Sonoco to Launch Paper Cup Recycling at Hartsville Mill

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Sonoco announced that it has decided to expand residential recycling of paper cups to its mill in Hartsville, South Carolina. The company will explore post-consumer recovery and recycling opportunities for paper cups in bales of mixed paper, which will be used as raw materials to produce new paperboard.

All of the company’s paper mills in the U.S. have validated that they can accept rigid paper cans in bales of mixed paper from MRFs. The latest announcement by the company extends acceptance to paper cups at the Hartsville plant. Meantime, additional testing is in progress to expand cup recycling to all Sonoco mills that use residential mixed paper.

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The Hartsville mill will now have the capability to process mixed paper stream containing paper cup or EnviroCan paper container. The move is considered as one of many steps the company is taking to further its commitment to responsible material sourcing at its manufacturing operations across the U.S.

Elizabeth Rhue, Vice President of Global Environmental, Sustainability, and Centralized Technology at Sonoco said that the company has decided to further demonstrate its capability to recycle other similar polycoated fiber-based containers too, after validating that its mills could recycle EnviroCan paper containers in residential mixed paper stream.