Evolving with the food-supply industry
With the technology, nationwide reach and scale to service national and local grocers, we are your trusted recycling partner in managing food-safe packaging.
Food-safe packaging presents a unique challenge to the recycling industry, but International Paper Recycling has evolved with the industry. We also have the transportation scale to service vast networks of and distribution centers common to national and regional grocery chains.
Benefits
- Experience with food-safe packaging materials
- Compactor services
- Behind store / flat-bed services
- Aggregation at distribution centers
- Flexible scheduling to accommodate seasonal fluctuations
- Extended service hours to accommodate dock availability
- Non-fiber recycling options, including plastics and pallets
- Monthly, certified volume reports
- Supplier Capital Program to finance the balers, air systems and compactors
- Optional baling wire supply
- Accurate, timely recycling reporting to meet state reporting requirements
- Optional weekend / same day service
- Avoid landfill and contribute to the circular economy of fiber-based products
Cardboard Recycling Challenge for Fast-Growing Healthy Foods Supermarket
Sustainable packaging is a key part of this grocery client’s mission and brand. Soon after its founding, this fast-growing grocery retailer began relying on International Paper for its cardboard recycling program. Now the fastest-growing retail grocery chain in the U.S., IP scaled up its recycling services, reducing single-store hauling to multiple daily truckloads at their distribution centers.
National Grocery Retail Chain Forms Strategic Recycling Relationship with International Paper
This national grocery retail giant expanded rapidly through multiple acquisitions, resulting in mounting volumes of recycling material across 40-plus distribution centers, and in smaller amounts at individual store locations across the United States. Finding a reliable partner to recycle cardboard volumes large and small, in a range of markets, with comprehensive data reports, became mission-critical. IP had the scale and reach to handle it.