{"id":1614,"date":"2011-08-24T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensobottles.com\/blog\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2011-08-24T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:00:22","slug":"coke-bottle-recycling-plant-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Coke bottle Recycling Plant reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embattled Coke Bottle Recycling Plant Reopens<\/span><\/h2>\n
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The troubled Coca-Cola joint-venture recycling plant in Spartanburg, S.C., is set to reopen today after being shuttered by the company in March.<\/p>\n

But Coke is considering selling its 49 percent stake in the plant, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

Coke and its partner in the factory, United Resource Recovery Corp. LLC, closed the factory down earlier this year<\/a> to restructure the plant and improve the quality of the plastic being produced. All 50 factory workers and most of the plant\u2019s office staff were laid off when the factory closed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are restarting the plant,\u201d said Carlos Gutierrez, president and CEO of URRC, PlasticsNews.com reports. \u201cWe feel pretty good on the results from our retooling efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the last half-year the Spartanburg team has been trying to more efficiently recycle old bottles into food-grade resin and correct certain operational problems. Prior to the fix, certain lightweight bottles had a habit of flying off the production line, Plasticsnews reports.<\/p>\n

On reopening, the plant is likely to process half the amount of bottles it was originally designed to handle, the Wall Street Journal reports.<\/p>\n

The plant, once described as the world\u2019s largest plastic bottle-to-bottle recycling complex, opened in 2009. It was supposed to produce 100 million pounds of recycled plastic when fully operational, or about two billion 20-ounce Coke bottles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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