Grossman group opens paper recovery plant.The Grossman Group has opened a new paper recycling Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. facility in the Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. , area. The facility will service solid waste handlers handlers persons involved in the handling of, for example, circus animals. Includes grooms, milkers, herdsmen, strappers. Used mostly in referring to persons handling animals for show or auction. , as well as companies generating old corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. containers. The announcement follows two years of planning by the company and the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO SWACO Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (Grove City, OH) ). The new facility is located at an idled waste-to-energy plant. The company's new Fiber Recovery Facility is servicing haulers of commercial trash and private companies that generate scrap cardboard. "The Grossman Group's main objective is to remove as much waste from the waste stream and reclaim as much fiber as possible from loads that normally would be dumped in the Franklin County Franklin County is the name of 24 counties in the United States. All except Franklin County, Idaho are likely named for Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States. Landfill," says Steve Grossman, president of The Grossman Group. "As we focus on green business development in Columbus, it is great to see companies like The Grossman Group already creating jobs and improving recycling to keep material out of our landfill," says Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman Michael Coleman may mean:
Material processed at the facility comes from two main sources. One source is from existing and developing accounts of the Grossman Group and Universal Paper and Plastics Inc., the company picked by The Grossman Group to operate the facility. These commercial accounts may qualify for the 90 percent Cardboard Direct Account Program. The second is from accounts developed by SWACO that qualify for the Select Load Program, resulting in a reduction to tipping fees of up to 25 percent. "We are pleased to lease The Grossman Group this facility to continue the company's long history in the Columbus area," Mike Long, executive director of SWACO, says. "It will enable them to grow the business and help SWACO as we continue to search for new ways to reduce the reliance on our Franklin County Landfill." The facility expects to recycle approximately 30,000 tons of paper per year. For the first three weeks of operation, the facility received 1.2 million pounds of material and trash, which it processed into 980,000 pounds of clean paper and shipped to paper mills throughout Ohio. The Grossman Group Inc. is a broker and service provider to the recycling and hauling industry |
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