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Article: Cash from trash goes back to the workers.(strategies: Hoffer Plastics Corp.)
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- Plastics Technology
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- March 1, 2008
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Until last November, custom injection molder Hoffer Plastics Corp. in South Elgin, Ill., spent $1000 a month to have its plant waste dumped in a landfill. Much of it was plastics scrap from molding at the 372,000-sq-ft plant. "We sent about 150,000 lb of plastic to the landfill annually," says Gretchen Hoffer Farb, director of supply-chain management. But a new in-house recycling initiative directed by Farb yielded quick and dramatic results. The company redirected 60,000 lb of material from the landfill in November, and reclaimed 30,000 lb the following month. "In December and January we did not send any plastic to a landfill," says Farb. Instead of paying to have the ...
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