In early 2020, Sunset Foods learned that their packaging supply partner could not verify the end usage of the plastic bags that customers where dropping in the recycle bins in their stores. With this knowledge, the plastic bag recycling program had to be put on hold. Since that time, they have been striving to re-introduce this service. They had yet to learn how difficult it would be to find a way to collect plastic bags and guarantee that they end up as recycled and reused material and not simply in a landfill. “We spoke to everyone we could when trying to find a solution,” said Sarah Hanlon, Director of Marketing for Sunset Foods. “Wholesale vendor partners, garbage companies, local green initiatives, and sustainability boards in our communities. Either they couldn’t offer the service or prove where these bags end up.”
In early 2020, Sunset Foods learned that their packaging supply partner could not verify the end usage of the plastic bags that customers where dropping in the recycle bins in their stores. With this knowledge, the plastic bag recycling program had to be put on hold. Since that time, they have been striving to re-introduce this service. They had yet to learn how difficult it would be to find a way to collect plastic bags and guarantee that they end up as recycled and reused material and not simply in a landfill. “We spoke to everyone we could when trying to find a solution,” said Sarah Hanlon, Director of Marketing for Sunset Foods. “Wholesale vendor partners, garbage companies, local green initiatives, and sustainability boards in our communities. Either they couldn’t offer the service or prove where these bags end up.”
Aargus has been in business for nearly over sixty years and recycling plastic for nearly fifty. Sunset Foods is excited to partner with another family-owned local company passionate about its work. With a facility that sorts and recycles plastic into post-consumer use trash bags right here in Illinois, Aargus can be relied upon to do as they say. With an entirely closed-loop process from a single provider, Sunset Foods is confident that with Aargus Plastics, they are again offering a valuable service to their communities.
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