Industry Insights

We interviewed Kim Leonard for our Women’s Small Business Month feature, highlighting women who own and operate Rotochopper equipment. We […]

In more than 25 years in the grinding and recycling industry, we’ve learned there’s always more than meets the eye […]

What can landscape mulch producers learn from spaghetti sauce? A lot, if you’re focused on customer satisfaction as a business […]

Rotochopper started when a Midwestern farmer decided to turn paper and wood waste into animal bedding. Twenty-five years later Rotochopper grinders […]

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 75% of the waste stream in the United States is recyclable, but […]

Like many safety advancements, the slow moving vehicle sign developed in response to statistics that painted a very clear picture. […]

Ninety-five percent of all U.S. packaged products are shipped on pallets, 93 percent of which are made from wood. If […]

With approximately 476 million tons generated annually, construction and demolition debris is the largest waste stream by weight. This total […]

The invention of the 4-Way Pallet helped allied forces solve logistical challenges in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The basic […]

Grinding 10 typical junk pallets to a typical landscape mulch specification produces approximately one cubic yard (.9 cubic meters) of […]

Lead car battery recycling is an economic success but an environmental failure. The success and failure both offer lessons for […]