recycling hauler located in Allegan
County, MI. Chef Container in collaboration with its sister company Westshore Recycling
and Transfer Station provide creative solutions for residential, industrial and commercial
clients in Western Michigan