Please, keep it green

New bins installed downtown are being used for some not-so-recyclable goods

JANUARY 11, 2010 11:01 a.m. (0)

Area artists competed to put their work on the sides of eight new recycling bins in downtown Greenville.

Now, they want to people to let people know what to put in them.  Continue reading...

 

Company works in bits and pieces

This scrap metal company is taking the Upstate global

AUGUST 18, 2011 10:29 a.m. (0)

Kamal Desor was a dumpster diver with a keen eye for valuable metals and finding places to sell stuff, talents that landed him in prison as the fence for a gang of thieves.

That was all before turning 17.

Today, at 32, he is co-owner with Rodney Adams of Adams Scrap Recycling, a multi-million dollar business with an entry into the global recycling market.  Continue reading...

 

Fiber Options

This Upstate company is turning bottles into seats

JANUARY 5, 2012 1:33 p.m. (0)

Ford may sell fewer than 10,000 of its new Focus all-electric sedans this year, but the car’s seat covers made entirely from recycled materials represents a major coup for Upstate’s Sage Automotive Interiors.

With just two years as a stand-alone company but decades of environmentally friendly DNA from Milliken Co., Sage is positioned as the industry leader in using recycled materials for seat cloth for cars and trucks.

The Focus EV’s seat covers originate with waste polyester from Sage’s Avalon plant in Toccoa, Ga. The waste is sent to a Unifi Inc. plant in North Carolina where it is combined with recycled plastic bottles to make REPREVE, a branded synthetic.  Continue reading...

 

Recycling, it makes cents

Company has cut 36 million pounds of materials bound for landfills

JANUARY 7, 2012 1:37 p.m. (0)

Greenville’s International Automotive Components Group plant has lowered its cost for handling waste material from more than $20,000 per month to about $1,500 by going green.

“It’s good for the environment and the bottom line,” said Guy Current, plant manager. “Our line workers played a tremendous part in this and had input from the beginning.”

Companywide, since 2010, when the corporate fathers decided to start the green initiative the company has cut 36 million pounds of materials going to landfills.  Continue reading...