North Americans are the world's largest waste generators. Residential recycling programs allows the transformation of 15 % of the waste stream into reusable products. It's good but not sufficient!

With waste reduction objectives greater than 50 %, new measures are required. The obvious solution is residential collection of organic waste, but for what additional cost?

Markland wants to make a major contribution in the process of waste reduction by developing targeted products which will provide flexibility and efficiency to waste managers.