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Dart Container Corp.’s New U.S. Line of Stock Printed Foam Cups
Extend Company’s Efforts to Showcase “Green” Benefits of Foam
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Foam Recycling Earth Week Open House
MASON, MI (April 20, 2010) Dart Container Corporation, with more than 1,000 local employees, is holding an open house at its post-consumer foam collection facility in Mason to celebrate Earth Week and educate the community about the recyclability of foam (often improperly called “Styrofoam,” a registered trademark of the Dow Chemical Company).Saturday, April 24, 2010
Media & Public: Tours @ 11 a.m.
Open House: 10 a.m. to noon
Dart’s Public Foam Recycling Drop Off, Dart Container Corporation
432 Hogsback Road, Mason, Mich., 48854
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North Carolina Welcomes Free Public Foam Recycling Drop-Off Facility
Dart Container of North Carolina encourages residents and organizations near Randolph County to divert foam from landfills at its free foam collection center so the foam can be recycled
RANDLEMAN, NC (February 25, 2010) Foam recycling has arrived in Randolph County. Dart Container of North Carolina today unveiled its latest post-consumer foam collection site in Randleman.
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The Foam Revolution
Food and Drink Quarterly, Volume: 6 | Issue: 1Think that by choosing paper cups over polystyrene foam cups you’re saving the environment? Well, you’re not. And Dart Container Corporation has the environmental facts to prove it as the company continues to advance a greener way of doing business, reports Lorie Greenspan. Press Release (PDF)
Free Public Foam Recycling Drop-Off Facility Arrives in Texas
WAXAHACHIE, TX (February 11, 2010) – Foam recycling has arrived in Ellis County. Dart Container of Texas today unveiled in Waxahachie its latest post-consumer foam collection site. The free drop-off will pioneer a new way for Texas residents, businesses and organizations to recycle foam with the number 6 on it.
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Building a foam mountain at Westwood
By News-Sentinel Staff Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Westwood Elementary School students to create a mountain of foam nearly 10 feet high Friday morning. The Recycling Club gathered foam to help the environment and educate the public.
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Dart Container Corporation Brings Free Public Foam Recycling Drop-Off Facility to Clarke County, MS
QUITMAN, MS (December 10, 2009) – Foam recycling has arrived in Clarke County. Dart Container Company of Mississippi today unveiled in Quitman its latest post-consumer foam collection site – the first in the state. As one of a growing number of regions to be equipped with foam recycling infrastructure, the free drop-off will pioneer a new way for Mississippi residents, businesses and organizations to recycle foam with the number 6 on it. Press Release (PDF)
Illinois Introduces Foam Recycling Public Drop-Off Facility in Aurora
AURORA, IL (November 12, 2009) – Foam recycling has arrived in Kane County. Dart Container Corporation of Illinois today unveiled in Aurora its latest post–consumer foam recycling drop–off site – the first in the state. As one of a growing number of regions to be equipped with foam recycling infrastructure, the free drop–off will pioneer a new way for Illinois residents, businesses and organizations to use and reuse foam with the number 6 on it. Press Release (PDF)
Washington Debuts Public Foam Recycling Drop-Off Facility in Thurston County
TUMWATER, WA (November 5, 2009) – Foam recycling has arrived in Thurston County. In celebration of its 25th anniversary of manufacturing in Washington, Dart Container Corporation, in conjunction with Thurston County Solid Waste, today unveiled in Tumwater its latest post-consumer foam recycling drop-off site. As one of a growing number of regions to be equipped with foam recycling infrastructure, the free drop-off will pioneer a new way for Washington residents, businesses and organizations to use and reuse foam with the number 6 on it.
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Aflac Headquarters Debuts Foam Recycling, Sets Bar for Other Businesses and Institutions
COLUMBUS, GA (November 2, 2009) – Aflac’s international headquarters has teamed up with Michigan-based Dart Container Corp. to pioneer a new way for Georgia businesses and other large corporations to recycle foam as part of food-service operations.
As part of Dart’s CARE (Cups Are REcyclable) Program, Aflac is leasing a foam densifier – a machine designed to compact a mound of foam food containers and trays the size of a small car into the size of a five-gallon bucket. The CARE Program helps large operators using foam food service products separate foam from other products, consolidate collected material, and have it recycled. Recycled foam food service products can be reprocessed into building insulation, plastic lumber, and many other products.
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Kentucky Debuts Public Foam Recycling Drop-Off Facility in Hart County
HORSE CAVE, KY (October 8, 2009) – Dart Container Corporation today unveiled its latest post-consumer foam recycling drop-off site in Horse Cave, Ky. As one of a growing number of regions to be equipped with foam recycling infrastructure, the free drop-off will pioneer a new way for Kentucky residents, businesses and organizations, such as local Mammoth Cave National Park, to use and reuse foam with the number 6 on it. This is one of the state’s first public site to accept foam food service containers, including foam cups, plates, take-out containers, egg cartons, as well as shaped or molded foam often used to package electronics. This effort, Dart’s 8th drop-off location in the country, will divert foam from area landfills and allow it to be recycled into new products such as base boards and moldings.
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Maryville Academy Debuts Foam Recycling in Illinois,
Sets Bar for Other Schools, Businesses and Institutions in State
DES PLAINES, Ill. (September 29, 2009) – Maryville Academy, a childcare organization serving children and families in need, has teamed up with Dart Container Corporation in a commitment to Sustain an eco-friendly 24-hour dining service and divert foam from landfills. The effort launched today will divert nearly 700,000 pieces of foam from area landfills each year.
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Lansing's Annual Capitol City River Run Goes Green
LANSING, MI (September 25, 2009) – Mason’s Dart Container is the sole provider of the annual Capitol City River Run’s foam cups, which will be collected on-site for recycling. Sunday’s race is taking its place among already established marquee marathon and half-marathon events across the U.S. in setting a new standard in reducing its environmental impact.
