ReSource Waste Services facility achieves RCI certification

Albany, New York-based ReSource Waste Services LLC has announced its Lewiston construction and demolition (C&D) recycling facility has been certified by the Recycling Certification Institute (RCI), Sacramento, California.

The RCI certification was based on a rigorous evaluation of the facility’s processes and protocols, performed by an independent third party, which also verified the integrity of the facility’s recovery and recycling reports. ReSource Waste Services’ Lewiston facility is Maine’s largest C&D processing facility, processing about 180,000 tons of C&D in 2023.

The Lewiston facility is the only C&D processing facility in Maine to receive RCI certification, according to the release. It’s one of only two facilities in New England to achieve the certification, with the other being ReSource Waste Services’ Roxbury, Massachusetts, facility, which achieved RCI certification in 2018.

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“We are very pleased to have achieved this certification for the Lewiston facility,” says Jack Canty, president and COO of ReSource Waste Services. “This certification is important to many of the contractors who deliver C&D waste to the facility. If a contractor is working on a project that is seeking LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] green-building certification, the contractor will earn credit toward that certification by delivering the C&D generated by the project to an RCI-certified facility such as ReSource Lewiston.”

LEED construction projects, certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, are required to meet minimum recycling rates for their C&D waste.

“We are proud to play a part in our region’s progress toward sustainable construction and development,” Canty says. “Verified sustainability is becoming more and more important to project developers, architects, environmental groups and government agencies.”

Stephen Bantillo, executive director of RCI, says the institute’s national certification program ensures integrity, transparency, accuracy and reliability in the recovery and recycling reports of participating C&D recycling facilities. He said RCI used a rigorous, open and comprehensive process for developing its protocols, with a primary focus on accurate recycling accounting to ensure the recovery and recycling reports issued by certified facilities are real, verifiable, reproducible and reasonable.