Overview of CoRR Programs

Our Plan to Eliminate the Concept of Waste in NYC and Beyond

In the current system, 2,400 tons per day of the following materials is exported from New York City’s accommodation, food service, and retail sectors and sent to distant landfills. CoRR’s programs close the loop on paper, metal, plastic, and glass, reduce food waste, and locally recover the energy in wasted food, powering the city with green energy. The following diagram depicts our programs to transform food and paper waste into assets.

Our Programs

Wholesale Packaging

Achieve 100% recyclable wholesale transfer packaging, at world’s largest distribution center, setting the standard throughout the world.

Food Waste

Identify onsite food waste reduction technologies with optimal environmental and financial performance to reduce commercial food waste by 50% or more.

Food Packaging

Design coffee and soda cups, and other fiber-based food packaging so that it can be collected and recycled with old corrugated cardboard and turned into high-value products.

End-of-Life Treatment

Develop a conceptual plan and financial, operational, and environmental comparison of end-of-life technologies that could be sited in the city to treat the commercial organics waste stream. Technologies to be evaluated include composting, anaerobic digestion, and plasma gasification.

Carpet

Exponentially increase recycling of commercial carpet discarded in the New York City Metro Region through facilitating expansion of existing local recycling facilities, including the manufacture of products from carpet discards.

Beverage Containers

Increase beverage container recycling for manufacture into new products.

Plastic Bags

Increase use of reusable bags and readily recyclable single-use bags when one is needed.