Food-safe packaging presents a unique challenge to the recycling industry, but ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Recycling has evolved with the industry. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ also have the transportation scale to service vast networks of and distribution centers common to national and regional grocery chains.
Benefits
- Experience with food-safe packaging materials
- Compactor services
- Behind store / flat-bed services
- Aggregation at distribution centers
- Flexible scheduling to accommodate seasonal fluctuations
- Extended service hours to accommodate dock availability
- Non-fiber recycling options, including plastics and pallets
- Monthly, certified volume reports
- Supplier Capital Program to finance the balers, air systems and compactors
- Optional baling wire supply
- Accurate, timely recycling reporting to meet state reporting requirements
- Optional weekend / same day service
- Avoid landfill and contribute to the circular economy of fiber-based products
Cardboard Recycling Challenge for Fast-Growing Healthy Foods Supermarket
Sustainable packaging is a key part of this grocery client’s mission and brand. Soon after its founding, this fast-growing grocery retailer began relying on ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ for its cardboard recycling program. Now the fastest-growing retail grocery chain in the U.S., IP scaled up its recycling services, reducing single-store hauling to multiple daily truckloads at their distribution centers.
National Grocery Retail Chain Forms Strategic Recycling Relationship with ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
This national grocery retail giant expanded rapidly through multiple acquisitions, resulting in mounting volumes of recycling material across 40-plus distribution centers, and in smaller amounts at individual store locations across the United States. Finding a reliable partner to recycle cardboard volumes large and small, in a range of markets, with comprehensive data reports, became mission-critical. IP had the scale and reach to handle it.