Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 10/24/18

Smithfield Foods announced a partnership with waste services provider Waste Connections to create a recycling operation that processes materials specifically from food production facilities. 

The company is calling the project a key step toward achieving zero-waste-to-landfill status across its North Carolina processing facilities. It is part of Smithfield’s companywide sustainability initiative to reduce solid waste to landfills 10 percent by 2020 across all locations and its goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25 percent by 2025 throughout its supply chain.

Waste Connections’ investment in the recycling facility will play a major role in assisting Smithfield’s Tar Heel, Clinton, Wilson, and Kinston locations in reaching their environmental targets of eliminating waste to landfills, Smithfield said.

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