With locations close by West Coast Ports, Green Planet 21 uses export markets to full advantage. Here, Ben Sparks speaks about transportation efficiencies and volumes of cardboard and paper and plastics at high volumes.

While wild horses roam and graze east of Reno in Nevada, a new industrial economy develops. Green Planet 21’s founder and CEO Steve Sutta describes the goal of helping companies handle and recycle scrap materials in the most sustainable and economically viable way.

Steve Sutta on recycling cardboard. U.S. cardboard has strong long fibers because it begins as 65% virgin fibers from pulp mixed with 35% recycled fibers. Cardboard boxes can be used multiple times. After that, they can be recycled multiple times. U.S. cardboard that is clean is in demand around the world because of its quality

Individual collectors of old corrugated containers add to the tonnage supplied by corporate clients.  They deliver scrap cardboard in trade for cash. Lately, this amounts to 100 tons a day.

Green Planet 21’s largest plant and corporate offices are now more energy efficient. Solar panels supply all energy needs for the shredding and baling operations as well as powering the offices.

Ben Sparks walks us through a secure product destruction for collectibles. This service protects the brand associated with the product. Sometimes your company needs to be really sure that your goods are kept out of any market place. Sometimes you need secure product destruction

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Every year, the IRS shreds paper tax documents that are five years old. In Texas, this means boxed old documents arrive by the truckload. There, they are shredded inside a secure facility then shipped to a paper mill where they become new tissue products.

Visit a secure indoor shredding and recycling facility. Watch a truck return from collecting paper documents around Salt Lake City all day. The shredded paper is commingled with additional paper and shredded two more times. It is finally baled and shipped by rail to a paper mill. Tons of used office paper is then made…