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Closing the Loop
in Industry — Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Length: 3 minutes
The Westvaco Corporation saved its Tyrone, Pennsylvania plant from
financial disaster with closed-loop recycling. In closed-loop recycling,
a company turns its own trash back into materials it can use. Westvaco
recycles undeliverable mail from the U.S. Postal Service into envelopes
and other paper goods, and sells them back to the Postal Service.
This change made good business sense, because it gave the Westvaco
plant a certain source of raw materials and a certain market for
its products.
Produced by the Environmental Fund for Pennsylvania as part of the
GreenWorks for Pennsylvania television show entitled, "Buy
Recycled."
Learn More:
 Pennsylvania
Resources Council
Pennsylvania's
Recycling Page
Greenline
Paper Company
Montgomery
County MD Recycling Page
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