Abitibi establishes partnership with Houston, local grocer.Abitibi-Consolidated, headquartered in Montreal, held a press conference Oct. 9 to introduce a new partnership program among Abitibi-Consolidated, the city of Houston, and H-E-B, a Texas-based grocery store chain. Through the program, the papermaker will place 84 containers at 28 H-E-B stores in the Greater Houston Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown is a 10-county metropolitan area defined by the Office of Management and Budget. It is located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas. region. Through the partnership, the first of its kind for Abitibi-Consolidated, the company will place its containers at the grocery stores for the collection of paper, plastic, aluminum and metals. Abitibi-Consolidated will collect and weigh the recycled materials and directly pay the local affiliates of Keep Texas Beautiful based on the company's per-weight pay scale. "Abitibi-Consolidated is dedicated to making recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. a part of everyone's daily routine," says Sylvian syl·vi·an adj. Relating to or described by Franciscus Sylvius (Franz de la Boö; 1614-1672), German-born Dutch physician and anatomist, or Jacobus Sylvius (Jaques Dubois; 1478-1555), French anatomist. Yves-Longval, Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Division VR "By offering collection containers at participating H-E-B store locations, we are providing an easy and convenient option for citizens in the Greater Houston region to drop off their recyclables." Abitibi-Consolidated has been involved in Houston's recycling program since 1992, when it started an exclusive agreement to sort, process and recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. materials collected from residents via the city's curbside curb·side n. 1. The side of a pavement or street that is bordered by a curb. 2. A sidewalk. adj. Located, operating, or occurring at or along the sidewalk or curb: recycling program. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Materials collected from recycling containers will be taken to Abitibi-Consolidated's Houston-based materials recovery facility A materials recovery facility or materials reclamation facility (MRF -- pronounced "murf") is a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-user manufacturers. for sorting, processing and end-user markets. |
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