DS Smith Pennsylvania Recycling Plant Celebrated First Anniversary

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): DS Smith- the global packaging and recycling firm is celebrating the first anniversary of its operations at the Reading, Pennsylvania paper recycling plant. The location is being considered unique, mainly due to the proximity of three of the company’s facilities in Reading- the recycling plant, paper mill and packaging manufacturing facility.

According to company new release, the three plants supported nearly 300 jobs during the past year. The recycling facility processed nearly 20,000 tons of fiber, whereas the paper mill consumed around 240,000 tons of recovered fiber, mainly old corrugated containers (OCC). It must be noted that the recycling facility has the capacity to process more than 36,000 tons of OCC per year.

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The recycling plant takes scrap paper and cardboard as feedstock and compresses them into bales. These bales are then sent to the paper mill, where they are processed into the recycled-content paper, which in turn are used by the nearby packaging facility. The corrugated packaging facility also accepts recovered paper from local distribution centers, packaging facilities, retailers and print shops.