Earth First Aid owner Scott Berens bought the building at 458 Charles St., on Dec. 16 and will be taking over operations from Republic Services, which operated the facility for nearly 30 years.

“There’s a lot of competition in the Billings market for the recycling side of it, so we decided to partner and sell the facility and they’ll continue to process all of our recyclables that we haul in from customers,” municipal service manager Chad Bauer of Republic Services said.