Dart is contributing more than 6,000 cups and collecting the cups to be recycled at its plant in Mason, where they accept used foam products for recycling at no cost to the public. Foam is ground up, converted to plastic resin pellets and sold for reuse as an ingredient in non-food service products, including picture frames or decorative moulding. Press Release (PDF)
Employee's of Dart's Lodi, California facility participate in the Great American River Clean-Up
CARMICHAEL, CA (September 19, 2009) – This year, in conjunction with the American River Parkway Foundation and Keep California Beautiful, Dart invited the public to drop-off their clean, bagged foam food service containers for free at the Great American River Clean-Up. Applicable items included foam cups, plates, clamshells, and shape molded foam packaging, often used to package electronics. The Dart drop-off took place on Saturday, Sept. 19 on the north side of the river at William Pond Recreation Area. Press Release (PDF)
Dart Container Corporation Provides and Recycles Cups Used at the Modesto Midnight Half Marathon
By Chrissy Kadleck, Waste & Recycling News: August 31, 2009
MODESTO, CA (August 8, 2009) – The inaugural Modesto Midnight Half Marathon hit the ground running as a sustainable race hoping to leave a smaller footprint in the California valley.
Tony Vice, race owner and owner of Fleet Feet Sports Stockton, teamed up with sponsor Dart Container Corp., the sole provider of 6,000 recyclable foam cups for the Aug. 8 race. Press Release (PDF)
Michigan State University Incoming Students Go ‘Spartan’ Green On Move-In Day
Dart Container Corporation provides on-site collection of polystyrene packaging foam for recycling
as students move into the dorms.
LANSING, MI (August 27, 2009) – Like many campuses across the U.S., Michigan State University’s (MSU) Office of Campus Sustainability is helping the school set a new standard in reducing its environmental footprint by partnering with a local company to recycle leave-behind foam on move-in day. Press Release (PDF)
Dart Offers Foam Cup Recycling to California Small Business Operators
CALIFORNIA (June 16, 2009) – Recycla-Pak”, a foam cup recycling program for small businesses, is now available in California from Dart Container Corporation through its network of wholesalers. Recycla-Pak provides a special bin for collecting used foam cups that, once full, can be sealed and shipped back for recycling of the cups, freight prepaid. Press Release (PDF)
Dart Makes School Lunch Tray Recycling Possible in California.
STOCKTON, CA (May 28,2009)– A Stockton elementary school’s year-long effort to recycle cafeteria polystyrene lunch trays to save money and teach students and the community an important lesson about sustainability earned tributes from school officials and California lawmakers.
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Dart Container Corporation unveils its new polystyrene foam recycling drop-off site in Corona, CA.
CORONA, CA, (October 24, 2008) – This event was attended by Corona Mayor Jeff Miller, Corona City Councilmember Eugene Montanez, Keep California Beautiful President Kris McNamara, and by representatives of State Senator Jim Battin and State Assemblyman John Benoit. Dozens of local residents brought loads of polystyrene foam during the event. After Corona Mayor Jeff Miller presented Dart with a key to the City of Corona, Dart offered a tour of its collection facility that included a demonstration of its proprietary foam densifier. Press Release (PDF)
Dart Container Unveils New Polystyrene Foam Recycling Drop-off Site.
LODI, CA (October 3, 2008) – Dart Container Corporation opened its newest post-consumer polystyrene foam (commonly known as Styrofoam®, a registered trademark of The Dow Chemical Company), drop-off site at its Lodi, CA plant. This is the San Joaquin Valley’s first such facility and it accepts foam food service containers, including foam cups, foam plates, foam clamshells, and shape or molded foam packaging, often used to package electronics.
Ribbon Cutting from left to right: Christine Flowers Ewing (Executive Director of Keep California Beautiful), Zion (Timbron), Martha Ramirez (Lodi Plant), Ron Crookham (Lodi Plant Manager), Michael Westerfield (Dart Container Corporation), Lisa Barry (CIWMB), David Firestone (Timbron), Jennifer Cariglio (City of Tracy), George Wall (DCSC Regional Sales Manager), and Denise Warmerdam (Supervisor Ken Vogel's office).
Michael Westerfield, of Dart Container Corporation and Denise Warmerdam, representative from Supervisor Ken Vogel's office.
This event was attended by representatives of U.S. Congressman Jerry McNerney and of the San Joaquin County Supervisor Ken Vogel. Christine Flowers-Ewing, Executive Director of Keep California Beautiful noted “To deal with the problem at hand; Keep California Beautiful has been encouraging communities and industry partners to find better ways to use less, recycle more, and get involved as part of a solution. By providing a regional collection point in San Joaquin County, Dart as a manufacturer of the product, is contributing to the solution.” Lisa Barry of the California Integrated Waste Management Board also acknowledged the leadership role that Dart is taking to help develop the expanded polystyrene collection infrastructure statewide and said “Dart’s public-private partnership is commendable.”
After a presentation from Frank Ferral of the Green Team San Joaquin, Dart offered a tour of its recycling facility that included a demonstration of its proprietary foam densifier. The densifier compacted a pile of foam the size of a car into a cylinder the size of a 5 gallon bucket. The event concluded with a barbeque.
This is Dart’s sixth company owned drop-off facility. Dart Container Corporation, the world’s largest maker of foam cups, is a leading manufacturer of quality single-use products for the foodservice, retail, and food packaging industries. Dart strives to produce high-quality, cost-effective products in a manner sensitive to environmental concerns. Dart has received awards and commendations from McDonald’s Corporation, the State of California Environmental Protection Agency Integrated Waste Management Board and the State of Illinois House of Representatives for this work.
