Drive Sustainability and Profit Through Smarter Materials Processing
Lakeside 360 Partners transforms complex recycling challenges into competitive advantages.
Led by industry veteran Bob Render, we deliver integrated strategies that optimize resource management, boost operational efficiency, and unlock the full financial potential of your circular economy initiatives.
ABOUT
LAKESIDE 360 PARTNERS
What We Do: We work across mechanical and advanced recycling platforms to source post-industrial and post-consumer feedstocks, and help you evaluate what meets your technical and quality specifications and economics. We also formulate renewable-content composites, expanding material options while reducing carbon impacts and volatile virgin markets.
We Focus on Supply: We help build resilient supply chains, qualify partners, improve collection and processing systems, and create repeatable pathways to reintroduce materials into production.
Our Approach: Hands-on support across waste characterization, vendor evaluation, system design, equipment recommendations, training, and program development.
Your Outcomes: Higher recovery, tighter specs, lower total cost, and real business value.
Robert Render
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Founder & CEO
Bob advises recyclers, manufacturers, healthcare institutions, industrial clients, and private equity firms on improving material performance — building more efficient operations.
He has over 40 years of leadership in recycling and circular economy strategy, starting in his family's scrap metal business. He has built some of the industry's most recognized companies along the way.
— Bob co-founded Maine Plastics, growing it into one of North America's largest plastic recyclers.
— He founded A Greener Solution to deliver landfill avoidance and recycling programs for Fortune 500 manufacturers across consumer, medical, and industrial sectors.
— Following its acquisition by Casella Waste Systems, he served as Director of Resource Solutions.
— His most recent in-house role was Business Development Manager for Sustainability at Ravago.
Today, through Lakeside 360 Partners, he helps clients turn complex materials challenges into practical, profitable solutions—drawing on four decades of hands-on experience across the entire recycling value chain.
Elevate your material performance and bottom line. Contact Bob today.
SOLUTIONS
Lakeside 360 Partners delivers comprehensive, integrated solutions in recycling, resource management, and operational improvement to help businesses maximize sustainability and financial performance.
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● Waste characterization and recycling feasibility assessments
● Vendor evaluation and selection
● Program design, implementation planning, and training
● Equipment selection and optimization
● Maximizing the value of recyclables
● Closed-loop program development
● Secure product destruction and brand protection
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● Plastics & metals recycling plants
● Plant layout & system design
● Healthcare and lab facilities
● Warehouse/DC recycling (in-house)
● In-plant integrated systems
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● Lean manufacturing for recycling operations
● Resource management strategies to boost efficiency
● Market-share and program development
● Operational improvements aligned with sustainability goals
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● Post-industrial & post-consumer plastics
● Ferrous & non-ferrous metals
● Organics, chemicals & rubber
● Obsolete inventories & insurance salvage
● Recycled feedstock sourcing & evaluation
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● Waste & recycling operations analysis
● Baseline cost & revenue evaluation
● Raw material substitution strategies
● Recycled vs. virgin material evaluation
● Internal vs. external sourcing opportunities
● Participation on acquisition & sales project teams
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