Lakeshore Recycling Systems, MCS Recycling achieve RCI certification

The Recycling Certification Institute (RCI), headquartered in Sacramento, California, has granted two facilities RCI certification. 

The facilities are MCS Recycling, a Seattle-based construction site recycling company, and Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS), a Chicago-based provider of waste, recycling and portable services solutions. 

RCI says its certification process is a rigorous process where facilities’ recycling operations are audited by third-party evaluators, ensuring their data is accurate, transparent and reliable according to the institute’s protocols and standards. 

“We are thrilled to continue growing the number of RCI certified facilities across the United States,” says Randy Wolf, RCI chief operating officer. “Verifiable recycling of mixed construction materials and demolition debris is essential to ensuring that all stake holders in the projects these facilities serve can be confident that the recycling levels they claim are correct and accurate.”  

Independent third-party evaluation is required for all facilities to ensure that the recovery and recycling rates stated in an RCI certification application are accurate. 

“Serving customers throughout the Seattle region, MCS has worked rigorously to build accurate and reliable processes to recycle the materials that enter our facility,” says Michael Sheldon, MCS Recycling CEO. “We’ve also worked to ensure we have reliable end markets for this material. Achieving the RCI certification allows our customers to trust that we are indeed helping them reach their sustainability objectives.” 

RCI oversees the national certification program to ensure integrity, transparency, accuracy and reliability in the recovery and recycling rates reported by certified C&D recycling facilities. 

“The Chicago market sets a high standard,” says LRS CEO Matt Spencer. “Many of our customers are working toward important circularity and sustainability goals in their construction projects. Achieving RCI certification for our California Avenue facility gives them confidence that the diversion data we provide is verified and accurate.”