iSustain offers recycling program for film producer

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based iSustain Recycling says it has partnered with Sigma Stretch Film to launch a new recycling initiative designed to benefit Sigma customers.

New Jersey-based Sigma Stretch Film manufactures and distributes stretch film products with a team of more than 450 employees and the capacity to produce more than 350,000 tons of plastic film products per year, according to Sigma.

Sigma says it “recognizes an opportunity to further support its customer base with cutting edge sustainability solutions.” Through its partnership with iSustain Recycling, Sigma says it will “help recycle those products responsibly and economically at the end of their life cycles.”

iSustain Recycling says it has designed recycling programs for stretch film, corrugated cores and dividers, Gaylord boxes and food waste. “iSustain Recycling excels at finding creative long-term solutions through reuse, recycling, alternative energy and/or advanced recycling,” the company states.

Sigma Stretch Film is part of other partnerships and initiatives including Operation Clean Sweep and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.

In its new partnership, Sigma Stretch Film will direct its customer recycling inquiries to iSustain Recycling, which says it will then “develop waste stream-optimizing recycling programs that are both efficient and cost-effective while also having a positive impact on the environment.”

iSustain adds, “The primary benefits to Sigma Stretch Film customers are cost savings, more sustainable business practices and removing hard-to-recycle items clogging up their workspaces.”

iSustain Recycling describes itself as being “certified Women’s owned and operated” by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and as already helping customers in the United States recycle more than 8,050 tons of plastic every year. The company says it specializes in recycling polyethylene, polypropylene, crosslinked, nonolefin and coated films, plus purges, pellets, rigid plastics, cardboard, Gaylord boxes, “super sacks,” pallets, corrugated cores and other materials.

* This article was edited Jan. 14 to correct the number of tons the company can produce from 35,000 to 350,000.