Sonoco Opens Local Recycling Plant
Posted by Chad Norman January 16th, 2008 .
On Monday, Sonoco opened a new 30,000 square foot recycling facility in North Charleston. I don’t know a ton about Sonoco, but this new facility will be used to collect, process, and recycle nearly 250 million pounds of material each year. Not only does Sonoco take sustainability seriously, they are closing the loop when it comes to recycling:
Sonoco, which processes and uses many of these recycled materials to produce recycled paperboard at its South Carolina paper mills, then uses that paperboard to produce new consumer and industrial packaging, making Sonoco one of the few cradle-to-cradle suppliers of packaging in the industry.
If you are interested in checking out the new facility, they are giving guided tours for the rest of this week. You can call 843.577.6840 to RSVP, or just show up at the open house on January 18th at 2 p.m.
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Great Blog I always have a good time reading it. It’d be great if someone knew about this site http://www.earthlab.com ? I have used their carbon calculator and it seems pretty legit? Has anyone else used it? They are partners with live earth and Al Gore so it must be pretty credible? If anyone else has done digging on this let me know. Oh and I got a score of 289 on their test…lower than the average in my state! Whoop whoop!
Is there any place in Charleston or the surrounding area that takes other recycling products that the County’s do not? (ie: #3,4,5,6)