Junk Rescue attended an open house today at Sonoco's Charlotte Recycling Center. Sonoco, one of the largest global packaging companies, just completed an expansion of their recycling facility located at 3901 Barringer Drive. They will now be able to process even larger volumes of recycled materials, including glass, plastic, and metal containers.
The $2 million expansion takes the Charlotte facility to approximately 24,000 square feet while adding state-of-the-art sorting and baling equipment. In addition, the center's yard space has been redesigned to improve traffic flow and unloading at the facility. Sonoco's Charlotte facility used to only accept and process corrugated cardboard and other grades of paper products. As of Monday, they will now be able to accept plastic, glass, and metal containers mixed in with paper and cardboard. Through a material sorting process, they will be able to separate all of the materials from each other before shipping it to their different packaging centers. This makes Sonoco the first zero sort recycling facility in the Charlotte region.
http://www.sonoco.com/sonoco
http://www.sonoco.com/sonoco
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