Business View Magazine | March 2019

119 coln, but First Star’s system for material pro- cessing is much more sophisticated. They pull in material from a wide region, that includes the city of Omaha and the metropolitan area, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, even as far away as Montana and Wyoming. Dow Chemicals started the Hefty Energy Bag program in California as a pilot, and FirstStar was the first MRF in the country to permanent- ly add the program to its offering. They’ve now been doing it for over two years. Residents buy