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(Recycling International) --
A joint-venture PET recycling plant that Coca-Cola Co. opened with great pride
two years ago in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, has been closed down,
according to a report in the specialist publication PlasticsNews.
United Resource Recovery Corp. reportedly shut in the first week of March
and all 50 of the factory’s workers were laid off, with virtually the entire
office staff laid off shortly afterwards. In addition, John Burgess, President
of Coca-Cola Recycling, has allegedly been placed on indefinite leave.
According to the PlasticsNews report, sources are claiming only around 1
million pounds of recycled PET from the Spartanburg plant - equivalent to only a
fraction of the plant’s nameplate capacity of 56 million pounds - actually wound
up back in PET bottles.
mrcplast.com
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